Tag: technology
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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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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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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…
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bypassing the “ssl_error_no_cypher_overlap” error in Firefox 34
Generally speaking, it’s a bad idea to override security protocols browsers have instituted as they are designed to keep you safe on the internet (in the “less likely to be hacked” sense). However, with a recent update to Firefox 34, a website I use all the time for my research that is run by my…
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Linxumint or Ubuntu: How to Install MakeMKV
If you’re extra cautious with your investments like I am and want to make sure your Blu-Ray discs are backed up just in case, you need MakeMKV. It’s a piece of software that makes it possible to back up Blu-Ray discs. Using it in conjunction with Handbrake is the perfect solution for backing up Blu-Ray…
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LinuxMint: Run Two Instances of Firefox Simultaneously (for Zotero)
Advanced users of Zotero, the amazing, free bibliography management software, may have run into the problem that you have two separate Zotero databases and want to access them at the same time. I used to manage multiple databases simultaneously by using a really cool Firefox extension: Foxtester. Alas, that extension is no longer working with…
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Linuxmint or Ubuntu: Crashplan backup using headless Synology NAS
If you’re using a Synology NAS box and would like to back up your files to offsite storage service Crashplan (which is relatively inexpensive), there is a relatively easy way to do this. However, you need to think about the Crashplan software as having two components. There is the backup engine, or the software that communicates…
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LinuxMint or Ubuntu: How to Automount Synology Shares
UPDATE: As of Ubuntu 13.04, these directions no longer work. I figured out a way to get this to work, however. See the updated directions at the bottom of this post. ——————Old Directions———————————— If you’d like to share your network attached storage from a Synology file server with your Linuxmint or Ubuntu machine and have…
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LinuxMint or Ubuntu: Automount Server Share
(Updated to reflect changes in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS – 5/15/2012) While I’m still not 100% sure how I got my file server to share all the files across the network (whatever I did, it worked; when the server dies, I’ll figure it out and post it here). Regardless, I recently reformatted my desktop and had…
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LinuxMint: Keyboard Shortcuts to Move Windows Between Monitors
If you don’t have multiple monitors hooked up to your desktop computer, you’re really missing out. Having dual monitors is a delight when it comes to being able to see more than one window and work even faster. And to make the experience even more enjoyable, Ubuntu variants of Linux, including LinuxMint, my new Linux…