by Dave | Dec 20, 2008 | Tinker Blog
Games and Compiz are not friends. It seems you basically have to disable your good looking environment just to play good looking games. Ironic. Anyway, thanks to Tombuntu, I was able to install Fusion Icon which is a system tray icon that lets you enable or disable...
by Dave | Dec 19, 2008 | Tinker Blog
Extremely easy thanks to the pdftk package. Just install and then follow the directions. To join two PDF files: pdftk page0001.pdf page0002.pdf cat output joined.pdf
by Dave | Dec 19, 2008 | Tinker Blog
I have had the Acer (now Benq) 620UT for years and years. It’s worked on every computer I’ve ever owned. I’ve had it working in Red Hat Linux before and didn’t expect any trouble in Ubuntu. That would have been true if I had not following a...
by Dave | Dec 18, 2008 | Tinker Blog
For some reason, early on in my new life as an Ubuntu user the splash screen started dropping off before the login page is displayed. I don’t really mind seeing all the technical stuff going on, and especially in those first few days it was valuable to see...
by Dave | Dec 14, 2008 | Tinker Blog
To me, a handy feature in Mac OS X was the system wide color inspector- I could just drop colors into that and they’d be available throughout most applications. Thanks to Eckard and his post on sharing color palettes, and of course the work of separate open...
