Arch
Enable Gnome Video Thumbnails in Arch Linux
Gnome’s file manager Nautilus does a great job of automatically thumbnailing all kinds of files including pretty much any video file.
But, in a fresh Arch Linux install you still need a few gstreamer packages to enable totem-video-thumbnailer to do its job…
Disable Recent Documents in Gnome 2.22.3
So even Windows lets you disable the Recent Documents feature, but for some reason Gnome really wants to remember what files you’ve been messing with. Personally I never use this menu item (usually under Places in the Gnome Main Menu) and find it to be a bit of a privacy concern.
Surprisingly enough there are no [...]
PhotoRec Saved My Butt
So my reckless typing really got me into trouble this time. I was attempting to zero-out a usb drive when I managed to put the wrong device in the dd command – I automatically typed sda1 (the primary HD) out of habit instead of sdb1 – the usb drive. I caught my mistake and gave [...]
