Category: icewm

attack of the killer bloatware

The thing that annoys me most is -- computers that used to work just fine, updated to death.  If you are going to be on the internet, for security reasons, you have to keep your computer up-to-date.  That means a Windows computer is dead in uh, oh, about… more »

a month worth of blogging

Soooo ... My actual job morphed from nothing much to do into chained-to-desk 24/7 (except when driving like madman to next location).  Yikes!  No time to blog -- but lots of things to comment on. I discovered by accident that the updater applet… more »

ya know ...

Using other people's software is a lot like going exploring in the real world. You don't know what you might find and once you find it you don't know how you might use it productively.I hope in making these posts to help others find ways to use software… more »

awesomely awesome

I will have far to go to implement eyeOS and integrate it into my existing paradigm. But so far, it's great! Here's the thing: As mentioned earlier in this blog, I've been working with an Arch/Chakra install on a really old and underpowered computer.… more »

new problem du jour

Suddenly kio-imap4 was sucking up 48% of my cpu. What?KMail had been acting a bit weird. I logged out and logged back in -- didn't solve the problem. I had to reboot the computer. Dang. (Just for the record, I was running a Gnome login with IceW… more »