Probably you have either listened to me or read my thoughts or both for several years now, but it occurred to me today that someone out there might be interested in seeing what actually drives the LincGeek. I currently live in Pennsylvania, but I was born and raised in Upstate NY, with a brief stint […]
I wrote a little script to help me quickly set up a new Mint 12 install the way I like it and to fix a couple random annoying issues. Enjoy: Script name is fixmint.sh #!/bin/bash clear # Test for UID=0 if [ “$(echo $UID)” != “0” ] then echo “You must be superuser to run […]
Found out a couple days ago that there is a problem with the PPA for handbrake with MINT 12 and Ubuntu 11.10 (and probably others as well). There is an easy workaround for it though. That is to use the snapshots ppa instead: apt-add-repository ppa:stebbins/handbrake-snapshots apt-get update apt-get install handbrake-gtk handbrake-cli
OK, so it’s no secret I am a Mint addict. I just *had* to install Mint 12 as soon as I could, so I grabbed and installed the RC as soon as I could. What I would like to review here are my impressions after using Mint 12 for a while. First, let me say […]
I just couldn’t wait any longer so I grabbed a copy of the gnome 64 bit cd iso image from http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/linuxmint.com/testing/. Well, I also grabbed the DVD image as well, but I actually used the cd image to install. It’s a live cd/dvd so I set about checking out the live version first, of course, […]
First time this happened! A coworker asked me today how to get into his Linux Mint box after he forgot his password. Of course I rattled off the old GRUB way to get things done, but, what?? This is GRUB 2! No so fast there! Turns out it’s quite different. You hold down the shift […]
I have had to spend a lot of time this week on my netbook. Normally I really dig the Linux Mint background, but the light background of Mint 11 on my little netbook was just too bright and annoying to me for some reason. So, I set out to find something a little darker. Where […]
I have seen a lot of commenting on the decision to use a black screen as the boot splash on Linux Mint 11. One person summed it up well when they said that that black screen is indicative in many other operating systems as something going wrong and it tends to scare people. Well, that […]
Yes, I know.. Long time since a post, but I have been waiting ’till I had something interesting to comment on 🙂 You should all know by now that Ubuntu 11.04 and Mint 11 are now out in the wild, and both are very nice IMHO. I have been a “Minty” guy now for quite […]
Some days things just go right. It’s been a while since that happened to me, hence the lack of posts lately. Well, that changed tonight… I decided it was high time to get a new printer. I have been using used HP LaserJets for years and my last, a LaserJet 5 was finally starting to […]