by Dave | Jan 7, 2011 | Tinker Blog
While I’ve been trying to avoid Wal-mart lately (due to their HR practices), they’ve lately been selling a nice line of office supply products called @The Office. From the beginning I thought their purplish items reminded me a lot of Ubuntu’s purple...
by Dave | Jan 7, 2011 | Tinker Blog
It’s so exciting to see Linux games- I’ve purchased Humble Bundle 1 & 2 so far and there are some great games there. I was especially happy to see how we’re progressing to the point of having packages for the games. Two of them were .bin files...
by Dave | Oct 21, 2010 | Improving Apps, Tinker Blog
And does it matter? You bet it does. To millions of people out there, Apple products are the height of cool. As Matt points out over at 37Signals’ blog, Apple can change the whole debate by redefining what the words involved mean. Of course they don’t want...
by Dave | Oct 15, 2010 | Tinker Blog
Plymouth is the name of the subsystem that takes care of the startup process in Ubuntu. It’s supposed to be a purple (auberdine actually) screen with a nice Ubuntu logo and an activity indicator. But it can degrade to be simple white text on a purple background....
by Dave | Oct 14, 2010 | Tinker Blog
If you missed it, the UI in Ubuntu continues to be refined and looks smoother all the time. The wallpaper looks great, and the grey chrome is slick. I do wish the scrollbars were a touch wider, but they’re ok. I continue to love the dark window border. The...
