Archives for: April 2010

apple + windows fail

By basd on Apr 25, 2010 | In arghhh!! | Send feedback »

My wife has an Itouch.  She likes the Itouch.  She wanted some photos on the Itouch. I could not find a quick linux interface to the Itouch.  There may or may not be one.  So, I logged into my Windows Vista install, which is entirely up-to-date but I r… more »

printer arrrghh ...

By basd on Apr 25, 2010 | In arghhh!! | Send feedback »

Ok, so the Lexmark printer would not feed after about 4,000 copies, so I bought a brother mfc-8890 because my Brother printers have always run forever.  I have a color mfc 9840 which works well, but being color it is always out of expensive toner.  The l… more »

bad karma

By basd on Apr 14, 2010 | In arghhh!!, off-topic | Send feedback »

So, I told my wife what a great printer my Lexmark E260d is because it print reliably and really fast compared to my other printers.  Even though its per page printing cost is rather high, but what the heck.  Whereupon it immediately commenced jamming ev… more »

miscellaneous and free equals yes

By basd on Apr 13, 2010 | In kde4, linux, opensuse, off-topic | Send feedback »

I did an OpSu 11.2 / KDE 4.3 install that seems to have no issues!  On an x64 Gateway desktop.  Of course, I didn't use it very much so I haven't pushed it to where I normally run into issues.  But anyway. In other news, I was obsessing on various "… more »

opensuse 11.2 kde 4.3 on usb flash drive

By basd on Apr 4, 2010 | In kde4, linux, opensuse | Send feedback »

This is working pretty well I've mentioned before that I had better luck with 4.3 than with 4.4. I was writing this post and intending to say that I hadn't experienced any problems, when the keyboard locked up and I had to power-off and reboot. Oh, we… more »

lxde summer of code

By basd on Apr 2, 2010 | In lxde | Send feedback »

It's not clear to me how well maintained lxde is, since the wiki refers to a 1/09 release.  But, it seems to me there are current updates coming in.  In any event, now that I am a regular user and I see that it is scheduled for summer of code 2010, I sur… more »

more glitz

By basd on Apr 1, 2010 | In kde4, linux, opensuse | Send feedback »

My bootable flash drive project went so well, I decided to try again with the Plasma reference netbook version. Not so much. The interface is attractive and utilizes the forward-looking features of the Plasma design.  But .... It ran like molass… more »