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		<title>Not all laptops are designed equal</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 01:16:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over time it is common for fans in laptops to become clogged with dust, fluff and even hair. The symptoms are usually a hotter laptop and a noisier fan that runs more frequently. The solution is to open up the laptop&#8217;s body in order to get at the fan and remove the crud with tweezers [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fitzcarraldoblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=18093477&#038;post=1157&#038;subd=fitzcarraldoblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ARTE Live Web videos</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 15:23:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Franco-German cultural Web site ARTE Live Web is an excellent resource for lovers of music (classical, jazz, alternative and World) and dance. The show videos at the site are enjoyable but unfortunately only viewable for a fixed period of time before the site removes them. Back in 2011 I wanted to download the video [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fitzcarraldoblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=18093477&#038;post=1108&#038;subd=fitzcarraldoblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Installing Dropbox in Gentoo running KDE</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 12:10:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fitzcarraldo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had never used Dropbox before and had no intention of doing so, but today a work colleague sent me some large files via Dropbox so I was forced to sign up. I tried to install Dropbox on my main laptop running Gentoo Linux and KDE but, for a well-known application, I had a surprising [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fitzcarraldoblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=18093477&#038;post=1067&#038;subd=fitzcarraldoblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Switching the display quickly between a laptop monitor and an external monitor or projector in Linux</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 09:33:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I connect my laptop to an external keyboard and an external monitor or projector in various offices and at home, and each of the monitors has a different resolution. Fn-F3 on my laptop keyboard allows me to toggle between monitors, but I want more control (including the ability to specify the resolution of the external [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fitzcarraldoblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=18093477&#038;post=1042&#038;subd=fitzcarraldoblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to prevent a USB mouse auto-suspending in Linux when a laptop&#8217;s power supply is disconnected</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 17:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fitzcarraldo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found that my USB mouse (and external USB keyboard) went to sleep when the mains power supply was disconnected from my laptop. This was annoying because I had to click a mouse button and wait a couple of seconds in order to wake up the mouse. You can see from the console output below [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fitzcarraldoblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=18093477&#038;post=1031&#038;subd=fitzcarraldoblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Setting the wireless regulatory domain in Linux on your laptop</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2013 01:54:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fitzcarraldo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I travel internationally and want to make sure that my laptop uses the legal wireless networking frequencies in the country I am visiting. In Linux, CRDA (Central Regulatory Domain Agent) is the udev helper used to communicate between userspace and the kernel, and it enables you to view and alter the wireless regulatory domain your [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fitzcarraldoblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=18093477&#038;post=1000&#038;subd=fitzcarraldoblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Converting ape music files to mp3 in Linux</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2013 18:52:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fitzcarraldo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had a file in the lossless ape (Monkey&#8217;s Audio) file format, and wanted to convert it to a .mp3 file so that I could play it on my portable mp3 player. As is usual in Linux, several alternative solutions exist, and I thought I&#8217;d try three of them for fun: shntool, ffmpeg and KDE&#8217;s [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fitzcarraldoblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=18093477&#038;post=979&#038;subd=fitzcarraldoblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Selecting different keyboard layouts in Xfce</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Dec 2012 21:07:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fitzcarraldo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my laptops running Xfce has a British English keyboard. However, I write in Portuguese and Spanish as well and so I need to be able to switch keyboard layouts. Therefore I added the three keyboard layouts by clicking on &#8216;Applications Menu&#8217; on the Xfce Panel, selecting &#8216;Settings&#8217; &#62; &#8216;Keyboard&#8217; and clicking on the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fitzcarraldoblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=18093477&#038;post=960&#038;subd=fitzcarraldoblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An easy way to edit the Xfce Application Menu</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 15:17:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fitzcarraldo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently installed Sabayon Linux with Xfce 4.10 on a couple of laptops. Being a long-time KDE user, I was surprised to find that Xfce does not provide a &#8216;native&#8217; easy way to edit the Xfce Application Menu. The Xfce Wiki page (Customize the Xfce menu) lists a protracted and complicated procedure for making changes [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fitzcarraldoblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=18093477&#038;post=945&#038;subd=fitzcarraldoblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s hear it for Konqueror</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2012 18:31:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fitzcarraldo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My browser of choice on the desktop has been Firefox for many years. Firefox uses the Gecko rendering engine. As a backup Web browser I use Konqueror but configured to use WebKit, rather than KHTML, as the rendering engine. I&#8217;ve tried Chromium, Opera, Midori, rekonq, SeaMonkey and a bunch of others, but always found them [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fitzcarraldoblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=18093477&#038;post=929&#038;subd=fitzcarraldoblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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