Stop wpa-supplicant spamming your logs to death

This post applies to Kubuntu 14.10 running KDE 4.14.2, other DEs and Debain-derived distros almost certainly suffer the exact same issue.

Whilst looking through my syslog to figure out why a game was causing the entire laptop to lock-up (note to self: find a better alternative to “Ctrl-Alt-PrtSrc-REISUB”) I found a slew to bleatings from . . . → Read More: Stop wpa-supplicant spamming your logs to death

Troubles with KDE’s Muon package installer

The post relates to Kubuntu 14.10 running KDE 4.14.2

I use KDE as it’s the closest thing to GNOME 2, it has many great features, is the most configurable thing ever and is, despite what naysayers might think, not that memory hungry for a full DE (remember, unused RAM is wasted RAM). It unfortunately does . . . → Read More: Troubles with KDE’s Muon package installer

Android, HTC and CardDav contacts

CardDAV. Heard of it? It’s a standard way to transmit information about a contact back and forth. Name, Title, D.o.B etc. There no fixed list of attributes, so things are a bit more complex than they might first appear, but on the whole it works. It’s also a standard. An open standard. Anything that chooses . . . → Read More: Android, HTC and CardDav contacts

Recreating missing keyboard inidcator lights

Many laptops these days come without LEDs to indicate if “Caps Lock” or other lock keys are on. This saves the manufacturer about 0.001p per keyboard and allows them to wax lyrical about their new clean design and how the elegance of the implementation delivers the message of their core company culture (i.e. copy everything . . . → Read More: Recreating missing keyboard inidcator lights

4oD on Ubuntu (and related)

This fix works on Kubuntu 13.10 and mostly applies to distros that derive from Ubuntu 13.10 (e.g. Mint) when using Firefox. If you are having an issue with another distro, try their forums and if you find a working solution, do let us know in the comments.

If you try to use 4oD on a . . . → Read More: 4oD on Ubuntu (and related)