Today is my last day at work. Tomorrow I pack my bags and make the 90 minute trip up the East Coast Mainline to my parents house. Unfortunately Ellen won't be with me, she'll be making the considerably longer trip from Stanstead to Dublin. As we're not spending the actual day together we decided to have an early Christmas yesterday. We tried to ( Read more... )

It's almost Christmas, so why not make your KDE desktop all snowy?

The first step is to emerge/apt-get/yum (delete as appropriate) xsnow.

Next up you'll want to make it run when you log into your machine. Create a file in /home/%u/.kde/Autostart (where %u is your username) called xsnow-run. Add the following code to this file:

#!/bin/bash ( Read more... )