The official tray icon for Steam looks good with Ubuntu’s Ambiance theme, however, it doesn’t adjust its color when you change to the Radiance theme. Luckily, in order to change the icon, all you have to do is replace the existing icon: /usr/share/pixmaps/steam_tray_mono.png The icon is a 48 x 48 png image, so I suggest… Continue reading
Posts by Adam Siembida
Creating Launcher Icons in Ubuntu (14.04)
TLDR sudo apt-get install –no-install-recommends gnome-panel gnome-desktop-item-edit ~/Desktop/ –create-new sudo mv ~/Desktop/name.desktop /usr/share/applications/ Full Version Sometimes programs you want to install in Linux come as nicely packaged deb files, making them easy to install. Other times programs come as a folder with a shell script *.sh inside that you are supposed to run through the… Continue reading
How to Compile MPLABX Projects from the Command Line
Within the past couple of years, Microchip has released MPLABX, a Netbeans based IDE for their microcontrollers. The IDE works great and makes it easy to develop and build your projects; however, building releases locally on developer machines is not the ideal way to be releasing software. Continuous Integration (CI) and build servers solve this… Continue reading
How to Change Back to the Keyboard on the Samsung Note 10.1
I just recently bought a new Samsung Note 10.1 tablet, and it is a tablet with a stylus. It has a text input mode where you can write the text by hand and it changes it into typed text. Think back to the old Windows CE devices, but handwriting recognition that actually works surprisingly well…. Continue reading
How to Change the Firefox Button Color and Text
Note: This article is obsolete. They got rid of that button starting with Firefox 29. Firefox seems to change how the settings for the Firefox button work with every release, meaning that most of the tutorials explaining how to do this are either broken or buggy. Here is another tutorial on how to change the… Continue reading
Negative Resistor Lesson
This tutorial is going to cover the topic of negative resistance. At first, it might seem like a strange idea that you could have a current flowing in the opposite direction of an applied voltage; but, hopefully by the end of this tutorial you will have a better intuitive understanding of what a negative resistance… Continue reading
How to Send a UDP Packet in Python
Recently, I ran across a problem where I wanted to automate the testing of a microcontroller for which I was unable to modify the locked down embedded software. Moreover, the microcontroller could only communicate over an Ethernet network using TCP/IP and UDP. Sending either a TCP or UDP packet onto a network is a very… Continue reading
Setting Default Properties for the MathJax Module for Drupal
This is going to be a quick tutorial on how to set default properties and options for the MathJax Module for Drupal. I recently switched my Math (LaTeX) rendering module to MathJax, and I was having a hard time finding information on configuring the default setting with which the math equations would load. Finding the… Continue reading
Configuring Thunderbird to Work and Play Nice with GMail
This tutorial is going to explain how to configure Thunderbird 3 to work the best with GMail. In Thunderbird 3, the account creating wizard makes it easy to connect to GMail, but there are a lot of different settings that need to be adjusted to make the program work even better. This tutorial will explain… Continue reading
Adding Spice Models to LTspice
Finally… a new tutorial. Who could have ever guessed that life in the real world would be so busy (note the sarcasm!)? This tutorial is going to cover adding custom Spice models into your LTspice simulations and library. While it is very easy once you know how to do it, there are a couple pitfalls… Continue reading