Jacob
I think we all can agree: Caps Lock is a useless key, and should be removed from keyboard models. Until that time comes, there is still a use you can assign to the massive spacetaker above Shift. It might renew your faith in typing.
Say you are working on a document that has a lot of trademark symbols. In many cases, you could just press Ctrl+Shift+U and then type 2122 …
PeterLast week, I covered how to use KGRUBEditor to re-order the boot menu you see at startup, so that dual boot users could move Windows to the top of the list if they would like.
It is also relatively simple, however, to manually reorder this menu by editing the configuration file of GRUB (that's the boot loader).
This tutorial will focus on Debian/Ubuntu, however these instructions should be able to …
Peter
Microblogging service Twitter is as popular as ever and is a great way of keeping in touch with your friends who also use the service.
Of course, the service is much more useful when you can quickly and easily access it to see what is going on and update your status. That makes dedicated Twitter 'clients' very popular.
KDE 4 features a new desktop shell named Plasma. Part of Plasma …
Peter
The Inquirer is reporting that in the UK, 2.8% of PCs are now preinstalled with Linux. That figure has multiplied more than 28 times since January 2007.
The number of machines shipped with Linux preloaded on them has multiplied a whopping 28 times since Microsoft launched its Vista operating system in January 2007.Sounds impressive, but Linux was starting from a rather small base in traditional sales channels: of all …