Archives for: March 2010
By basd on Mar 30, 2010 | In kde4, linux, opensuse | Send feedback »
KDE 4.4.2 is out. YAST did not offer it to my x64 machine, but the i686 is downloading 395 packages right now. (OpenSUSE 11.2 Factory repositories.) R we having fun yet?
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By basd on Mar 30, 2010 | In kde4, opensuse | Send feedback »
Idle minds are ... well, don't stay idle. Some time ago I experimented with various flavors of USB flash drive linux. These were not particularly successful due to my having to build the packages I wanted & the fact that I did not have a compu…
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By basd on Mar 30, 2010 | In linux, lxde | Send feedback »
Given that I'm using lxde on 4 computers and that customizing the desktop is time consuming, I've been studying the architecture so that I can hopefully replicate my desktops. The first thing I discovered, looking at ./config/lxpanel/LXDE/panels is tha…
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By basd on Mar 29, 2010 | In linux, opensuse, lxde | Send feedback »
So ... my kde 3.5 missing panel configurator occurs in build 83, but not build 32. I found another bash execution oddity in lxde: I have a bash script that runs in a terminal session that checks for an sshfs connection to my webserver. In KDE 4, the sc…
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By basd on Mar 28, 2010 | In kde4, linux, opensuse | Send feedback »
I am not alone in discovering the kde3 panel controls are gone. Using kcontroledit I learned that kcontrol launches "kcmshell panel" for panel options. Unfortunately, running that command gives me a featureless control window. "panel" is still an…
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By basd on Mar 27, 2010 | In linux, opensuse, lxde | Send feedback »
My kde 4.4.1 install continues to exhibit weirdness -- such as ramping the cpu to near 100% at idle. Not acceptable. So, I've been building lxde desktops on my computers that look as similar to my plasma layouts as possible, allowing me to use lxde d…
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By basd on Mar 21, 2010 | In linux, opensuse | Send feedback »
The thing that I liked about computer programs was that they were finite and one could understand them. Then I realized that with the millions and billions of lines of code we are using, they have become reflective of the world at large -- perhaps finit…
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By basd on Mar 18, 2010 | In linux, opensuse | Send feedback »
So ... after my upgrade to OpenSUSE 11.2, I suddenly realized I no longer had sopcast and qsopcast. So, I reinstalled.
Well, there were issues. Something rolled back glibc to an earlier version. Probably qsopcast, because it is probably not smart…
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By basd on Mar 3, 2010 | In arghhh!! | Send feedback »
My love-hate relationship with KDE 4 continues. KDE 4.4.1 has been released to fix some significant 4.4.0 bugs. (Why does that not surprise me? The analog clock now works ... and more important, I can actually see my screen -- although the brightness…
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By basd on Mar 3, 2010 | In linux, web 3.0?, cloud computing | Send feedback »
I came across jolicloud because I accidentally turned off my wireless card. Yeah, I know. I've written here before that I think forward-looking software needs to be more cloud-centric and less into splashy doo-dads. I'm about to write a post on my…
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By basd on Mar 3, 2010 | In linux, opensuse | Send feedback »
As mentioned, I've been using the lxde desktop on some of my computers.
Some things execute a bit faster. It picks up the autostart programs that I setup in KDE, so it launches my top of the screen kde 3.5 panel and nm-applet to access the wireles…
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By basd on Mar 2, 2010 | In linux, arghhh!!, off-topic | Send feedback »
I always thought the allegedly "on/off" switch for the Gateway LT3103u wireless was non-functional. That is, until I inadvertently shut it off. It's not a two-position switch, it's a "engage and release" switch. d'oh. So, I spent some time wondering…
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