Archives for: September 2010, 09

dropbox oops

By basd on Sep 9, 2010 | In arghhh!! | Send feedback »

So, one of the issues in synchronizing my lxde panels is having the right icons.  Not all of the computers have the same set of icons.  I decided to solve this problem by actually keeping a folder of icons in the dropbox collection so that every computer… more »

yast repositories opensuse

By basd on Sep 9, 2010 | In opensuse | Send feedback »

OpenSuse keeps moving repositories, even repositories that are in their automatic add "community" repositories in Yast.  It's a bit of a fail.  On top of that, I noticed that the rest of my repositories were not refreshing when one repository failed beca… more »

the value of xkill

By basd on Sep 9, 2010 | In linux, gnome, lxde, jolicloud | Send feedback »

KDE3 used to have a hotkey to pop up a little skull and crossbones cursor, which -- if you clicked on a stalled or runaway application (well, any application), would kill it.  Very useful -- especially when there was a much bigger problem with runaway ap… more »

a tiny percent of 1.67%

By basd on Sep 9, 2010 | In kde4, linux, gnome, cloud computing, lxde, jolicloud | Send feedback »

I read somewhere that linux users make up 1.67% of computer users.  Whoa!  IzWeAwesum? And then again, those of us who seem to leave a trail of (old but running) computers at multiple locations that we want to "synchronize" are probably, what? 1.67% of t… more »