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Dash Online Search To Be Disabled By Default In Ubuntu 16 04 Xenial Xerus

Why change this? According to Will Cooke, Ubuntu Desktop Manager:

"On Unity 8 the Scopes concept has evolved into something which gives the user finer control over what is searched and provides more targeted results. This functionality cannot be added into Unity 7 and so we’ve taken the decision to gracefully retire some aspects of the Unity 7 online search features".

He then adds:

"By making these changes now we can better manage our development priorities, servers, network bandwidth etc throughout the LTS period".

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Copy And Paste Images From The Clipboard In Nautilus

Nautilus

Install CopyPaste Images extension for Nautilu

Install CopyPaste Images extension for Nautilus by using the Atareao Nautilus Extensions PPA. Add the PPA, install the extension in Ubuntu 14.04 and 15.10, and restart Nautilus, using the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:atareao/nautilus-extensions
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nautilus-copypaste-images
nautilus -q

If you dont want to add the PPA, download the deb (or the source) from HERE.

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Dealing with communication overload in a corporate setting

Raise your hand if youve seen the film "Johnny Mnemonic".  Okay, both of you can put your hands down now.  If you dont know, Johnny Mnemonic is a cult classic; a typical mid 90s cyber punk flick.  It makes the list of my favorite films of similar vintage and style, such as  "Virtuosity", "The Crow", "The 5th Element" and "Hackers".  Among other things, "Johnny Mnemonic" was a campy Summer scifi blockbuster from the pre-Matrix/LotR era when cinema could just be entertaining without needing to grab you by the balls and cram mind blowing special effects down your throat. Johnny Mnemonic is a throwback to the time when the world was shaking of the dust of the whole Grunge thing and starting to wonder whats next as we looked forward to the future.  Pop culture everywhere was buzzing with anticipation of what we thought the infantile Internet of the dial up days would one day evolve into.  Johnny Mnemonic capitalized on just that, rife with hilariously incorrect (and occasionally spot-on) depictions of technology and fashion in the near future.  It had it all!  Sweet CGI sequences, a bangin Industrial and Techno soundtrack featuring staples like KMFDM, Orbital and Stabbing Westward, and a dizzying cast of mediocre actors including Keanu Reeves, Ice-T, Henry Rollins and Dolph Lundgren!

I absolutely fucking LOVE this movie.  But unfortunately for me, twenty years after the movies release, (just 6 years shy of the date in the movie) we are living in the not-quite-so-dystopian-yet-still-kinda-shitty future predicted in the film.  And while nobody is running around with cybernetic enhancements or digital memory augmentation brain implants, they did get one key thing right in this movie: information overload will be the death of you.

In the movie, that statement is taken absolutely literally and constant bombardment of external stimulus input eventually causes a neurological disorder called "Nerve Attenuation Syndrome" or simply "NAS" (which, in my line of work means "Network Attached Storage", ironically is a common remedy to information overload on hard drives.  hmmm...) which causes the victim to suffer potentially life threatening seizures, a phenomenon referred to in the movie as "The Black Shakes".

A few years ago during the death throes of the MySpace empire, when Facebook was rapidly taking a commanding lead in the Social Networking race, I at one point had a Yahoo account, an AIM account, a Gmail account, a MySpace account, a Facebook account, a Twitter account, and the list goes on and on.  I started to feel so overwhelmed by the incessant barrage of emails I was getting, both from legitimate sources and in the form of spam, as my "free" email accounts had been whored out around the Internet to every advertising firm in existence.  I tried many things at first, creating folders and rules to manage my emails, and then subfolders and subrules to try and create some order from the chaos, but it just became even more complicated and difficult.  Eventually, I found myself at my wits end with the situation, when I came across a solution:  a concept  I encountered a few years ago called "Inbox Zero", which I stumbled across on YouTube.  https://youtu.be/z9UjeTMb3Yk

