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IceWM
After a light window manager roundup in the latest LXF (Issue #103) I decided to give IceWM another shot. I had looked at it once before and found it to both be bare and lacking any programs in the IceWM->Programs menu. It loaded up ridiculously fast, which was nice. Unfortunately, for some strange reason, loading…
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Aunt #6’s Computer
Here’s the computer I built back in January:
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Vietnamese Zodiac
In celebration of the new year, and to solve a problem that I explain on the page, here’s a program to figure out which Zodiac animal corresponds to each year: Vietnamese Zodiac I’m still working some kinks out such as the fact that unicode is currently not working on my blog so depending on whether…
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Happy Lunar New Year!
It’s the year of the rat!
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Another example of when the command line trums the GUI
Whenever you’re working with the file directory structure or with text in general, you can’t do any better than using the command line. For example, I was recently copying a bunch of files off of some old CDs because I was noticing that they were starting to develop bit-rot. (I couldn’t access all the files…
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Another Look at Thoggen (Part 3)
So, to wrap up a review I started a long time ago. So I took a good look at the files and I had an xvid at 704×400 (I cropped a little) and an ogg theora with 720×480 resolution. Generally speaking, the ogg theora had much better audio/video sync. Throughout the entire film, the audio…
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The future of Compiz-Fusion
Compiz-Fusion, as you surely know is responsible for eye candy on GNU/Linux distros such as windows that turn into paper airplanes when the user minimizes it to turning the desktop into a spinning cube. There’s something about the wobbly windows that provides some a sense of inertia that just makes things feel a little more…
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Some more quotes
“He says ‘hello’. That’s what I look for in a stalker.” – Lauren “I think I was a little boy growing up” – Lauren “You had mad cow disease?” – T to Lauren Blogged with Flock
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drop the bomb productions gets a facelift
After having tried drupal for a couple of years on an unrelated site, I came to see that it would be a great way to develop a new site for drop the bomb productions. After about two days of converting the site over, you can now see the results. I think it results in a…
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Haiku Vs Syllable Part 2
I’ve tried a bunch of times, but apparently something’s wrong with the Syllable VMWare files and LiveCD because I was unable to get either to run. They both appear to be missing a bunch of necessary files.
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GPL shows benefits in unexpected places!
When most people think of the GPL, if they think of it at all, they tend to think of Linux and perhaps other operating systems. However, there are many benefits to using the GPL for programs on a smaller level. For example there is a Go Application in Facebook. This programmer could have gone…
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KDE 4 is out!
KDE 4.0 was released today! After seeing screenshots like the ones I want to share with you, I can’t wait to try it. Too bad Fedora won’t be including it until Fedora 9 in April. All of the following images were produced by/for KDE.org. I’m just borrowing them for illustrative purposes. First of all, here’s…
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Haiku Vs Syllable Part 1
(Note: I did the Haiku Part of this review in June of 2007, and didn’t get around to posting it, so some of these issues may have been resolved by now) Everyone knows Windows, Apple, GNU/Linux and the BSDs. These computer operating systems have been around for 10-20 or so years and people know what…
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iPod Shuffle
For years I had been saying that I would not buy an iPod product. After all, they sell music in the iTunes music store with DRM on it. All of my music on my Linux computer is in the OGG format and it can’t be played with iPods. However, when it came time to buy…