>Been around the distributions recently and currently loving PinguyOS. As an aide memoir to myself, if you want to remove the notifications when pressing the caps lock key (which I do, as I’ve mapped that key to control), rm /bin/lock_keys Thanks to the helpers on #pinguyos on freenode for the advice.
> Why is it so hard to print? I have a bog standard HP Photosmart C4180 here running on an XP machine. It is shared as a windows printer. Jaunty works 95% of the time. Sometimes it just stops and wants a restart before coming back to life. Windows 7. Works about 50% of the time. Sometimes just nothing happens. The Windows 7 machine will sometimes think everything is fine but nothing appears on the XP machine. Sometimes it will…
>It arrived a day late and is looking pretty cool so far. So I’m typing this with MarsEdit first of all to see how I get on what that. What have I noticed about the new machine. Some random comments made in no particular order. Here’s the low down on the specs of the Machine. Model Name: MacBook Pro Model Identifier: MacBookPro4,1 Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo Processor Speed: 2.4 GHz Number Of Processors: 1 Total Number Of Cores:…
>OK, I’ve been using this setup for over a week. I’m a developer /sys admin who needs a Linux environment and who is stuck with just a Vista laptop. So here’s my solution. Certainly not a perfect solution but a lot better than some I’ve used in the past. The idea is that we run Ubuntu (or any Linux disto) within a VMware machine (I assume the free VMware player would work for this, but i’m using VMware workstation). We…