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Supreme Commander 2 Hidden Objectives List
Update 2010-03-26: Missed “Master of Pawns” hidden objective off of Cybran mission 6. Added it.
Trying to find and complete all the secret missions in SupCom 2? Here’s a quick and dirty list of them all!
This information is copied from the map files within the SupCom 2 directory.
Feel free to copy and paste — a link back to …
Gnome Power Manager Hides Do Nothing
Found this rather handy post that tells you what to do in newer versions of Gnome Power Manager, which for some reason hide the Do Nothing options as default.
Personally I find it irritating as the battery readout in all the distros of Linux I’ve used on my Eee report the battery at 0% over half an hour before the …
Take Control of Your Settings — Configuring Synaptics Touchpads and Making GNOME Respect Them
Update 2010-05-28: If you’re using Fedora 13, then the configuration for synaptics touchpads is done through what is practically the old xorg.conf method. (This is as udev now handles devices instead of HAL.) Check out the Fedora Wiki for more information.
The Problem
Today I’ve been trying to configure the touchpad on my Eee PC 901 to my liking. It’s …
Stop Exact Audio Copy Crashing on Windows 7
When I tried to rip a disc using Exact Audio Copy on Windows 7 x64, I found it kept crashing as soon as the rip tried to start. Bummer.
Remembering the previous times I’ve used EAC, when you click a button to start a rip, it asks you where you want to save the ripped files.
Turns out if …
Delete Songs From Smart Playlists in iTunes
Update 2009-11-23: Corrected Mac keyboard keys. I don’t own a Mac myself, but a friend of mine tells me that iTunes defies the normal behaviour of many other Apple applications. Probably because it’s ancient and desperately needs an update.
Made a smart playlist to find songs you want to delete, then found that the delete function no longer works?
Just …
