Connected an IDC 2814BXL VR — a voice dial-up modem — to the 2003 server. Planning to set up dial-up connectivity with my subordinate sites; drew up a diagram for moving the phone into the server room and back again :) True to form, this Microserf …

To be able to use the Win keys for hotkeys in GNOME, you need to do the following:

Gimly comments…

You can use the familiar Win+D, Win+L, and similar combinations for this purpose — found it here.

Tested on Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) — dialog …

It turned out that Mint has its own search engine baked into Firefox (wrapped around Google). You can remove it, but I couldn’t figure out where it installs from in the first place. And the search itself is pretty lame — the relevance is off, the …

I’m suffering. There’s no decent dual-pane file manager in GNOME :(

Got Skype working on Mint today. My webcam with built-in microphone was recognized without any issues. What I didn’t expect was sound problems: Skype refused to either play or capture audio. Googling turned up this solution: set everything in the …

In the desktop unlock dialog it shows the current keyboard layout. KDE doesn’t show it.

another gnome annoyance — the screensaver doesn’t dismiss with just the mouse, you have to press something on the keyboard.

There’s a theory that the piece of malware that recently sent messages on my behalf through Odnoklassniki might have come from some Firefox extension — because I had installed a couple of them from shady sites, wanting to get web sticky notes.

GNOME is very unusual. Yesterday I was unsuccessfully trying to configure Wi-Fi — there’s no network search anywhere. The drivers seem to be installed, but I couldn’t connect. On the other hand, the webcam was recognized; it works in Skype …

couldn’t resist, tried connecting my SonyEricsson k750 via USB cable to the machine running Mint. and guess what? it: 1. recognized the phone as a device, let me browse its memory with the file manager 2. recognized the phone’s memory card as …