Something to do with open source software
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. […]
Open Source Software
Perhaps the most useful Songbird addon ever: The Exorcist
Mad props (to use some ‘hip’ language) to the developers of The Exorcist, a Media View plugin for Songbird that does two things, and does […]
Top 10 things I have learned since the start of this experiment
In a nod to Dave’s classic top ten segment I will now share with you the top 10 things I have learned since starting this […]
Gentoo updates and annoyances
After hearing about the recent MintCast mention of our experiment, I figured it was high time to post an update with what’s gone right and […]
Installing Gnome Do with Docky on openSUSE
Before I switched to Windows 7 for my laptop, I used a a dock software called RocketDock to manage my windows and commonly used desktop […]
How I solved my audio problems
Short answer: IRC and #fedora Long answer: As you may recall I have been without sound for quite some time now. Finally getting sick and […]
My audio doesn’t work anymore
Yup. Not sure why. It just happened. I have tried messing around in my audio settings and still nothing. In fact the only audio device […]
Armacycles Advanced
This afternoon Phil, Jon, Sasha and myself engaged in a little Tron-esque gameplay thanks to the awesome 3D recreation known as Armacycle Advanced or sometimes […]
The trouble with patching your kernel to fix a problem…
If you remember a while back I was having a world of trouble trying to get my ATi drivers to play nicely with my desktop […]
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 […]
Not entirely awful.
So after my initial three-hour fiasco of getting my mouse to work, Gentoo Linux is running in a stable manner on my system. My graphics […]
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 […]
The Fedora Megapost
Tyler B tries to install Fedora, get his ATi graphics card to work correctly, patches the kernel, enables Synaptics touchpad tap-click support and finally has everything working!
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, […]
Sitrep – Fedora: 1. Dana’s patience: 0.
As you might be able to tell from the title of this post, I feel like I’m fighting an uphill battle here. Through hummus. In […]
The Need for a Password Manager
On my Windows machine, I use a free program called KeePass to manage all of my passwords. It creates an encrypted file that contains all […]
Fedora HOOOOOOOO!
Hi, everyone! Dana here posting from a successful installation of Fedora 11. I’m a little disappointed that I didn’t get the option to install KDE […]
Back and ready for action
I’m back from an intensely relaxing and awesome holiday in our nation’s capital, Ottawa. I’d forgotten how close it was in proximity to Quebec – […]
Coming close
The experiment is set to begin in less than 10 days and now is the time to settle on all of those little decisions that still need to be made.
KDE 4.3 vs. Gnome 2.26: Slap fight!
Ding! Let the fight begin. In one corner, we have the only desktop environment I’ve used in Linux – Gnome 2.26, the standard for Ubuntu […]