In case you’re interested, here’s a screenshot of my Gnome desktop. This will also be a fine test of your browser’s standards compliance, as the image is a .png 😉

Posted on July 11th, 2003 by admin
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I’ve always been a KDE man. I’ve never really used GNOME, unless I absolutely had to (as some apps don’t port easy across desktops, due to the different engines used by the desktops — QT for KDE, and the GTK for GNOME). But then I read this interview yesterday with one of the Ximian developers […]

Posted on June 4th, 2003 by admin
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I don’t know if anyone has been following the SCO/IBM lawsuit, but it took a very interesting twist today. First, a little update if you haven’t been following it…..SCO has claimed that they own the copyrights and patents for Unix System V, and that IBM (who has licensed that code base) has donated parts of […]

Posted on May 28th, 2003 by admin
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I finally got around to installing Gentoo on the second hard drive in my PC today. Note the verb tense — installing — rather than installed — because two and half hours later it is still installing. There are two selling points for Gentoo. One, the initial download is small. Even if you download the […]

Posted on May 26th, 2003 by admin
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I still don’t have a fully functioning sound system on my machine at work. I can listen to my MP3s, but I have to restart the sound server every 20 minutes because the driver for my Soundblaster Live 5.1 card is only an evaluation copy. “What gives?” you ask….”Don’t you work on a linux box? […]

Posted on May 22nd, 2003 by admin
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Here’s an interesting idea. The RIAA Radar bookmarklet will allow you to see if the RIAA will take some of your precious money when you buy a CD from Amazon. The bookmarklet will query a database and let you know if the artist is a member of RIAA. I love this idea, but how many […]

Posted on May 20th, 2003 by admin
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Well, Slackware to the rescue. Thanks to some slightly more useful error messages during the install, I discovered that some of the machine’s RAM had gone bad. I removed the suspect RAM, and *poof*, Slackware 9 is installing. I’ve decided to give ReiserFS a whirl for the filesystems. Not like I’m running a 1TB drive […]

Posted on May 3rd, 2003 by admin
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Well, it’s true. My linux machine is dead. Dead-dead-deadski. After one last feeble fsck attempt, I will reinstall Mandrake 9. Don’t know when though, with the anklebiter countdown started.

Posted on April 30th, 2003 by admin
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I finally got the sound working on my linux machine at the new job today. The secret, you ask? Well, if you have a Soundblaster Live 5.1 card (shipped with many newer Dells), save yourself a lot of hassle and go directly here and download the Open Sound System driver for that card. Sadly, the […]

Posted on April 22nd, 2003 by admin
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Big changes are afoot for Mozilla. Lots of good news too, mostly in the form of ditching the kitchen-sink model that has made Mozilla a bloated process-vampire. A few interesting bits: * Phoenix will become the browser for Mozilla. * The yet-unreleased Minotaur will become “Thunderbird” and become the mail client. * The development model […]

Posted on April 2nd, 2003 by admin
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