by Dave | Jun 10, 2011 | Tinker Blog
HP is a great company when it comes to Linux support. I love that I can go out and buy a lowend wireless laser printer and it works perfectly with my Linux desktop. HP Linux Imaging and Printing (HPLIP) is their software for managing their devices and it’s...
by Dave | Mar 24, 2011 | Tinker Blog
Ever since it was released by its creator, I’ve been a big fan of Inconsolata and plugging it in as the preferred Monospace font is always one of the first things I do in a new OS install. Unfortunately, I ran into an ugly QT problem where QT is attempting to...
by Dave | Mar 16, 2011 | Tinker Blog
Just do what this guy did: Check ~/.kde4/share/config/networkmanagementrc and make sure that Autostart=true is listed under the [General] section. That did it for me. No amount of messing with Autostart in the KDE System Settings helped.
by Dave | Mar 16, 2011 | Tinker Blog
It would seem to be a simple request. But, not so. There’s even a bug. When I try to assign the shortcut, it showed “Launch (1)” as the assigned key. I was able to resolve it using the tips at https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=837944 which...
by Dave | Mar 14, 2011 | Tinker Blog
I use Thunderbird for the e-mail I actually get delivered to my computer. It’s great software and I’ve got it tied into my Google Calendar and Contacts databases. Great product. But when I installed openSUSE 11.4, suddenly the calendar component...
by Dave | Mar 12, 2011 | Tinker Blog
I just installed openSUSE 11.4 (KDE) and in setting up my work environment, had some trouble. I use Komodo for my scripting IDE and the PHPUnit tests would not run. I had installed PHPUnit via the official method but no go. PHP Warning:...
