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Epson L210: a great multifunction printer for Linux
My friend Robbi put his Epson L210 printer in our office for use by other lecturers. For those who don’t know, Epson L210 and other L series printers is a line of economical inkjet printers. They are popular here in Indonesia due to their low operational cost and durability. I remember a few years back…
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Disabling Unity Keyboard Shortcuts Overlay
Recently I’ve been using Windows 8 as a virtual machine on top of Ubuntu 14.10. One thing that bugs me is the Windows Logo Key, or known as Super Key in the *nix community. In Windows 8, we frequently need to press the key to go back and forth between the Desktop and the Start…
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Migrating From Linux Mint to Debian with Encrypted Home
Debian has long been attracting me, so I finally decided to replace Linux Mint Maya running on my good old Acer laptop with Debian Wheezy. However, a problem stumbled the migration process: my home directory was encrypted. Unlike Ubuntu or Linux Maya, the encryption support was not built in the Debian installation process, so this…