There's a bug written in the Ubuntu tracker (and in Fedora too, I think) about running dnsmasq and libvirt at the same time. Basically, libvirt runs an instance of dnsmasq, and if you install the system dnsmasq it tries to bind to all ...
As I mentioned in the last post, I've switched to the i3 window manager. After fixing the Caps Lock key, the next order of business is getting the audio keys on my multimedia keyboard to control audio output. (It's nice to be able to quickly mute or pause ...
Background: I just built a new computer, and "upgraded" to Ubuntu 12.04. I've been a fan of Ubuntu for a long time (first Debian, then Ubuntu because of the faster / more predictable release cycle). But you can add me to the list of people unimpressed with the "Unity ...
Over the past year or so I've been doing a fair bit of GUI programming -- both in ${DAYJOB}s and otherwise. Until just recently most of my GUI experience has been with wxWidgets (and most of that via wxPython). Lately I've wandered to GTK.
The documentation for both ...
A long, long time ago, I talked about a poor user interface. This is the follow-up "good user interface" post that I promised.
I'd like to talk about Anki, which is a flashcard program. The user interface is well done for several reasons: