Software

Copying Cyrillic URLs in Google Chrome and Firefox

2018-10-21 ·2 min read

Why Cyrillic URLs become percent-encoded when copied from Chrome and Firefox, with workarounds for preserving readable links.

2016-10-26 ·1 min read

Restore image dimensions and metadata in Dolphin on Gentoo by enabling the semantic-desktop USE flag and rebuilding the file manager.

2016-10-12 ·1 min read

Improve NetBeans font rendering on Gentoo Linux by enabling Swing antialiasing and configuring the look and feel in netbeans.conf.

2016-02-01 ·3 min read

Configure a PCN-001 8-bit ISA Ethernet card for a Pravetz 16 PC XT clone, including jumper settings and the NE1000 DOS packet driver.

2015-05-19 ·1 min read

Restore keyboard shortcuts with non-Latin layouts in older Eclipse versions on GNU/Linux by building and using eclipse-hotkeys-fix.

2015-05-18 ·1 min read

Set the framebuffer console resolution with proprietary NVIDIA drivers on Ubuntu, Debian, or Linux Mint using GRUB 2 graphics settings.

2014-11-01 ·1 min read

Finding 5¼-inch floppy disks filled with old games and programs, plus drive cleaning disks, for my Pravetz restoration project.

2014-10-31 ·2 min read

Restoring a Pravetz-16 Turbo from a scrap depot, with hardware specifications, photos of the cleanup, and memories of learning Turbo Pascal.

2014-09-25 ·1 min read

Disable overlay scrollbars in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and switch to normal scrollbars with a single gsettings command.

2014-07-27 ·1 min read

Run the JD-GUI Java decompiler on openSUSE by installing its required libraries, with dependency lists for 32-bit and 64-bit systems.