In the land of Ubuntu and Linux in general one thing that has really sucked is Wifi support. Oh, it has it, just generally lags 2-8 years behind when it comes to chipset support. I remember first installing Ubuntu on my Acer Inspire One. Thank God it had a cable connection port to backup the built in Wifi because it was years before that chipset got support. Recently I re-arranged a few things in that … A Ubuntu Compatible AC Wifi CardRead more
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Fedora 32 – Black Screen After Login
I set the feature image for this piece to one of my holding my SystemRescueCD. When it comes to Fedora “you gonna need it a lot!“ While I will say Fedora has gotten oceans better since I last touched it, I must honestly say it is still horrible. Basically they put a desktop front end on a locked down server version of Linux and didn’t actually finish the “front end” part. It is still really … Fedora 32 – Black Screen After LoginRead more
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CopperSpice Experiments – Pt. 10
Introducing OpenSuSE into this process was a whim. Bad whim! Bad whim! Don’t listen to that whim! The real problem with not creating The Four Holy Documents up front is that you tend to get distracted by bright shiny objects. As you learned in my last post I decided to give Diamond a Debian build script/process. I’ve done a few of these over the years and firmly believe both CopperSpice and Diamond won’t be picked … CopperSpice Experiments – Pt. 10Read more
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CopperSpice Experiments – Pt. 9
Diamond text editor now has many new features, including backups. Here is a run-down. Yeah, it’s been a while. Life keeps getting in the way of actually writing something here. I’m also migrating from BlueHost.com through HostGator.com to inMotion hosting service. That gets its own blog post once complete. Despite all of that, a lot of code has changed in the repo. Just be sure you choose the diamond-themes branch. Themes work really well. Not … CopperSpice Experiments – Pt. 9Read more
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CopperSpice Experiments – Pt. 8
This post is actually what pushed the other two posts out the door. I wanted to write this one, but unless you understood how I got here, it would make no sense. In adding EDT numeric keypad support I’ve run headlong into a Qt design flaw I haven’t seen in years. Mainly, I haven’t seen it because I’ve been doing touchscreen development so the keyboard input stuff hasn’t matter. QKeyEvent doesn’t have a method that … CopperSpice Experiments – Pt. 8Read more