Remote printing at home via DropBox

June 26, 2011 Posted by

So, i want to often print things, however rarely am i at home to print, and by the time i get there i forget entirely about it. This is something i did one sunday evening to get printing on pretty much every device in the house to my home printer, at home or at work, […]

Finding and deleting duplicate files

October 20, 2010 Posted by

Okay, so you have a huge pile of mp3s and somehow managed to copy them repeatedly somewhere and now only want one copy of each? (hey! i do this all the time copying them from machine to machine!). Best way to check that they are “identical” is with md5sum. This is how i deal with […]

How to disable sleep or screen blank when closing laptop lids

September 18, 2010 Posted by

I have an awesome HDMI out on my laptop – works flawlessly on the TV. This is handy for watching movies and plugging into the big screen. problem is that I want to close the laptop lid, and that puts the laptop to sleep! I’m using Gnome, so this tutorial is specific for that. First […]