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 | 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 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...
by Dave | Jan 29, 2010 | Tinker Blog
As I’ve started using KDE (alright- the KDE Software Compilation), one thing I’ve run into is that all the dialogs seem to default to certain folders. I ascribe to David Allen’s Getting Things Done and have tried to create a desktop environment that...
by Dave | Nov 13, 2009 | Tinker Blog
For the longest time I’ve been getting this error dialog when I log in: Error activating XKB configuration. It can happen under various circumstances: – a bug in libxklavier library – a bug in X server (xkbcomp, xmodmap utilities) – X server...
