Category: technology
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Linux: remove all directories with same name
I ran into an issue with a piece of software that created hundreds of directories amidst my music and video collections. However, all of the directories had the exact same name. Rather than delete all of them individually, I figured there had to be a way to delete them all with a single command. Turns…
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Connecting Linux Laptop and Android Phone to UoT_Secure
My university, The University of Tampa, is great in a lot of ways. But one thing the university fails at quite miserably is in its support of anything other than Windows. The IT department does okay in supporting Mac computers, but they don’t support Linux at all. I had to get permission to wipe my…
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Ubuntu Linux (KDE): “Chrome didn’t shut down correctly” error
Every so often, Chrome on my Linux based computers (one running Kubuntu and one running Linux Mint KDE) starts having a problem. I like having Chrome save my tabs from my previous sessions so I can pick back up where I left off. But for some reason, and I’m not exactly sure what that reason…
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Android: LG G3 internet connectivity issues – Chrome, Feedly, and Sprint’s Data Optimizer
For about three weeks (end of June 2015 until mid July 2015), when I tried to go to a web page on my phone using Google’s Chrome browser (my default browser), about 2 out of 3 web pages wouldn’t load. Instead, the bar at the top would freeze about half way and then nothing would…
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Linux: Getting “Find” working in Dolphin on KDE (Linux Mint and Kubuntu)
One of the reasons I switched to KDE from Gnome was Dolphin, the file manager that ships with KDE. When I made the switch a couple of years ago, the Find feature in KDE worked really well. But some time in the last couple of years, the two distributions I’ve been using – Kubuntu and…
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LibreOffice – Comments Inserted on the Left rather than the Right
I’m guessing I have discovered a bug in LibreOffice, but I don’t know if that is the case for sure. Regardless, it’s a problem. Here’s the situation. I have my students submit all sorts of things to me digitally so I can grade them digitally. I just finished a marathon grading session and finals are…
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Limesurvey: How to Randomly Assign Participants to Different Conditions (i.e., Experimental Designs)
I’ve used LimeSurvey for a long time and really like the software. It’s powerful, yet very easy to use. But one thing I couldn’t figure out with the software was how to assign participants to one of several conditions within a single survey. For example, if you want to randomly assign participants in your survey…
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Linux: How to Change Password at The University of Tampa
Despite sending in feedback to the Information Technology department at my University about the myriad ways they could improve the process of changing passwords, they haven’t made the process much easier. Since the process is overly cumbersome, not at all intuitive, and I forget about the complications every time I have to change my password…
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LibreOffice: Printing with Comments in Margins
UPDATE: As of 12/15/2015, LibreOffice 5.0 broke this feature. See here. This should be fixed as of LibreOffice 5.0.5. I do a lot of my grading in my classes electronically. As a LibreOffice user, one issue I’ve had with the software is that I haven’t been able to insert comments into the document and then…