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Computers, software & technical stuff

Gingerbread: Google Getting Greedier

Posted on 07/11/2011 by freelander

(Or why Google starts sucking.) At the beginning of times, when Earth was created, Google was Good. They had the “do no harm” philosophy; you were totally free to use their services or not, and when using them, you weren’t … Continue reading →

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No icons in QT apps on Xfce

Posted on 28/05/2011 by freelander

. If you ever experience this problem: QT apps showing no icons in their menus when running in Xfce desktop, you can fix it issuing these commands on a console: gconftool-2 –type boolean –set /desktop/gnome/interface/buttons_have_icons true gconftool-2 –type boolean –set … Continue reading →

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How to login as root in Xfce

Posted on 21/05/2011 by freelander

. Log in as root in the Xfce environment is disabled by default. When I tried to google how to change this behaviour, I got lots of results, but useless, because though dozens of people had posted that same question … Continue reading →

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