Archives for: September 2011
By basd on Sep 28, 2011 | In arghhh!! | Send feedback »
now back to our regularly scheduled whining.
Imagine my surprise when I fired up the laptop to tether to my android -- and it didn't work. So, I looked around the room at all the people happily browsing the net on their ipads. Yes, they are spending…
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By basd on Sep 25, 2011 | In arghhh!! | Send feedback »
A lot of my .desktop launcher files are on my external drive. They wouldn't launch. I had previously mounted the partition "defaults,user". Research indicated the partition needed to be "exec" -- which should be a default? I changed fstab to "defaul…
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By basd on Sep 25, 2011 | In arghhh!! | Send feedback »
before my self-inflicted meltdown of yesterday (which has ironically resulted in a reinstall and a better running system because of the legacy clean-out):
Hey! My computers are running great!!! I document lots of issues and irritants here, but right…
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By basd on Sep 24, 2011 | In kde4, linux, opensuse, arghhh!! | Send feedback »
The good news is I have a clearn install of OpenSUSE 11.4. So, see, there is this new "systemd" to replace systemVinit. And the Tumbleweed repositories explicitly told me not to install it.
But did I listen? Of course not. Well, sort of. Tumbleweed…
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By basd on Sep 21, 2011 | In kde4, linux, opensuse, arghhh!! | Send feedback »
OK, so I have complained for some time that certain programs (okular/libreoffice) were printing to the MP tray, even though designating tray 1. Other programs (Evince) were printing correctly. I could not find a software solution. I tried one thing t…
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By basd on Sep 17, 2011 | In arghhh!! | Send feedback »
I may as well kick the dog when it is down. Anyone watching investing blogs knows that RIM is tanking.I am not a "long time" Blackberry user, as in "corporate user since the very beginning." Rather, I got my first Blackberry in pre-iphone/pre-android…
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By basd on Sep 17, 2011 | In kde4, opensuse, gnome, arghhh!! | Send feedback »
I prefer to use kde4 "just because" and also due to issues I have outlined with my interim standard, lxde. But, all computers are not created equally. KDE 4.6 is running flawlessly on my 6 core desktop. Different stories all the way around on my othe…
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By basd on Sep 11, 2011 | In kde4, linux, opensuse, arghhh!! | Send feedback »
This link tells me everything I need to know as to why NetworkManager is not working for me. Of course, I don't understand it, or rather, this seems to apply to DIY NetworkManager installs, so WTF is going on with my distro?
Because, let's see. Infor…
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By basd on Sep 10, 2011 | In kde4, linux, opensuse, arghhh!! | Send feedback »
truth be said, after a[nother] wasted day, the Acer One and the LT3101u are running much better. and both are running KDE 4 (though forget about effects on the Acer.)
but ... but ... but ...
Well, KDE has this master vision to use nepomuk (searching)…
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By basd on Sep 10, 2011 | In kde4, linux, opensuse, arghhh!! | Send feedback »
So, my lxde desktop has become increasingly annoying. The launcher widget rarelywor after first start-up. The panels disappear when rotating desktops. Getting wicd or nm-applet running is annoying. The tapping on the touchpad must be restarted.
I co…
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By basd on Sep 9, 2011 | In arghhh!! | Send feedback »
The U.S. Empire is doomed. Who designs a system where 6 million people can lose their power because of this:
"The outage occurred after an electrical worker removed a piece of monitoring equipment at a power substation in southwest Arizona, official…
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By basd on Sep 3, 2011 | In kde4, linux, opensuse, arghhh!!, cloud computing | Send feedback »
I mean, the biggest technology problem I face in my day-to-day work now is email management. Yikes!
I guess programmers are not facing my same dilemmas or are satisfied with Off the Shelf solutions.
I access email from multiple devices and locations.…
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