Joshua Woehlke's Posts
Dual 1280×1024 Ubuntu Wallpaper
I’m a huge fan of the default background for Ubuntu 13.10, but my current setup involves two 1280×1024 monitors and setting the same background for both doesn’t look quite how I’d like. With that in mind, I created a 2560×1024 image with a similar color palette and style in GIMP, and decided to share it […]
Dead Simple Command Scheduling with “at”
It’s way past when you should have gone to sleep, but you’d just like to update one more time, download this file, build and install it, and restart a couple of services. The bed is calling, though. Luckily, the notion that Linux users can work computers in their sleep is actually quite accurate. Let’s take […]
Installing Google Earth on Ubuntu 13.10 64-bit
Credit for this solution goes to an excellent forum post by scouser73 on Ubuntu Forums, which was in turn adapted from instructions by mc4man. Google has packages for Google Earth in 32- and 64-bit .deb variants available for download, but they seemingly inexplicably don’t work once installed, assuming they install at all. The 64-bit version […]
Fixing Google Fonts in Chrome for Windows
Update: This is actually all better now, and no longer relevant. How the times change! Google Fonts is a fantastic service, but there is one major problem with using it: Your custom fonts will render like crap in Chrome for Windows–hideous, deal-breaking crap. If you’re familiar with the effect, you’ll recognize immediately that the word […]