by Dave | Mar 22, 2009 | Tinker Blog
If you don’t know what these are, GNOME and KDE are a bunch of pieces that represent your computer. Things like the buttons you click are provided by these two desktop environments. There are others too. Both GNOME and KDE are acronyms whose meanings mean...
by Dave | Mar 22, 2009 | Tinker Blog
VirtualBox is a free virtual machine environment that runs on the major platforms. Competitors include Parallels, VirtualPC, and VMWare, all great products. The VirtualBox project was acquired by Sun a while back and it’s still free and better than ever. In Mac...
by Dave | Jan 20, 2009 | Tinker Blog
I thought my Core 2 Duo machine was 64-bit. I’ll have to look at it a bit more. After looking around I found the version package which very easily tells you what version you’re running of various programs. Just enter version program-name or version ubuntu...
by Dave | Jan 11, 2009 | Tinker Blog
I always want to use things the way they were intended, but it has always grated on me that there are not one, but two panels with controls and everything all over them. Now I understand the logical division of the default panels. The simple menus to the top left in...
by Dave | Dec 27, 2008 | Tinker Blog
With thanks once again to Ubuntu Community Forums, I managed to get my Caps Lock key working. Not one of the things you’d think would be tricky, but… sudo apt-get –purge remove mouseemu Then reboot.
