by Dave | Nov 24, 2008 | Tinker Blog
The Nautilus File Manager could be considered the core of the GNOME Desktop Environment. It manages your desktop and organizes your files. I’m very partial to it having used it when it was a preview release from Eazel, Inc. Some newer things I hadn’t been...
by Dave | Nov 24, 2008 | Tinker Blog
One of the delights of switching has been with my printer. That sounds really dumb but it was. Usually installing my printer is a pain. The reason for this is that it’s an HP 1020 I bought at Circuit City a couple years ago. For whatever reason, I just assumed...
by Dave | Nov 24, 2008 | Tinker Blog
I do web development and one of the things I have to have running locally is a mail server that sends the email generated by the websites I work on. To be honest I know only a bit about mail servers and try to keep out of that. I do know of two very popular ones:...
by Dave | Nov 24, 2008 | Tinker Blog
For some reason, early on, when I booted up I had an error about resolvconf in the list of startup processes. I found a post about resolvconf errors that said that for some reason it gets installed without needing to be and can safely be removed. If you some errors...
by Dave | Nov 21, 2008 | Tinker Blog
Oh at last! Ever since I installed I’ve been frustrated that any video seems to have major flicker issues. This is apparently caused by having the special Desktop Effects (from Compiz) enabled. kevinmedina was nice enough to share the solution he found somewhere...
by Dave | Nov 20, 2008 | Tinker Blog
Just finished looking at an awesome post about screenshot taking. I love it when things I want are not only possible but already handled well. I love being able to take a screenshot of a specific spot in Mac OS X with CMD+SHIFT+4 The Compiz screenshot method he...
