by Dave | Jun 25, 2009 | Tinker Blog
For some reason, lately I’ve noticed that Nautilus (which is the GNOME file manager and is the part of your Linux system that draws the desktop in GNOME) isn’t keeping up with picture thumbnails. An easy temporary fix is to press F5 which will refresh the...
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...
