by Dave | Jul 10, 2009 | Tinker Blog
For a couple of weeks, instead of seeing thumbnails in my Nautilus folders, I just see the default “Still Loading” icon. This is very annoying to me. Searching around people just suggest deleting the folder where thumbnails are cached. If you need to debug...
by Dave | Jul 6, 2009 | Improving Apps
Take a look at this Youtube video- you’ll notice that many of the features Steve Jobs demos back in 1992 (according to Wikipedia) are features of Mac OS X. Certainly much has been said about Apple acquiring Next and making NextStep into the Mac OS X. But notice...
by Dave | Jun 25, 2009 | Tinker Blog
For some reason, lately I’ve noticed that Nautilus (which is the GNOME file manager and is the part of your Linux system that draws the desktop in GNOME) isn’t keeping up with picture thumbnails. An easy temporary fix is to press F5 which will refresh the...
by Dave | Jun 17, 2009 | Tinker Blog
In reading about some repositories I might install from, I noticed this tidbit on the GNOME page at opensuse.org. It described adding the repositories needed and then: Then, you need to check that those repositories have a higher priority than other repositories that...
by Dave | Jun 11, 2009 | Improving Apps
I am prejudiced. Being a web developer makes me think this is the easiest part. Maybe it’s not for you. That’s OK. But get a real website. Hopefully, you’re using the great SourceForge.net site to manage your project. Good news- they’ll let you...
