As much as possible, I’ll be outlining every hitch I ran into along the journey. I switched from Mac OS X 10.5.5 Leopard to Ubuntu Linux 8.10 Intrepid Ibex and am now using openSUSE 11.2. Having been a Linux user for a while previously it has been amazing to me how far Linux has come in just a few years.
- Fun Way to Access Files and Folders
March 10th, 2010
Take a look at http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/4179 and give it a try. You may find that it’s right for you in providing a quick and easy way to access files.
And I again, kudos to the KDE crowd that made even the scrollbar super slick here (do this with a folder that has enough files that you have [...]
- Enjoying Amarok
February 26th, 2010
Amarok is not a simple media player and I don’t think it’s intended to be. I’ve said all along that KDE isn’t the ’simple’ choice, but it is packed with powerful functionality. Amarok goes right along with that. I have some gripes with it, but I’ll wait to post about those after I’ve resolved them.
One [...]
- Errors When Opening Excel Files on an iPhone or Blackberry?
February 22nd, 2010
The iPhone shows an error when you try to open an Excel file you’ve created in OpenOffice. The exact error is
The document was created with an unsupported version of excel.
Now it may seem at a glance to be unfair. OpenOffice support for MS Office formats is pretty reliable. No desktop OS has trouble with it.
The [...]
- KDE is So Cool
February 12th, 2010
I am just loving KDE. It is not perfect. But it is fun to use and (almost) never gets in my way. Instead it shows me new ways to work. Can’t wait to learn more.
Alone among desktop developers, KDE seems to have grasped that the free desktop is no longer trying to equal the proprietary [...]
- Facebook Chat in Kopete
February 11th, 2010
To be honest, I’m not too in love with Facebook but I’m always happy to see a company use a recognized standard to do something. Facebook now uses the Jabber instant messaging protocol to do chat which means Kopete (and many other instant messengers) now support Facebook chat without a hitch! Instructions at the Facebook [...]
- Changing System Paths
January 29th, 2010
As I’ve started using KDE (alright- the KDE Software Compilation), one thing I’ve run into is that all the dialogs seem to default to certain folders. I ascribe to David Allen’s Getting Things Done and have tried to create a desktop environment that reinforces those habits. So I don’t use the ‘Documents’ folder. As it [...]
- Switching to KDE
December 8th, 2009
I know. I’ve railed against KDE for a long time. And yet here we are. Leaving GNOME behind.
Why
To be frank, part of it I’m sure is that I’m kind of restless with technology. And KDE has a lot that has impressed me. Not just slick appearance- maybe even too slick- but there is a focus [...]
- XKB Error on my MacBook Pro
November 13th, 2009
For the longest time I’ve been getting this error dialog when I log in:
Error activating XKB configuration.
It can happen under various circumstances:
- a bug in libxklavier library
- a bug in X server (xkbcomp, xmodmap utilities)
- X server with incompatible libxkbfile implementation
X server version data:
The X.Org Foundation
10502000
If you report this situation as a bug, please include:
- [...]
- Finally Got VirtualBox Running Again
October 20th, 2009
It may seem odd on a ‘Use 100% of the Time’ blog but occasionally I have to use other OSes to check for browser compatibility. Maybe someday I can even throw that out, but in the mean time, this chore is necessary but usually only once every week or two.
When I fired up VirtualBox it [...]
- RealPlayer Left Mime Type Icons Behind
September 19th, 2009
Way back when I was starting out as a web designer we used technology from RealNetworks to do some things that were, at the time, pretty amazing. But they quickly got left behind. To the point that the other day when I was attending a webinar, I realized I haven’t had RealPlayer installed for years.
I [...]