A brief rundown of the Inbox Zero concept; Inbox Zero is an extremely aggressive approach to managing your inbox, where the goal is to maintain zero -or as close to it as possible- emails in your inbox at all times.  The process of sifting through the years worth of accumulated debris is a bit time consuming, especially if you are a serial social networking user.  You have to take the approach you would take to cleaning out a loved ones home after theyve passed away.  You need to look at each piece of mail and be brutally honest as you ask yourself: can I live without this?  Youll find that nearly 100% of the time, the answer is unequivocally yes. If you have information you need to hold on to for historical purposes, like tax information for example, that is not something that belongs in your inbox, nor does it belong in the cloud.  You should have a hard copy in a Manilla file folder locked up securely somewhere at your residence for safe keeping, or at the very least in an encrypted file on your computer.  Sensitive material just doesnt belong in the cloud, and it certainly doesnt belong in your inbox.  Dont believe me?  Just ask every unfortunate girl that had pictures of their snatch plastered all over the Internet after the massive iCloud breach earlier this year (the "Fappening").  Basically, if you dont want anyone else to get their hands on it, dont leave it online!  Its that simple.

If someone sent you some pictures you want to hang on to, download them!  Import them into iPhoto.  Upload them to your Google Drive.  They dont belong in your inbox.  See, people have this nasty habit of doing really stupid shit like emailing important documents to themselves, and then leaving them there, eating up space in their inbox indefinitely.  Thats what cloud storage or a thumb drive is for.  In this day and age when everyone carries around a cell phone with storage capacity that dwarfs that of even some computers or recent vintage, theres no excuse for abusing your inbox by cramming it full of attachments that should be stored in another fashion.  I always say use the right tool for the job; although email protocols have been extended over the years to support many types of media, more and more businesses (my employer included) have very aggressive security policies in place that arbitrarily block attachments that are anything but plain text documents.  If you have projects you need to collaborate on, your company should have some locally attached network storage where you and your team keep such documents.  If you need to access that storage outside of your work network, thats what VPN is for.  Using your email as cloud storage or a file server is a bit like trying to drive in nails with a wrench.  Sure it can be accomplished, but again, use the right tool for the job.

So after months of battling with my email, I have found my salvation.  Ive started a similar campaign to Inbox Zero that I call "antisocial networking".  Not only have I swung the axe wide on what is already in my inbox, but I started to kill the problem at the source.  I started pairing down, closing accounts that I dont use.  I used websites like justdelete.me and started a seek and destroy campaign to reduce my footprint on the Internet, eradicating dozens of old accounts for things like music streaming services I dont use, forums Im not active on, image/file hosting websites, and destroying virtually all social networking accounts, including what I consider to be the holy grail of unplugging- actually deleting my Facebook account.

I apologize for getting sidetracked here, but I feel like this needs to be said.  For a long time, the conventional wisdom was that its simply not possible to actually delete a Facebook account, rather that you can only deactivate it.  But then in my search to purge my existence from the Internet I came across Facbeooks best kept secret.  You CAN delete your account.  There just is no link to the page to do it anywhere on Facebook, nor can you find the page by doing any amount of Google searching.  The only way to access the page is type the URL in directly, and its so brain dead simple I cant believe that this isnt common knowledge, but at any rate, here it is

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DELL Inspiron 11 3000 2 in 1 Series 3157 Drivers Update for Windows 8 1 64 Bit

DELL Inspiron 11 3000 2-in-1 Series (3157) Drivers Update for Windows 8.1 64-Bit

• Getting You Started
• More Basics
• Phone Apps Mde Simple
• Texting & Keyboard Use
• Customizing & Using Your Coolpad Quattro
• Phone Set-Up and Phone Management
• Wireless Network Settings
• Connect to Bluetooth
• Creating & Sharing Videos, Pictures
• Data Usage Settings
• Google Play Store
• USB File Trasfers
• Optimize Your Phones Battery Life
• Stay Connected & Get Updates
• Coolpad Quattro II 4G Specs & Hardware

1. First, connect one end of the data cable to the USB/Power Port. This is located at the bottom of your phone. 
2. Connect the other end to the travel adapter. 
3. Connect the travel adapter to an electrical outlet & fully charge your phone.

1. A Wi-Fi network may be added so that your phone will recognize it along with any of its security credentials, and then it will auto-connect.  
2. Always add a Wi-Fi network if the network name is not transmitted (SSID), or when you are out of range. 
3. Tap the Plus icon on the top of your phone’s screen. 
4. Enter the SSID network name.  
5. Tap Save. Your phone will auto-connect to this network whenever you return to its range.