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Changing from Nouveau to Nvidia Graphics Drivers on Linux Mint Debian Edition 64-bit

April 22, 2012 1 Response Shortlink

One way of doing this is to go to the Nvidia website and download the latest file from the relevant page on there. Then, the next stage is to restart your PC and choose rescue mode instead of the more [...]

Changing to web fonts

February 12, 2012 Leave a response Shortlink

While you can add Windows fonts to Linux installations, I have found that their display can be flaky to say the least. Linux Mint and Ubuntu display them as sharp as I’d like but I have struggled to get the [...]

Widely differing approaches

January 28, 2012 Leave a response Shortlink

The computer on which I am writing these words is running Linux Mint with the Cinnamon desktop environment, a fork of GNOME Shell. This looks as if it is going to be the default face of GNOME 3 in the [...]

Yet another useful Windows shortcut

December 11, 2011 Leave a response Shortlink

During the week, I needed to go to a client to upgrade the laptop that they’d given me for doing work for them. The cause was their migration from Windows XP to Windows 7. Office 2010 also came with the [...]

A little look at Windows 8

November 6, 2011 Leave a response Shortlink

It has been a little while but I have managed to set up a VirtualBox virtual machine in order to take a look at the Developer Preview of the next version of Windows, something that I and others continue to [...]

A bigger screen?

February 23, 2010 Leave a response Shortlink

A recent bit of thinking has caused me to cast my mind back over all the screens that have sat in front of me while working with computers over the years. Well, things have come a long way from the spare [...]