Archive for May, 2009

Rotated Text in Java Swing 2D

Friday, May 15th, 2009

I was, um....Googling myself....and found an old post I made to comp.lang.java.programmer in 1999, answering someone's question about how to draw rotated text in Swing. I looked around, and ten years later, there still doesn't seem to be much easily-found information on this. So, here it is again.... I just worked this ...

Turning Off Touchpad Tap and Scroll in Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

I recently upgraded both of my laptops (work and home) to Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope). Both laptops are Dells, with Synaptic touchpads. The default installation enables tapping and scrolling via the touchpad. For me, both of these features get in the way, and I always turn them off. In previous Ubuntu versions, this required ...