Gedit document words autocompletion plugin

I followed a submission to reddit the other day highlighting a few choice plugins for gedit, as I am fond of using the default GNOME text editor. One plugin in particular caught my eye, the document words autocompletion plugin, written by Perriman. Retyping my inventive variable names (not to mention the oft flowery default php [...]

Posted on February 1, 2009 at 12:22 am by mcmlxxii · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Nvidia 180 on Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex

EDIT: It seems the packages needed are in Intrepid updates now, so as long as they are enabled in System > Applications > Software Sources they should be installed with a simple sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx-180 As a long-time (since Gutsy) follower of Ubuntu bug 99508, the one about the badly [...]

Posted on December 26, 2008 at 12:11 am by mcmlxxii · Permalink · 4 Comments
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Synaptics touchpad, SHMConfig, xorg.conf and Ubuntu Intrepid 8.10

EDIT – Please note that this post only refers to the 64 bit version of Ubuntu. Some significant changes have been happening to the X server over the past couple of releases of Ubuntu. One of the most noticeable alterations has been the removal of the xorg.conf file from the default Ubuntu install (edit – [...]

Posted on November 7, 2008 at 8:55 am by mcmlxxii · Permalink · 8 Comments
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