For second time in a week the numeric keypad on my keyboard stopped working under Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat). And since I had to, once again, Google the solution, I might as well post it here as a mental note-to-self: CTRL + SHIFT + NUMLOCK
Category Archives: I’m a geek
Webstats 2010, part two
February 8, 2011 – 23:30
Besides this weblog, I have this other website, which is basically something that started out quite innocently, and then got completely out of hand. I speak, of course, of The (almost) complete Meat Loaf and Jim Steinman lyric archive. Here is how that site did last year. In a word, compared to 2009, it was [...]
Webstats 2010
January 11, 2011 – 23:50
If you like long, boring posts with lots of numbers and more information about this site than you probably need, this is your lucky day. Webstats time! Last year there were 4,064 visits from 2,407 unique visitors to this website. With an average of 1.53 pageviews per visit, a grand total of 6,199 pages were [...]
Copying a DVD in Ubuntu
December 2, 2010 – 22:58
Total geekpost warning. Suppose that you’re using Ubuntu and you want to copy a DVD. There are of course several ways to do it, but if you’re not opposed to command line wrangling, just open a terminal and issue the following commands: sudo umount /dev/dvdrw1 readom dev=/dev/dvdrw1 f=/path/to/file.iso Where /dev/dvdrw1 is the path to your [...]
Binged
November 22, 2010 – 20:26
Chapter 28 of Stephen King’s Big Driver (the second novella in Full Dark, No Stars) starts of believable enough: But when [Tess] was in her office with her computer booted up, she only stared at the Apple welcome screen for the first five minutes … but a little while later, she … exited YouTube, Binged [...]
