http://www.endolith.com/wordpress move along Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:02:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en When I first installed Ubuntu in 2006, all my hardware worked out of the box.  It needed a few tweaks to run correctly, but it was much easier to get running than other distros I had tried.  I was very pleasantly surprised, and Linux became my primary desktop for the ... http://www.endolith.com/wordpress/2008/11/19/ubuntu-release-quality/ Just a small idea for improving gnome-screensaver.  When the screen is locked, other people can leave messages, which show up as libnotify pop-ups.  It's not obvious to the person leaving the message how it will appear, though, so I think we should add a From: field to encourage them to ... http://www.endolith.com/wordpress/2008/11/18/add-a-from-field-to-gnome-screensaver-locked-screen/ I'd been wanting a scanner for a while, and kept procrastinating.  Eventually I got fed up with myself and drove to Staples and bought a Canon CanoScan LiDE 70.  After getting home, I remembered why I don't make impulse purchases at stores. The scanner seems decent, but does not work in ... http://www.endolith.com/wordpress/2008/09/09/canon-refuses-to-support-linux/ This is super old-school and likely no one has any use for it anymore, but I once mirrored the Kensington VideoCAM webcam Windows 2000/XP drivers from this site, which are no longer available online: The Unofficial Source for Kensington VideoCAM Support By Orson Teodoro [horsie619@aol.com] http://www.geocities.com/trypt0/videocamsupport.html The text of the website itself is available ... http://www.endolith.com/wordpress/2008/09/09/kensington-videocam/ Inspired by attempts to make Wine's theme match the Human theme in Ubuntu, I tried to write a script to scrape colors from Gnome and apply them to Wine automatically, so the themes match no matter what theme you're using in Gnome. (Of course it would be best to have ... http://www.endolith.com/wordpress/2008/08/03/wine-colors/ Currently, to select objects in a GUI, such as icons in a file manager, you use the mouse to draw corners of a rectangle (called a "bounding box" or "rubber band" in the Gnome Human Interface Guidelines).  Often, though, you need to select multiple objects which aren't in a single ... http://www.endolith.com/wordpress/2008/06/29/object-selection-lassos/ So I've been trying out WordPress, but having lots of problems. Here are the two most recent: Not being able to insert the text "convert (from" -- even with other characters in the middle -- without getting a 403 error.  Not being able to insert images without getting a 403 ... http://www.endolith.com/wordpress/2008/06/21/wordpress-madness/ I have an old 2-channel analog oscilloscope, but it’s not very convenient and doesn’t have any storage capabilities, making it really difficult to measure transients or things that happen long after the trigger. I looked around at different options and decided a USB scope would be nice to have.  Since I’ve ... http://www.endolith.com/wordpress/2008/06/17/bitscope/ The status quo The modern computing paradigm: Documents are created and saved, then opened, modified, and saved again to the same filename. While opened, a document can be modified. Many programs have an undo button to revert to one or more previous states. New modifications can then be made, and ... http://www.endolith.com/wordpress/2007/12/24/abolish-the-saving-of-documents/ My girlfriend is showing me images on her computer (she uses an Apple because it's "simple"). After we view all of the files, which are scattered across her computer's desktop in a random pattern, I watch as she grabs one with the mouse and drags it onto the corner ... http://www.endolith.com/wordpress/2007/12/24/the-desktop-metaphor-is-stupid/