Archive for the 'Linux' Category
I had a few quirky things happen when I upgraded from Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) to 8.04 (Hardy Heron). One was sudo not working. It complained about my hosts file, which was weird but I fixed it by used “gksudo gedit,” since I couldn’t use “regular” sudo to get to it. The […]
I recently bought two new 19″ monitors (with a nice 1680×1050 resolution each). I was surprised that I simply plugged them both in and started the computer and Gnome was correctly displaying a cloned image (i.e., the same thing on both screens) at the correct resolution on both monitors. Unfortunately, getting them to […]
I did a post on this previously, but that solution was not ideal. Essentially, there are two versions of Totem, one using xine and one using gstreamer. The gstreamer one is the default and it is the one that has color problems when paired with an ATI card and (I believe) the FGLRX […]
When I first started using OSX at work, it was a slightly rough transition. Some things work really well and other things are just not intuitive at all (like the key combination for taking screenshots). The one thing that I instantly loved was QuickSilver. It’s an application launcher and a lot more. […]
Most Linux users spend quite a bit of time using the command line. It’s fast, efficient, and gives you bonus “cool points” with every command. If you’re anything like me, you’ve thought from time to time, “It sure would be nice to be able to do X” and then later stumbled across that […]
