Archives for August 2007
How To: Getting Linux to look consistent
27 August 2007 | Ubuntu | No Responses
Nothing is quite as frustrating when using the desktop as having intensely out of play applications all over the place. No one can decide on a unified toolkit it seems, so instead, we have Gtk2 and Qt3, with a handful of applications still floating around in Gtk1, and a couple starting to appear in Qt4.
CraigD’s new QtCurve series of themes is the closest anyone has come yet, and after around three hours of screwing around with the settings and invisible documentation, I got it to work.
How To: VirtualBox MIDI in an XP guest
27 August 2007 | Ubuntu | 2 Responses
Here’s a tough one to get an answer for: why is it that when you have a valid ALSA0 MIDI device that every other application–be it Qt or Gtk–can access, VirtualBox fails to connect to it? The documentation suggests its virtual sound card should support it, and even if it doesn’t the Microsoft synth should kick in, right?
Nope.
To fix this problem and get music in all your old Windows games, we have to travel back to the land of 1995. Namely, we need to revisit WinGroove.
How To: Ubuntu and Windows printers
16 August 2007 | Ubuntu | No Responses
Getting the office printer to work from Ubuntu has been an ongoing struggle for me since March. Yesterday, I finally figured it out. Sadly, this would have been so, so much easier if someone had just taken the time to explain how the hell Samba works with CUPS, the Linux print server.
First off, you will need access to a Windows computer that can already access the printer. You will need the IP address of the printer — or the machine it’s connected to — and the name of the shared printer. A make and model won’t hurt either.