by Dave | May 16, 2009 | Tinker Blog
Impossible? No- just a lot of work. Since I’m not running a kernel with ext4 support anymore, I had to do this to get my home partition into ext3: boot into a livecd with ext4 support image the partition to a firewire drive using sudo dd if=/dev/[partition]...
by Dave | May 15, 2009 | Tinker Blog
I’ve (finally) installed openSUSE. Since my home partition is separate, I’ve left it unmounted for now till I know whether I want to keep openSUSE- and if I need to downgrade from ext4 to ext3 on that partition (if that’s even possible). Why try it?...
by Dave | May 2, 2009 | Tinker Blog
My instructions from Intrepid turned out to be unnecessarily complex in Jaunty (probably was in Intrepid too). I just had to copy the firmware files from the original CD (still have it), moved them now to my home partition, and add the file reference to the...
by Dave | Apr 21, 2009 | Tinker Blog
I believe it’s crazy to do an upgrade. It’s just safer to backup important things and reinstall from scratch. This may be odious and time consuming but you’re just more likely to keep around some misconfigured or outdated packages if you just...
by Dave | Mar 28, 2009 | Tinker Blog
Firefox was driving me crazy- I open tabs most of the time with CTRL + click and even though the option to open the tab right away isn’t checked that’s what it does. Happily, I just found this note with a tip on making Firefox open tabs in the background:...
by Dave | Mar 22, 2009 | Tinker Blog
If you don’t know what these are, GNOME and KDE are a bunch of pieces that represent your computer. Things like the buttons you click are provided by these two desktop environments. There are others too. Both GNOME and KDE are acronyms whose meanings mean...
