Despite my hatred of web forums, there are some I need to visit fairly regularly. For example, while I generally use Gentoo’s user mailing list if I have a question, searching the Gentoo forums can turn up a lot of good info. It also turns up a lot of avatars I don’t want [...]
I don’t usually have a strong reaction to deaths of people I don’t know, but Thursday’s unexpected death of Wake Forest’s Coach Skip Prosser did get to me. College basketball has become too much about money, but as far as I could ever tell he was one of the really good guys in the [...]
I don’t play games in GNU/Linux too much, but I really wanted to have Fish Fillets NG. It’s mind-bending in a very satisfying way (which unfortunately also makes it a very effective time-sink). This was the first Slackware install that gave me some fits. Fillets needs Lua libraries; I knew that [...]
Overheard conversation snippet: “He has a will-not-play list with songs like ‘Bela Lugosi’s Dead‘ by Bauhaus that are so overplayed.”
Now I don’t know whether to be happy it’s on the will-not-play list or unhappy that it’s overplayed enough to get on such a list.
I was just about to go on a rant about why I hate web forums. There are more than one reason, but, but:
‘Nuff said.
I’ve played with Compiz with a few livecds and I like it, so when I noticed Slackware 12 came with Compiz 0.5 I decided to use it on my desktop.
I got it running more-or-less ok using this howto posting as a guide. Without GNOME, it’s very difficult and frustrating to tweak the Compiz settings. [...]
I guess I’ll continue to blog about setting up Slackware 12 on my desktop. I’ve just installed the driver for my cheap Hewlett-Packard LaserJet 1020. I call it cheap; it’s a very low-end USB laser printer, but it does a great job for me. Don’t buy it from links on HP’s [...]
As I’m using my new installation of Slackware 12, I keep remembering some little things I want to do, but when I have spare time I can’t remember what they were. So I need a to-do list. /me loves BasKet Note Pads. It was already installed on my laptop, so that’s [...]
Since installing Gentoo GNU/Linux on my laptop, I’d found myself using my desktop less and less. Thanks to a really stupid thing I did a while back, it only had Windows XP installed; that was fine for a while, but eventually I found myself opening the laptop every time I wanted to do [...]