by Dave | Nov 15, 2011 | Tinker Blog
Need to work on focusing? Try out the Tea Time timer on Launchpad. You can set up set periods of time. Depending on your work style that might include a timer for when you need to look away from your display, how long you should be in ‘flow’ time hacking...
by Dave | Nov 15, 2011 | Tinker Blog
If you’d like to get some nice thumbnails of your OpenOffice/LibreOffice documents, follow these instructions from Webupd8: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:flimm/ooo-thumbnailer sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install ooo-thumbnailer Once installed, restart...
by Dave | Oct 24, 2011 | Tinker Blog
I know how to mess with fstab and get this new internal backup drive to mount automatically, but I’d like to do it with a GUI. Why? Maybe I’m sick but I like using GUI software. But nothing that ships in Ubuntu can help me there. Instead simply install...
by Dave | Oct 24, 2011 | Tinker Blog
When I started with Linux everything seemed to mount at /mnt in the filesystem. Later I started noticing everything seemed to be at /media. I took this to be a difference in the way different distributions were choosing to mount drives. But I just came across this...
by Dave | Sep 15, 2011 | Starting Out with Linux, Tinker Blog
When you’re using Ubuntu, you’re using a set of buttons and on-screen controls (a ‘toolkit’) called GTK. Part of Linux’s strength is that there are many options to choose from in terms of toolkits and programming languages that can be...
by Dave | Sep 14, 2011 | Tinker Blog
If you head over to https://www.mupromo.com/macfonts you can take part in a promotion they’re doing and get over 2000 font files free. Note that I said files. There’s a separate file for each style (e.g. bold, italic) so I don’t think it’s...
