Ever since the last system update (which included xorg-1.10.1 and nvidia-drivers-270.41.03), I have had an annoying problem regarding desktop drawing. Any time that I open LXterminal, a black box the same size as the default terminal window appears in the upper-left corner of my primary display. Interestingly, it only seems to happen when I open …
Tag: software
Apr 29 2011
Ripping woes
Well it hasn’t exactly been the most fun of days in the world of troubleshooting. I bought a bunch of used CDs recently, and decided that I needed to rip them to my new machine. I started on the process, but then three of the new discs didn’t rip. They just sat there. I put …
Apr 28 2011
Epson Perfection V30 scanner inside a VM
I had forgotten about my scanner that I bought a while back for scanning old family photos. Since scanner support in Linux (via the SANE backend) is not all that great, and considering I often wanted to manipulate the photos in Photoshop, I rarely even hooked it up to my main computer. Now that I …
Thought for the Moment
