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XFCE: A Bitch Session
After a full day of using XFCE as my new desktop environment, I have just a few complaints, handily summarized in the following ordered list: […]
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Testing out Testing
With everybody switching up their desktop environments this week, I decided that I’d take a shot at installing XFCE on my system. My initial research […]
Where did my Desktop go?!?!
My desktop used to have icons… And when I right-clicked on it, a fancy little menu came up that let me do things to it. […]
Impending Upgrades
Here’s another fun little tidbit – today I tried to use OpenOffice.org Writer seriously for the first time, and realized rather quickly that I was […]
Blackbery Sync Attempt #3: Compiling from Source
After my first two attempts at getting my Blackberry to sync with Mozilla Thunderbird, I got pissed off and went right to the source of […]
More XKCD
I swear that I’ve encountered this before… That is all.
Resolving the DNS Issue Once and For All
A little while ago, I wrote about problems that I was having with my laptop not resolving DNS requests. After I restarted today (because X11 […]
Barry: Round Two with the Blogosphere riding Shotgun
Given the problems that I’ve been having lately with getting my Blackberry calendar and contacts to synchronize with anything in Linux, I was quite surprised […]
Barry: The Open-Sourced Blackberry Utility
There is no denying that the installation process for the Barry project sucks. That said, the promise of having the ability to sync my blackberry […]
The Magic of Lenny Backports
This afternoon saw me in a really annoying situation. I was in a coffee shop, wearing a beret, and writing poetry, and couldn’t get a […]
DNS Not Satisfactory
While trying to connect to a remote webserver via SSH last night, I found that my machine refused to resolve the hostname to an IP […]
Mounting an NTFS-formatted External Drive
I have a Western Digital 250GB NTFS-formatted external hard drive that I use primarily to store backups of my Windows machine. Since I’m away from […]
Wireless Network Manager Woes
Debian Lenny ships with the Network Manager package, version 0.6.6-4, which for all intents and purposes is a well written and very useful network management […]
Eclipse Fails It
Man, Eclipse works great on Debian! It gives me this cool message on startup: JVM terminated. Exit code=127 /usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj/bin/java -Djava.library.path=/usr/lib/jni -Dgnu.gcj.precompiled.db.path=/var/lib/gcj-4.2/classmap.db -Dgnu.gcj.runtime.VMClassLoader.library_control=never -Dosgi.locking=none -jar /usr/lib/eclipse/startup.jar […]
How to not install XBMC on Debian Lenny
So tonight I got a terrible idea. I figured that I’d try to install XBMC, the awesome media centre app for modded Xbox consoles. Turns […]
Upgrading to Flash 10 in Debian
Even though the Debian community is very strict about only allowing free software in their repositories, my Iceweasel install came preloaded with Macromedia Flash 9. […]
A Pretty New Desktop Theme
This morning I spent some more time messing around with Compiz. I followed this tutorial to add an alternative repository to my sources list that […]
Finally Up and Running
As you may recall, last night, I ruined my system by manually editing the xorg.conf config file according to a sketchy tutorial on the Debian […]
Graphical Woes and a Bricked System
Today’s big task was to get rid of the Windows 3.1 look of the default GNOME theme by installing the Compiz Fusion window manager. First, […]
Disabling the PC Speaker Beep
If you’re like me, you’re still working on your certification as a Linux God. Until graduation day comes around, and you throw your penguin-festooned mortar […]