Shorten contents of spreadsheet cells

Posted on 2020-08-05 by

I have a spreadsheet file with a list of species’ Latin names. I want to automatically create abbreviations for each species, by shortening both the genus and specific epithet to a certain number of characters. Here’s how to do it.
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Chrome login keyring

Posted on 2020-07-10 by

Recently I upgraded one of my computers to Slackware64 -current and installed Chrome 83.0.4103.106 (Official Build) using the SlackBuild in /extra. I am not signed in with my Google account in this browser and every time I start it I am presented with a message about authentication, which is annoying.
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Automatically reconnect sshfs

Posted on 2020-06-10 by

I’ve been using sshfs to mount a remote folder between computers in my home networks. Sometimes I switch from WiFi to wired connection or the other way around. This causes Thunar to freeze, if I had forgotten to unmount the remote folder. Which I almost always forget to do and it becomes quite annoying.
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Firefox: disable click and hold requirement

Posted on 2020-06-01 by

One if the things I noticed first with Firefox was the weird (for me) right click behaviour. I need to right click and hold, otherwise the mouse cursor will automatically click on the menu. That’s not something I want to get used to.
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Eight years for Slackalaxy

Posted on 2020-05-31 by

It has been 8 years, since I started my humble blog. With this post, I have 208 altogether.

Well, that’s it.

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