Archive for the ‘General’ Category

how to describe a power cable

Friday, August 26th, 2011

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEC_60320

Ubuntu Maverick upgrade removes Workspace Switcher names

Saturday, February 5th, 2011

This is because Maverick uses compiz, which doesn’t support them.

Change to metacity, which does.

$ metacity --replace &

iPad annoyances

Tuesday, June 8th, 2010

1. Can’t use certificate authentication with Safari, so there are some websites I can’t access that I can from my laptop.

2. iPhone-native apps don’t rotate into landscape mode.

3. Book selection in iBooks is paltry.