9 patch images in Android are great but if you happen to have a family of graphics to convert, it can get pretty tedious. I had a collection of button graphics that needed converting to 9 patches using the same stretchable regions. Rather than do it all by hand with Photoshop or GIMP (and inevitably …
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From a fresh install of Kubuntu 11.10, attempting to update your software through the “Software Updates” dialog will fail due to lack of permissions. To resolve this, run sudo apt-get install polkit-kde-1 The Software Updates dialog will then correctly ask for an administrator password so it can make changes to the system.
Recently I got a new ASUS P8Z 68-V motherboard and CPU, and had been having some strange network issues with it when running Gentoo Linux. The problems included connection failures after random periods of time and generally slow download speeds. The only way to get the connection running again after it failed (which was every …
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Checking the files installed by a package is easy enough with the Synaptic package manager (Right-click package > properties > installed files tab). Here’s how to get that information without leaving the comfort (cough) of your bash terminal: $ dpkg-query -L package_name For example: $dpkg-query -L flashplugin-installer /. /usr /usr/lib /usr/lib/xulrunner /usr/lib/xulrunner/plugins /usr/lib/mozilla /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins /usr/lib/iceape …