Today I double-clicked an image, and it opened with WINE Internet Explorer. What in the world? Why would I want that? Anyways, odd developer choices aside, there’s a way to get rid of WINE’s software completely from your “Open With” menus. Shut down winemenubuilder.exe. Here’s how to do it: Open winecfg Go to the libraries tab [...]
An online friend named bmc_ on Twitter introduced me to tmux. It reportedly has simpler, cleaner code than screen, which implies that it’s more robust, in addition to more very useful features. The problem is tmux is very different from screen. It wasn’t at all easy to jump straight into tmux, without doing a thorough [...]
I have a lot of ideas about how the Linux desktop can be improved, perhaps revolutionized, and these ideas all come from running up against walls repeatedly. I’m going to write the best ones down, the ones I will eventually turn into an open-source project (years down the road, mind you) if no one else [...]
This is my own use of git svn. No one in Google seems to have this mix listed out for a Subversion project with a proper trunk/branch/tag setup, so I decided to post what I’ve got. Getting a repository: git svn clone –tags <tags subfolder> –trunk <trunk subfolder> –branches <branches subfolder> Updating SVN-tracking remote branches [...]
You know you’ve got a bad design, or at least one that could be improved, when you start copying and pasting code around. (Note: this doesn’t mean the design needs improving.) Now, to brace myself for the rotten tomatoes I see headed my way…
I don’t know if anyone else noticed this, but I certainly have. It’s not that it can’t be worked around. It’s that Gentoo-built desktop managers lack the polish other pre-mangled distributions like Ubuntu provide. I miss that. Presently, I’m using KDE, and as it turns out, it has the most integration issues, in my experience. [...]
This is as much for myself as for anyone who reads this. Now that Spotify landed in the US, it’s attracted my attention. I’m already paying $10/month for MOG. Can Spotify take my $10 and make my experiences even better? Music Selection So far, so good. I had one of my family members suggest a [...]
As far as I can tell, KDE is essentially a desktop environment shell layered on top of many very useful libraries. The difficulty is, how does one test each individual layer? Here’s a recent example. I started by using Amarok as my music player, a default choice it seems for many KDE users. I put [...]
Getting Started The Google-size summary: I’ve gotten Gentoo working on my MacBook Pro (5,3) again. I’m going to attempt to recount all the little issues I ran across while installing Gentoo. If you notice I missed something, post it in the comments and I’ll try to figure it out and/or add it here. I also [...]
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Tagged apple, efi, gdisk, Gentoo, gpt, gpt-fdisk, grub, grub2, macbook, macbook pro, ubuntu
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I know that an L. Hall (name shortened) last sat in front of this computer. How do I know? Because their entire paper was copied into the clipboard. Times, dates, class number, the whole nine yards. Just because you close the browser, doesn’t mean all of your private information is gone. Any feature, any program [...]
