From the ProBlogger Job Board - Android Blogger $$

Hey Android fans... I saw this, some of you FLOSS pals might want to check it out, use the link at the bottom for the full details.. 

Our soon-to-be premier Android news and app review site, is seeking full and part time bloggers/writers for regular content postings. Come aboard and help us grow our site from the ground up! 

If you are an Android guru, fanatic or addict and have the desire to write about it then why not get paid to do it?


Jobs for Bloggers - ProBlogger Job Board - Android Blogger

Print to PDF, and some sniggles

Since my last Linux Mint 9 Update / Tweak, I've tackled some more of the sniggly things that I have with Linux Mint. Some of these things may have been related. Such as, I wasn't happy with the Ubuntu Logo showing up in my Menu. This might have be due to the Airplane Theme that I picked out, I don't know, but I wouldn't be surprised. But I don't like the default Mint Slab Menu system. I prefer the Gnome Menu. But neither the Mint Logo nor the "Gnome Foot" were on display, but rather the Ubuntu Logo. I do like Ubuntu, as Mint is built from it, but I'm not using it. As I don't know if there is a better way to do this fix/hack, but I searched out all of the start-here.svg files and replaced them with the icon of my choice. I had to do some resizing of the image, and use ROOT permissions, etc. It's a pain to search out for them, and replace them all. I don't know if I'll do it again.

The other thing, was that my PDF files were going into my main HOME folder. - I don't want that, I want to put them into my PDF folder, this is something that should be taken care of in the Cups PDF printer config, IMHO, so people don't have to hack it via the terminal, not a hard thing to do for me, but maybe not so easy for others. I think that the whole point of a GUI based Desktop is to be able to perform your tasks from within the GUI framework as much and as often as possible. But here I start to run amok and ramble.

Output files are stored in your home directory under /PDF subdirectory.
To change the default location of the PDF output
From a Terminal window you want to edit the /etc/cups/cups-pdf.conf file

sudo gedit /etc/cups/cups-pdf.conf

look for
Out ${HOME}/PDF
and change to:
Out ${HOME}/my_print_to_pdf_folder

I don't know why this does the trick, but it does. 

[Credit] http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-create-pdf-documents-in-ubuntu.html

The Evolution of the Geek / Flowtown (@flowtown)

The Evolution of the Geek / Flowtown (@flowtown)

How do I buy a custom domain through Blogger? - Blogger Help

How do I buy a custom domain through Blogger? - Blogger Help

Seems fairly simple, so I decided to give it a try. - The downside, that I've not really given any effort, at this moment, to getting around is if you have a PDF or something else to upload that's not a standard item in the editor.

Get Linked from over 16,000 + sites with one click.

Installing Linux - Linux Tips For New Users

- I posted an article over on eZineArticles.com check it out, let me know what you think. :)

About 4 years ago, I was fed up with Microsoft, and had known about Linux, heard that it wasn't that easy install and use, but I figured I'd give it a go anyway. It's not hard at all, that might have been 10 or 12 years ago. In any case, once I found Ubuntu, one of the most popular and easiest to use Distros (versions) I had found MY Linux. And it wasn't hard to install or use. AND It's even more easy to get going today then it was 4 years ago.

Installing Linux - Linux Tips For New Users

Nautilus Elementary: A Simplified Patched Nautilus For Linux Mint 9

I got this from WebUpD8.. works just great in Linux Mint too. I wanted some of the functionality back to the old Nautilus that I had grown used to with other older versions of Ubuntu.

Happy with my Ubuntu...

Happy with my Ubuntu..

Sung to the tune of "Stuck In The Middle With You"

http://linksan.deviantart.com/art/Ubuntu-penguin-v1-38184504

Well I don't know but my computer won't load right
I got the feeling that something ain't right
It's so bloated with crap I don't think that it's fair
and I'm wondering how It'll boot next year
PC Clones to the left of me,
Mac Jokers to the right, here I am
Happy as a clam with my Ubuntu.

Yes, I'm happy with my Linux Ubuntu
And I'm wondering what what it can do?
Its so hard to keep this smile from my face,
No virus's sneaking into my geek space
PC Clones to the left of me,
Apple Jokers to the right, here I am
Happy as a clam with my Ubuntu.

The Registry started out as nothing
But bloated with their plans
And the programs they all were a crawlin,
Blue screens of death make you say,
Please.... Please....

FLOSS can make some sense of it all,
DRM makes no sense at all,
When your programs crash to the floor,
'Cause I don't think that I can take anymore
Clones to the left of me, Jokers to the right,
Here I am, happy with my Ubuntu.