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I have once again started using Linux while working away from my main office. And it seems that every time I start using Linux after a break, I come across an issue that I have to resolve. I shouldn’t really complain though since it does give me something to write about. This time was a fairly odd issue with a very simple fix. Whenever I would plug in my flash drive or external media (such as a hard drive), my operating system would mount normally and show the Desktop icon, but the flashdrive appeared twice under “Devices.” For me, I see the “Devices” when looking at folders on the side pane.

Long ago I had the idea to build a Mini Computer, a Mini ITX computer. I knew about the drawbacks of such a computer, including a lower processing speed and usually no option for a dedicated graphics card. Being perfectly fine with these drawbacks, I set my sights and goals on a custom Mini ITX computer that would be energy efficient, fit at least two hard drives and be able to run fast enough for my every day work. I came across the AMD Kabini AM1 processors which support onboard graphics, only consume a maximum of 25 watts, and are fairly fast. Once I had the CPU in my cart the rest came easy.

Postbox is an e-mail client that contains all sorts of methods to organize and view your e-mails. One of the features is assigning messages a Topic, or what most people would call labels or tags. A single message can be assigned to a Topic or multiple topics. You then can view all messages for a specific topic. But the unique feature about Topics is that you can assign a color to the Topic which makes it easy to view messages assigned to a specific topic in the message list. Sadly there is a limited amount of colors you can pick… or is there. Continue reading below to learn how to set custom colors to Labels in Postbox.

If you run a server, you probably end up having to run commands that require passwords. Some programs handle passwords a lot better than others, such as MySQL. If you don’t specify a password in MySQL but include the -p argument, your password won’t be visible. But if you create a new user or change your password that’s a different story. There are also some programs that may require sensitive information directly from the command line or commands that you want to run once the user exits of the shell.

I have a love hate relationship with the Windows Documentation and with how MSDN is designed. I could spend hours trying to find the information I need and even then there will be information missing. To give you an idea of what I mean, I wanted to make a shortcut key that only requires a single key instead of having it use Shift, Ctrl, Windows Key or other modifiers.

In their documentation they don’t mention anywhere that modifiers are not required. From what the documentation shows, it appears that you must use one of the four available modifiers. I did a little bit of testing to see if I could make it so a modifier wouldn’t be required.