Most Thinkpad’s that come with the trackpoint input device also come with a special middle mouse button that can be used to switch into ‘scroll’ mode. You hold down the middle button and push the trackpoint and it scrolls in the direction you push. Most annoyingly, however, it doesn’t work with many apps. But it […]
Not really a full review, but an initial impression of Safari 3 for Windows. It’s FAST. I know Jobs harped on this during the keynote, but it is definitely the snappiest browser that I’ve used on windows. It has none of the UI sluggishness that Firefox has. Japanese input doesn’t work. Not in the UI, […]
The Dell/Ubuntu guys are out of the gates with their first models, and also with their first QA mishap. I like Ubuntu ‘n’ all, but requiring users to edit their bootloader configuration to hack their way out of your mistake surely leaves a bad impression. Lets just hope that people know what they’re getting into […]
So I’ve been happily using Thunderbird 2.0 at work to connect to our Exchange server at work. It was going so well, that I decided to try it out at home. Install Thunderbird 2.0 on Feisty… connect to vpn… type in account info… download headers from folders… so far so good. Thunderbird claims to implement […]
To make up for my half-assed last attempt, I’ve decided to go all the way, and start a real community-driven site with its own domain. www.ubuntutips.net. I’m still calling it a beta, but feel free to register and comment or even send tip submissions to me through the link at the top of the page.
So my experimental website doesn’t work :-). I’m not sure what the cause is, but once you sign out of an account, you can’t sign back in. There’s a long thread about the problem on the Drupal site. I tried many of the suggested fixes, but it still fails to log me in correctly on […]
I’ve decided to try starting a website dedicated to various Ubuntu tips. The “beta” version is available at: http://ubuntutips.kendeeter.com This is meant to serve the same purpose as MacOSXHints, but for the Ubuntu community. I realize there is a lot of good info on ubuntuforums.org already, but the information there is unstructured and sometimes difficult […]
Just because I don’t use Ubuntu regularly at home, doesn’t mean it’s the same at work 😉 For some reason, I just cannot get Arial to look good on my Ubuntu box at work. I’ve tried all the various fontconfig settings, and nothing looks as good as how it looks on Windows. The closes result […]
I don’t know how many posts I’ve written like this over the years. Too many, probably. With the release of Ubuntu Feisty, I yet again welled up with enthusiasm for a Linux desktop. Finally, something that’ll work, I thought. I created a partition on my desktop at home, as well as my laptop, both which […]