Monthly Archives: July 2009

Will amd64 Linux work on Intel Processor? Answer: Yes

July 26, 2009 | Leave a comment
It’s kind of con­fus­ing when it comes to Linux: most of the time your choices are 32 bit and 64 bit, which is almost always labeled “amd64.” As it turns out, the “amd” part is a bit of misnomer–it does NOT mean that the 64bit stuff only works on 64-​​bit amd proces­sors, despite what you (or [...]
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Gnome Global Menu Causes Firefox-3.5 Segmentation Fault

July 15, 2009 | Leave a comment
Ok, this is a seri­ous bummer. First of all, in Jaunty, Fire­fox 3.x won’t upgrade to Fire­fox 3.5–you have to install 3.5 as a new ver­sion. Good luck get­ting all your short­cuts updated. Worse, if you’re using the Mac-​​style menubar for Gnome, ie. the Global Menu, Fire­fox 3.5 won’t even start–it just crashes with the error “Segmentation fault.” [...]
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Adjust Snapping Distance in Scribus

July 13, 2009 | Leave a comment
Scribus is a pretty decent lay­out pro­gram, like InDe­sign, only open source. It’s not per­fect, and it’s a lit­tle buggy, but as long as you remem­ber to save often, you shouldn’t have any prob­lems. It’ll do most of the stuff InDe­sign does, which is really say­ing something. That said, my biggest frus­tra­tion is that mov­ing items with [...]
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The White Stripes on Conan — Flippin’ Awesome

July 10, 2009 | Leave a comment
A cou­ple years ago, I caught the White Stripes on Conan. It blew my mind: awe­some, raw blues. This video has the awe­somest part of it about 7:55, where Jack walks to Conan’s desk to play slide, then throws down his gui­tar when the cord jerks loose. Bizarrely, he closes with a bit from ‘John the Rev­e­la­tor’, a close cousin [...]
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