Today I had a go at installing awesome window manager. awesome is a great tiling window manager, useful if you have a large monitor and are fed up with having one window taking up all the space when it doesn’t really need it all. For example, having firefox maximised on a 1920×1200 resolution monitor can [...]
Posted on February 2nd, 2009 by Dave
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I recently discovered the wonders of skype, and tried to get my new webcam working with it under linux, and of course this proved to be quite tricky. After much fiddling I eventually got it to work, hopefully these steps will work for you too.
Posted on August 13th, 2008 by Dave
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Since I installed Hardy a week or so ago, I noticed the hard drive in my laptop was making a strange clicking noise every 5 seconds or so. At first I thought it must be slowly dying, and I was starting to get a bit worried, but then realised it seemed a bit suspicious that [...]
Posted on May 3rd, 2008 by Dave
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