Das Boot
My bootchart:
I managed to get Skype installed. So right now the only things I’m missing from my current setup are: External monitor support (I’m still working on this) Quicken 2008 (May work in WINE, but I’ll likely try to switch to another system) Netflix online viewing (I’m really at the mercy of Netflix, but I can [...]
I cannot get a second monitor working with my laptop. When I attach a second monitor, my laptop monitor ends up mirroring the second monitor (problematic since the second monitor’s resolution is invariably higher). All attempts to fix this, either through KDE system properties or by editing xorg.conf directly have failed (sometimes spectacularly). A second [...]
I made the switch to Kubuntu on my laptop sooner than I had originally planned. Hard drive failures have a way of accelerating change (back up your data!). The only hiccup was that after installing 7.10 from a CD-ROM, I was asked to upgrade to 7.10 on restart, which was puzzling. The upgrade kept failing [...]
I finally figured out how to get Firefox to cooperate with the KDE sound system. All I had to do was find out where the Firefox binary was actually executed (this call isn’t easy to find unless you are familiar with browsing through shell scripts) and put artsdsp before the binary name. This is still [...]