John Cartwright I am typing this in Ubuntu Lucid Lynx alpha and despite the problems I had with the Nvidia drivers and having to use the driver downloaded from the Nvidia website instead of the supplied driver which failed to install, I am happy with it so far, the grub2 menu is not as slow as the … Read more
Just switched to the AmiWM desktop for my Linux installation, I am typing this in a custom build of Emacs. I built this from source and it is good for a first try, I need to get the Xaw3d development packages and some more X development packages to get more features, but it works very … Read more
I have just installed Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope once more, and I will see how I go with this, I have just installed the ubuntu-restricted-extras package and I should be able to play just about any format I want to. My Windows XP installation is playing up so I sacrificed the disk space occupied by Windows … Read more
If only quake2 looked like this. Site powered by RSS.
I have found a site here I found useful when I had to install Xmms on Ubuntuu. http://www.pvv.ntnu.no/~knuta/xmms/ I ran apt-get update after following the instructions and it worked. Site powered by RSS.
I have been working on my website and fixing up the title picture and various html fixes and keeping busy. I hope you like it. Site powered by RSS.
New Metacity theme. I have just added a new metacity theme at: http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=62338. This is a theme using SVG graphics. It is different looking, but quite good too. My own take on a Gnome Metacity theme.
I have just got more work done on my facility.wad and I have got some 256*256 pixel textures which works very well with prboom 2.4. I tried this with the latest Zdoom and it crashes, so better to use prboom to play this wad. http://www.doomworld.com/idgames/index.php?id=15922. This map is quite a good looking level and worth … Read more
Just upgraded to a new 80 gigabyte hard drive to replace my old and worn drive which was quite small and not very fast. Here is my partition layout. 2-:$> df -Hla Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 33G 2.4G 30G 8% / proc 0 0 0 – /proc sysfs 0 0 0 … Read more
Just tried to use the Gnome rhythmbox program to play some mp3’s and it will not work properly as it needs to use OSS and I am using kernel 2.6.16.2 and I have an ALSA based system now. And I need to configure it for ALSA but I do not have gnome installed so I … Read more
Here is a screen shot of my aforementioned Linspire desktop. http://www.geocities.com/hungry_mancubus/1.jpeg 1280×1024 Jpeg. This desktop uses quite a good theme and well worth the 5 minutes or so it takes to load it up and get it running. Site powered by RSS.
I have just started using a Linspire 5.0 live CD when I am browsing the web and it seems to be the best way to browse the web safely. It has Mozilla 1.6 and OpenOffice.org 1.1.3 as well as an outstanding Kde desktop. And it auto-detects the network settings and mounts my USB thumb drives … Read more