by Dave | Jun 12, 2010 | Tinker Blog
A school district is mandating that students’ parents buy them MacBooks. According to the article, Superintendent James Hayes sees the technology as an essential move to prepare kids for the future. Well, that makes sense- Macs are everywhere. I bet by the time...
by Dave | Apr 6, 2010 | Tinker Blog
I have a fun new phone finally and ran into a snag trying to get things into an arrangement where stuff on my desktop and on my phone sync. Google’s Android essentialy skips the problem of syncing software for the desktop by syncing with their Internet based...
by Dave | Mar 22, 2010 | Tinker Blog
Attempting to change the photo in the ‘About Me’ Personal Settings control, I ran into the error above. I found a good hint at http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=62046#p134788 but with one minor change. I don’t know why they felt they...
by Dave | Mar 20, 2010 | Tinker Blog
Mac OS X uses the HFS+ filesystem. Most of the time I don’t think we notice or care what filesystem we use, but in some cases, the filesystem itself is an important feature and even a draw to a platform. The BeOS for example had the Be FileSystem (BFS), which...
by Dave | Mar 19, 2010 | Tinker Blog
I recently got a great refurbished HP workstation from geeks.com. It’s got dual Xeon processors and 4 GB of RAM and I’m having a blast. It’s been top notch. I was happy to find some notes on HP’s site on their Linux hardware support- thanks HP....
by Dave | Mar 16, 2010 | Tinker Blog
I spent a bit of time early this morning trying to get my scanner working. My previous instructions on getting it to work didn’t seem to be doing the trick. I played with a lot of settings in conf files all over the place before finding reference online to the...
