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		<title>kde4 and a blockage for arch blogging</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t really hit any snags with installing Arch, which leaves me with little to blog about the process.  I&#8217;m slowly copying over stuff from my laptop and my desktop Slackware install, which is tedious.  For bringing over Firefox stuff, the extensions FEBE, CLEO, and OPIE have been extremely helpful.
I&#8217;ve installed The Chakra Project&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://qblog.remarqs.net/2009/06/06/kde4-and-a-blockage-for-arch-blogging/</link>
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		<title>arch xorg and alsa</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Configuring xorg and alsa went without much to write about.  But since I&#8217;m posting tedious details, here&#8217;s the not much.
With help from hal, the latest xorg stuff is reported to work without a config file for a lot of people.  After installing X, I tried that. X started, but with the wrong resolution, and the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://qblog.remarqs.net/2009/06/01/arch-xorg-and-alsa/</link>
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		<title>arch and uvesafb</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since I&#8217;m getting large sets of packages to install on a different computer, I was stuck with some time to spend at Arch&#8217;s virtual console.  I installed lynx and elinks so I could read some news, but I found it a bit tough with the eighty-column display.  I had planned on making uvesafb work at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://qblog.remarqs.net/2009/05/31/arch-and-uvesfb/</link>
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		<title>into the arch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m trying out Arch GNU/Linux, with an eye toward switching my desktop to it from Slackware.  Arch is supposed to give vanilla installs of software and leave it up the the user to configure however is wanted. Arch has a package manager which resolves dependencies and can work with build scripts.  And Arch uses a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://qblog.remarqs.net/2009/05/30/into-the-arch/</link>
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		<title>pricelessware cds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t use Windows® much anymore, but when I did I got a lot of good freeware pointers from the newsgroup alt.comp.freeware.  For many years now, the group has put together a list of freeware called the Pricelessware List. For the last five years, folks there have also compiled CDs with a lot of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://qblog.remarqs.net/2009/02/26/pricelessware-cds/</link>
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		<title>colorful command prompts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since I started out with Gentoo, I&#8217;m used to colors in virtual consoles and terminal emulators.  There&#8217;s a small but vocal group of Gentooers who hate them and switch everything to monochrome, but I couldn&#8217;t live with that at this point.  Slackware sticks with basic white-on-black, so I have to tweak things a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://qblog.remarqs.net/2008/05/25/colorful-command-prompts/</link>
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		<title>nvidia drivers pain then joy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a GeForce 8600 GTS so I need nVidia&#8217;s binary driver.  (Well, for values of &#8220;need&#8221; which include needing to run at full resolution and have a tolerable display.)  Just downloading and running the installer from nVidia has worked up to now for me with Slackware, but not this time, after I had compiled [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://qblog.remarqs.net/2008/05/19/nvidia-drivers-pain-then-joy/</link>
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		<title>usb drive annoyance with kde and udev</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As it turns out, there&#8217;s really very little to blog about regarding my Slackware 12.1 installation.  Almost everything Just Works.
Update: I gave up on the approach below and solved the problem by modifying the kdeeject script per comment 13 in this Gentoo bug report.  This seems a lot better than screwing with the device&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://qblog.remarqs.net/2008/05/13/usb-drive-annoyance-with-kde-and-udev/</link>
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		<title>nVidia and xorg and hp1020 done</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a GeForce 8600 GTS video card. Grabbing the latest nVidia drivers (right now, 169.12) and following nVidia&#8217;s instructions worked fine.  I&#8217;d never let nVidia&#8217;s installer autoconfigure xorg for me, but I gave it a shot this time, and it turned out well.  It left the default resolutions at 1024&#215;768, but it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://qblog.remarqs.net/2008/05/10/nvidia-and-xorg-and-hp1020-done/</link>
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		<title>back into the slack</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d been doing most of my work on my laptop.  I wanted to play the most recent Half-Life episode on the desktop, which meant installing Windows.   It was a huge hassle installing Windows XP, much worse than any Linux install this century, and part of it was to destroy everything on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://qblog.remarqs.net/2008/05/10/back-into-the-slack/</link>
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