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GnoMenu – Take 2

Since my last post about GnoMenu a lot has changed. Firstly, it is now up to version 2.5, and the last version I really messed with was version 1.6 or 1.7. I will be going over how to make the following: The Start Button — updated The Icons used in the Menu The Menu itself

Review 01: Calibre

Ah, calibre, where would I be without you right now? I do know my eBook library would be a complete mess. Let me back up… If you’ve been around the internet for a while, you know how easy it can be to develop a nice little library of eBooks on your computer of various formats.

Random Day

Going through my Google accounts I realized that I hadn’t plugged Google Analytics in here in a long time, so now I can get a better idea of where all my visitors are coming from. That’s all I really want to know. (Well, that and what OS and Browser they’re using.) In doing that I

New Look, New Start

LinuxGurl(dot)com will be turning 2 years old next month (on the 28th of March). Its amazing to think that it has been around this long. Yes, I am human and don’t update like I should, but I am going to try to do better. I am still for testing out new OSes via a virtual

Another Post About Conky

After switching around distros for a while, I think I shall stick with Fedora. The biggest change is using yum instead of apt. I’m tempted to created a script that says “hey she really meant yum this instead” but that requires some time. After playing around with wallpapers and configurations for conky that I didn’t

‘Tis the Season

‘Tis the season to relax and enjoy spending time with your family. If you feel the need, give gifts as well. I know that most everyone is feeling a pinch in their wallets, and its hard to be as giving as the commercials and shows tell us we should be. This is especially hard when

Karmic Slide-Show Breakdown

Yes, there has been a slide-show type wallpaper(s) for Linux for a while available over at gnome-look.org (Just search for animated under the wallpaper section). But now it comes as one of the options for Karmic (Ubuntu 9.10). The process is a simple one if you want to make your own. I will break down

Conky, revisited

With lots of googling and failed attempts, not quite right attempts, and then finnaly the product I was aiming at, I have my conky the way I have been wanting it for months. It consists of 11 different files with 1 calling them all together. (Yes, 12 different files, and my average CPU usage is

A Random Funny Geeky Thing

originally found here: http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Microsoft-Vissa,-Hey-Thats-Ours,–More-Support-Stories.aspx A few years ago, a common free email provider who we’ll call “Yooha” had an outage on one of their load balanced email servers. Since it was only a problem on accounts tied to that server (and because I was in the middle of a fairly time sensitive transaction), I thought

Adding Virtual Domains — The Easy Way (Ubuntu)

I wrote this script out of my need for a quick method of adding virtual domains. I hope you find this to be of great use. create a file named addomain sudo vim /usr/bin/adddomain Place this in your file: #!/bin/bash #Edit the following e-mail address: email="your@email.address" ipaddress=`ifconfig eth0 | grep inet | awk ‘{print $2}’