Monthly Archives: December 2006

Trying out my new Christmas hardware

So I got some new hard ware for Christmas, which I won’t review by the way for another day or too. Anyway, I was tired of my Gentoo install and didn’t want to go through the trouble of making it … Continue reading

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RubyRipper

RubyRipper! Sounds nice doesn’t it? It was actually recommended to me on the Gentoo Forums when I was having trouble using Ogg/Vorbis using Grip. Well before we get to far a long, lets just say Grip and RubyRipper are not … Continue reading

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The Wolvix Wiki and I

I do not currently possess a wealth of Linux knowledge but what I do have I like to share with the community. The knowledge was freely given to me thus I like to freely give it to others. So what … Continue reading

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Background Art

I’ve never considered myself much of an artist. I drawed and colored as a child but I’d hardly consider that art. Lately though I’ve been trying my hand at creating some custom background art for the Wolvix distrobution of Linux. … Continue reading

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osdir.com is being sold

Well, if you haven’t heard the news yet, you have now. Osdir.com is being sold although to whom I do not know. This is good and bad for me personally. I was a moderator at the osdir.com forums, so now … Continue reading

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Lack of motivation…

So at the recommendation of a very attractive female whom I’ve never met, never got the name of, and will without a doubt never meet again I bought the book Wicked by Gregory Macguire. Yeah… not what was expecting. I … Continue reading

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Paludis and Portage

My Paludis overlay still won’t finish. I tried remerging it, of course making sure to use FEATURES=”test”, and it still did not help any. Paludis is a fickle beast. Every time I get something going with it, something else breaks … Continue reading

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Paludis on AMD64

So yesterday I installed Paludis on my AMD64 machines downstairs. Everything went smoothly till I attempted to do the initial sync. I won’t lie. It failed. Ironically enough it failed attempting to sync the paludis package. Irony can be no … Continue reading

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Transparent Colors with aDesklets

That is not the best screenshot, I’m sorry, but right now its all got for an example. I have somehow managed to get transparent colors using my aDesklets. It happened while editing my config file to try to work better … Continue reading

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A linux Christmas

The semester is finally over. I have finished all of my exams and I am now at home. Thus the semester is finally officially over. Whats that mean for me? A lot more time to tinker with Linux. Whats that … Continue reading

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