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 …

Installed the subject. Had no DVD drive, so installed from a flash drive. From the moment I finished partitioning the disk and clicked “Install” to when the system reported it was ready and asked for a reboot, it took 7 (!) minutes. Installed …

Went to my mother-in-law’s to help with the potatoes. Turns out I’m not bad at it — didn’t expect that from myself. I think everything will ache tomorrow…

failed to update … (unexpected error)

Might come in handy for Arch Linux newcomers. If after updating pacman it starts showing the following:

:: Synchronizing package databases… error: failed to update core (unexpected error) error: failed to update extra …