I think I’m hitting the same problem that is reported in this thread on the Lenovo support forums. If I unplug my X60 running Vista SP1, then about 10-15 minutes later, the screen goes blank. Usually black, but sometimes white. The machine is still be running in the background, but there’s no way to kick […]
Yes, yes, we all know that Firefox under wine beats Linux Firefox for javascript performance. That’s not what I’m talking about though. I’m talking about the UI performance. Things like switching tabs and scrolling. To me, the Linux version of Firefox in Intrepid or Jaunty was always inexplicably more sluggish compared to the Windows version. […]
In the newer Ubuntu’s they’ve moved to evdev, which is a much more dynamic system for configuring input devices. Unfortunately, it doesn’t quite seem to understand that I want wheel emulation on my Thinkpad’s trackpoint. Fortunately, there seems to be a way to set it explicity. I use the following script: #!/bin/sh DEVICEID=3 xinput set-int-prop […]
Just thought I’d write down the result of some troubleshooting I did last night. My Vista box just stopped going to sleep. I first thought it might have to do with the fact that I installed SyncToy and set up a recurring Task in the Task scheduler that was also set to wake up the […]
The Ubuntu folks seem to change around their default font settings every release. Whatever that’s fine. But it is worth nothing that the default “subpixel” setting in the gnome appearance dialog now means “subpixel + slight hinting” whereas previously it meant “subpixel + full hinting” Since 8.04, though, they’ve committed a crime, IMHO. There’s some […]
I started a thing at work where I keep a kind of TODO list in a text file. It’s a little different from a standard TODO list in that it also has a history of updates for each todo item. It lets me quickly see the list of things that are going on, and what […]
I never really grokked the behavior until now. It seemed like only a subset of my search folders that I created while I was in cached mode were communicated to the server. This meant that whenever I set up a new Outlook client install, not all of my search folders (that I had set up […]
Had a stupid problem with logging into Windows on my laptop for a while now. As soon as I finish entering my password and hit enter, the machine gets stuck at “Loading Personal Settings” for over a minute, with very little disk activity. I finally decided to try to fix it. The most helpful bit […]
I’ve reported my experiences on running previous versions of Ubuntu on the Thinkpad X60. Here are the notable updates with Hardy Heron: Wireless: Ubuntu dropped the closed source ipw3945 driver from their restricted packages repository, instead, opting to use the iwl3945 driver that’s included in upstream kernel sources. Unfortunately, the version that gets shipped with […]
Today I discovered a totally sweet feature of Google Document’s Spreadsheet. You can hook it up with Google Finance to pull stock quotes in near real time. All you need is the following in a cell: =GoogleFinance(“VTI”; “price”) The “VTI” part can be a reference to another cell. I’m guessing the “price” part can be […]