by Dave | Jun 17, 2009 | Tinker Blog
In reading about some repositories I might install from, I noticed this tidbit on the GNOME page at opensuse.org. It described adding the repositories needed and then: Then, you need to check that those repositories have a higher priority than other repositories that...
by Dave | Jun 8, 2009 | Tinker Blog
I just got finished posting my first contribution to the openSUSE site at http://en.opensuse.org/Skype_HOWTO#Skype_conflicts_with_pulseaudio.3F! Happily I did not give in and just rip out pulseaudio as some people suggest. Skype was just looking for...
by Dave | Jun 8, 2009 | Tinker Blog
I know that I am a technology snob. I dislike or don’t use some things just because I don’t ‘like’ them. KDE has been one of them- although in my defense I have tried it out at various times. I tried it out again on Saturday, thinking that this...
by Dave | Jun 5, 2009 | Tinker Blog
At the office we have a file server for staff to move files like presentations and documents around. I haven’t used it much since I’m the only web guy and people usually e-mail things straight to me when I need them. But starting next Monday, I’ll...
by Dave | Jun 3, 2009 | Tinker Blog
I’ve had lots of trouble since migrating to openSUSE with playing video files of nearly any kind. Running it in the terminal just results in errors usually including something like x11 video output error: X11 request 141.19 failed with error code 11: BadAlloc...
