Month: March 2014
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Mozilla Firefox: Arrow keys move cursor within the wepage, rather than scrolling. How to fix?
This one seems to be a common issue that people with children and pets encounter; a button-mashing session between said small being and the keyboard can sometimes leave your browser moving a cursor around the webpage when you press the arrow keys, instead of the keys scrolling the webpage up and down. Fortunately it’s…
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Krita: Where are the curves?
One of the most common things photographers use when it comes to editing images in Photoshop is the curves function. If you’re trying out Krita for the first time you may be looking for it – it’s in the following menu: Filter -> Adjust -> Brightness/Contrast curve The pop-up box should look…
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How to install the NFS client packages on Fedora 20 and automatically mount NFS shares
We were asked how to set up a Fedora 20 virtual machine to access folders on an already-set-up Ubuntu Server machine using NFS. A folder has been created on the Fedora VM to mount the NFS share to (/opt/documents in this case). First we install the relevant packages on Fedora: sudo yum install…
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How to check the shutter count or actuations of a Canon 5D Mark III (and other DSLRs) using Ubuntu Server
First, we install the required packages: sudo apt-get install gphoto2 libgphoto2-6 Once that’s done installing, plug in your camera via it’s USB port and check that it is visible to the system: lsusb You should see an output along the lines of: Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:8000 Intel Corp.…