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ThinkPad T520/W520, NVIDIA, Wide Gamuts, and You!

15 Comments Posted by on September 2, 2011

Update: Linking to a better color profile below. Update 2: I narrowed down the ACPI issues, and have a better solution. I recently purchased a brand new, maxed out ThinkPad T520. My old laptop was 4 years old, and while I absolutely loved it (and still do!), an opportunity came up to get a T520 [...]

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Ubuntu and Desktop Notifications

8 Comments Posted by on December 24, 2008

This past Monday, Mark Shuttleworth wrote about their plans for an overhaul of desktop notifications (the little popup bubbles telling you someone IM’d you or there’s updates available). Many people have asked me about this, some concerned, and wanted to know what I thought. Being the maintainer of libnotify, notification-daemon and the Desktop Notifications specification, [...]

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Fixing broken key codes in VMware on Ubuntu 8.10

2 Comments Posted by on December 23, 2008

I recently upgraded a system to both Ubuntu 8.10 and VMware Workstation 6.5, and while using it, I realized a number of keys were broken. The down arrow invoked the Windows Start Menu, for instance. Pressing Alt caused the key to be stuck. I knew this stuff worked in 8.04, but it certainly wasn’t in [...]

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Ubuntu Hello Kitty

9 Comments Posted by on September 23, 2006

Clare pointed to a Red Hat Hello Kitty and requested an Ubuntu version. Well, I couldn’t resist. Here you are Clare. I also have an SVG version available.

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