Remap that copilot key
My new laptop has a copilot key instead of a right ctrl key. When you press the copilot key it emits left shift + left Windows key + F23. I wanted to map that back to ctrl in Ubuntu 24.04. Continue reading
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Noisy Outlook calendar notifications for Ubuntu 24.04
[Updated 2/9/2026 with instructions to create a user-based systemd unit] My experience is that Outlook calendar events don t make any sound in Ubuntu 24.04 even when configured in OWA. I m not sure why. It s fixed in Ubuntu 25.10 (and maybe Continue reading
When Mozilla Firefox hangs on the Print Preview screen…
I m running Mozilla Firefox, and twice now it s gotten into a state where the print preview function hangs, making it so I can t print to printer nor to PDF. (I can still cancel out of print and be back to Continue reading
Three aphorisms about double entry accounting…
The following little list is geared toward those who are new to double entry accounting, like I was. I found each of the following surprising and counter-intuitive, and learning them was hard work Not everything that takes money out of Continue reading
Why does IntelliJ IDEA cause my ssh key confirmation prompt to pop up every few minutes?
Ever since I upgraded IntelliJ IDEA to a recent version probably one of {2018.3, 2018.3.5, 2019.1} my ssh agent has been prompting me for access to git every few minutes whenever I have a project open. Very annoying! The offending setting, which Continue reading
Ubuntu: make your mp3 files play in order on your car stereo
Have you copied your sequentially-numbered mp3 files onto your USB device and then been surprised to find that they play out of order on your car stereo? You might need to sort the device s file allocation table First: sudo apt install Continue reading
What to do when Ember thinks Chromium is not installed, though it is…
When I tried to run ember test --server I got the following error: Chromium does not appear to be installed, testem cannot run. even though Chromium was too installed. To fix this, I ran the following: node node_modules/ember-chromium/download-chrome.js
How to get files off your Android phone onto Ubuntu Linux
Just install kio-extras, then the dolphin file manager will find the files: code sudo apt install kio-extras /code (This enables MTP mode.)
Why my cron job wouldn’t run
On my Ubuntu system I had a lynis script set up to check my company computer s setup daily and upload a report. The script ran fine when I ran it directly at the command line, but it never seemed to Continue reading
How to configure ssh to stop perpetually giving you a ‘known hosts’ warning for the same hosts
Whenever I used ssh, I would constantly be getting warnings like this: Warning: Permanently added 'somehost.org,111.22.33.45' (RSA) to the list of known hosts. The warning would show up even when I was connecting to a host and IP address I d Continue reading