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25 Jul 2010

iHave

It has happened, I bought an iMac 27". What can I say? It's shiny, hardware feels solid and it seems to be working out of the box.

Since I needed a hardware replacement for my HP dc7100, which ran buggy with a lot of freezes. I wanted solid hardware, even on the outside (I mean, most hardware in the shops doesn't feel all that solid and I am often afraid to break something off).

So I glanced at the 27" iMac and figured, why not?

FYI, I found the wallpaper on imacwallpapers.com

30 May 2010

Space Invaders on Crunchbang

Wallpaper: space invaders (JPEG, 1680x1050)
Theme: Syscrash
Conky: .conkyrc
Conky font: ProFont (download)
Tint2: tint2rc

1 May 2010

Crunchbang 9.04.01

In anticipation of the upcoming release of Crunchbang 10 statler, I installed the current stable release Crunchbang 9.04.01 "janice" on my hp nx7400 laptop.

As expected, the installation was a breeze, I think it took about 15 - 20 minutes to complete. After tweaking OpenBox and conky a bit I ended up with the desktop shown in the screenshot below. It's nothing fancy, but functional and clean.

Theme: Loma
Wallpaper: Edge by *ether
Fonts: Sans 10, see also .fonts.conf
Conky: .conkyrc

24 Jan 2010

The Open-PC

Interesting, I might order one: http://open-pc.com/

23 Jan 2010

Mouse pointer track

Or, the art of auto-generated images by moving a mouse around. People are doing it on flickr too. Sounds silly, and it is exactly that.

11 Jul 2009

Notebook wiki

Notebook is an OS independent desktop wiki. No point and click technology, but with a syntax to learn.

For linux, there is a starkit version. So you need tclkit.
Howto install tclkit:

wget http://www.equi4.com/pub/tk/8.4.15/tclkit-linux-x86.gz
gunzip tclkit-linux-x86.gz
sudo mv tclkit-linux-86.gz /usr/bin/tclkit
cd /usr/bin
sudo chmod ug+x tclkit

Command for launching notebook2.1.3:

./tclkit <path where notebook2.1.3 is located>/notebook2.1.3.kit

Or put it in a script:

#!/bin/sh
./tclkit <path where notebook2.1.3 is located>notebook2.1.3.kit

For the other OS's, see: http://notebook.wjduquette.com

I am using notebook in combination with Dropbox and DropboxPortable for portable mobility. One disadvantage: I need to carry an USB flashdrive with me, which is easy too loose.

Strictly, it is not necessary to use it in combination with an USB device, but it avoids the installation of Dropbox on my workmachine. Also, in case there isn't an internet connection availbable, i still can use Notebook.

Homepage developer: wjduquette.com
Download notebook2.1.3: http://notebook.wjduquette.com

29 Apr 2009

Creative Zen X-Fi on Ubuntu

To get a Creative Zen X-Fi working on Ubuntu 9.04 isn't exactly plug-and-play, but with some searching it wasn't that hard either.

I followed the suggestions made in this forum thread.I first installed gnomad2 from the standard repositories, which also installed libmtp8 and mtp-tools. Gnomad2 worked fine, but unfortunately the Zen wasn't recognized by Rhythmbox and/or Banshee.

I noticed the version of the standard libmtp in the repositories is 0.3.0, and not the 0.3.6 as suggested on page 2 of the same forum thread, so i added the PPA to the sources list, included the PGP signature, did and apt-get update and installed the latest version for jaunty, (0.3.7). As a final touch, the MTP plug-in in Rhythmbox was enabled.

After a reboot, plugged in the Zen, started Rhythmbox, the device got recognized and the syncing sequence was initiated.

25 Apr 2009

Ubuntu system beep

Howto get rid of the loud and obnoxious system beep you hear when you restart or shutdown the machine

sudo rmmod pcspkr
echo 'blacklist pcspkr' | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=7161976

5 Apr 2009

TweetDeck "blank window" issue on 32-bit Gnome

The TweetDeck "blank window" issue is known on KDE and 64-bit Ubuntu, but not so much on 32-bit Ubuntu. After searching for a long time, I fixed it by removing everything inside the ~/.appdata dir.

rm -r Adobe
rm cookie_file.txt
rm -r TweetDeckFast.F9107117265DB7542C1A806C8DB837742CE14C21.1

Then I removed Adobe AIR and TweetDeck using Synaptic. After installing both, TweetDeck welcomed me with the login window.

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