Monthly Archives: June 2007

Vista’s not all bad

Before you freak out and leave a million comments about how terrible it is, I’m here to tell you that while it does seem to have its shortcomings it does appear to be a lot better than its predecessors. My … Continue reading

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Nimbus Theme = Sexy

So I was reading Planet Larry, which still hasn’t updated my feed, and I saw a post by Mr. Flameeyes. In it he talked about the default Gnome theme for Solaris called Nimbus. Having never used Solaris I had never … Continue reading

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GDM Themes: The Easy Way

As requested by a commenter in my last post I’m going to give a run down on how I created my GDM theme with the Mercedes-Benz picture. First things first, this is really easy to do. You don’t have to … Continue reading

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A GPL Lesson

Okay, so I’m not a lawyer, and I don’t pretend to be. So when it comes to licenses I tend to do what everyone else appears to do and hope I don’t get a nasty e-mail one day because I’ve … Continue reading

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My first GDM Theme

The screenshot above is of my first GDM theme. You won’t see it for download anywhere though because I don’t own that picture and I don’t want any copyright issues. Although I do see screenshots on websites like Gnome-Look.org that … Continue reading

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Broken Laptop (with pic)

There you have it. That’s my broken laptop. I semi-promised I would post pictures of it and there she is. In all her broken glory. Again the whole in which you screw the screw into on the back of the … Continue reading

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Sabayon Package Manager

This isn’t entirely Gentoo related but close enough. It would appear that like so many actual Gentoo users, Sabayon Linux is also giving up on Portage. According to this update on their forums they plan on it doing double duty … Continue reading

Posted in entropy, news, paludis, sabayon | 2 Comments

Its offical

I have changed my blogs address on all the places I could remember it being listed. That is all the forums and wikis I know its posted on. Not that I expect anyone to go looking but if you run … Continue reading

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The most dreaded install error

* To use g15daemon, you need to compile your kernel with uinput support. * Please enable uinput support in your kernel config, found at: * * Device Drivers -> Input Device … -> Miscellaneous devices -> User level driver support. … Continue reading

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Safari on Windows

I am ashamed to admit I didn’t think of this first because the idea seems brilliant to me. Last I read the number one piece of software used on Mac was MS Office. Why then, if your Apple, not put … Continue reading

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