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If you ever learn one line of Perl, learn this. It’s so useful. I used this to fix a playlist which got messed up when I changed the server that holds my network drive with all my music on it. I first exported the playlist as an .xspf file which had lines like this in…

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This year at exactly 23:56:60 on December 31 UTC there will be one extra second added. It will therefore be at 18:59:60 EST or 15:59:60 PST. What better way to celebrate the extra second than by watching the date change in a Linux console? Here is a command to display the UTC as it counts…

Ok, so this was available for a few days now but I’m reporting it here now after having used it for the past several days. If you’re using either Kubuntu 16.04 “Xenial” or 16.10 “Yakkety” you can now upgrade Plasma to version 5.8 via the Kubuntu Backports PPA: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports sudo apt-get update sudo…

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1. Check out KDE Neon User Edition. It is based on the current Ubuntu long-term support (LTS) edition which is currently version 16.04 codename “Xenial”. Neon seems to be the way of the future for KDE. But I must qualify this statement because there is also criticism of Neon since it is not an offical…

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