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Linux, Ubuntu
Terminal Tips [Ubuntu]
11.27.09 | Permalink | Comment?

Here’s something I enjoy and use often. The following steps make it so you can easily bring up a terminal (to use for installing programs or making modifications/ inputting commands you’ll likely run across when looking for online.) Go to: System Preferences Keyboard Shortcuts Scroll down and under Desktop you’ll see Run a Terminal. Click [...]
Linux, Ubuntu
Resolve Ubuntu panel icons that get rearranged
11.01.09 | Permalink | Comment?

It could have been that I wasn’t using the right search terms, but for the life of me I couldn’t find a solution for how to fix things when the panel icons in Ubuntu get rearranged by the system. Some have reported the issues are resolved after a reboot, but I know I didn’t get [...]
Linux
Multi touch, not just for Mactards anymore
03.31.09 | Permalink | Comment?

Sorry, I’m not a Mac hater. If I had the dough for one, I’d get a MacBook Pro in a flash. It seems someone’s figured out how to activate a (trimmed) version of multi touch. Two finger scroll, two finger tap and three finger middle click. Ubuntu only though. Sorry Windows users. Oh yeah, you [...]
Linux
Whine wine .wine…
11.20.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

I’ve been Windows free for a good couple weeks now. I’m getting used to Ubuntu now and I’m finding the task of learning how to transition to Linux to be a lot easier than it was years ago when I picked up Mandrake Linux (now Mandriva) from the Barnes & Noble at Bay Terrace in [...]

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