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GUIDE: Convert book-style SWFs to PDFs with gfx2gfx
Hold it right there!
It's been nearly three years since this post, and in those three years, I found the time to write 177 lines of code. Now, with my fork, gfx2gfx-pdftext, you can convert SWFs to PDFs, while preserving the text, resulting in… »
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Adventures in Arch: Part 3 - What the GNOME?
A Choice
In my previous Adventures in Arch post, I mentioned that I was using XFCE. Because XFCE is cool. However, XFCE got its fame for being a ‘lightweight’ distro, and I had originally chosen it to reduce my CPU load. After noticing, however,… » -
GUIDE: Easier League of Legends Installation Using PlayOnLinux
Preamble
PlayOnLinux is a brilliant wrapper for WINE, allowing for the easy installation of innumerable Windows programs on Linux. Of these, my most recent install was League of Legends, which, of course, does not have a native Linux release. PlayOnLinux installs and runs it… » -
Adventures in Arch: Part 2 - Is It Working Yet?
Let's Get Some Hybrid Graphics Up In Here!
if [ ! -f /etc/X11/xorg.conf ]; then
sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf.fglrx /etc/X11/xorg.conf
fi
startx /usr/bin/openbox-session -- :1How simple was that? And my script for starting X on my integrated card is about the same (only using XFCE,… » -
FIX: Crash when using acpi_call with AMD discrete graphics card
Issue Description
Using acpi_call to disable and enable AMD discrete graphics card sometimes causes system to crash. Problem does not occur with a simple ‘disable card, enable card, run X’ test, but does sometimes occur if a period of time (in which the computer is… »