It wasn't all that long ago that I declared my experiment with desktop Linux over. Well, I'm at it again - Ubuntu instead of Debian this time. Actually, I haven't noticed much of a difference between the two yet, apart from the installer and the default theme ( Read more... )

One 1Gb Viking CF card popped through the door this morning. I'm installing Debian on it at the moment. Wonder how many flash memory writes an install involves? It's never been something I've had to worry about before ( Read more... )

Yay, the new router works nicely. Only took a couple of minutes to plug it in, untangle ethernet cables and plug them in, then run around setting clients to DHCP (I'd used static IPs under Linux.) A couple more minutes setting up WEP, and I was all set ( Read more... )

The Linux server which I keep in my bedroom is getting on my nerves. The hard drive has a really annoying whine, and tonight something on the server keeps accessing it, just under once per second, so that the repetitive 'drrt' noises of the hard drive heads drift in and out of synch with my alarm clock's ticking. I'm already finding it hard to ( Read more... )

Today was pretty random. Registered for Uni, bumping into Trailstar in the process, then posted the Kat circuit board to the US. Coming out of the Post Office, it was four o'clock, I had a little while to kick about in town, and I'd been researching mobile phone options the night before, so I popped into Phones4U to ask about the cheapest way to ( Read more... )

I just switched neko's desktop environment from KDE to XFCE. Whoah, my 500MHz laptop actually feels like a usable computer now! Plus, XFCE is rather pretty, in a nice simple way. It reminds me of Gnome, only it does what I want it to, mostly (the only issue I have so far is that the minimum size taskbar is a bit too chunky for my tastes... I'd turn ( Read more... )

Three in a row
KDE is shiny
Arcturus vs Neko: 1 2 3I mentioned that I bought a new laptop. It's been named Neko, with the rationale that it's small, black, sleek and cute. Over the last few days I've installed Linux and KDE (after a brief brush with Gnome that reminded me why I don't use it, even though it's so pretty) and had a few stabs at ( Read more... )

I now have another laptop. This is my fourth ^^; (old P233 from surgery (Angstrom, which is now my server), the desktop replacement lump (Arcturus), a P2xx I got for free from System Support because its HD is faulty, and now this ( Read more... )

I've been watching with dismay over the last few years as the number of books I read a year drops more and more. I blame it on an always-on Internet connection: it's sometimes just far too easy to switch on the laptop and find a quick distraction, or an essay or fictional piece if I want to read something longer ( Read more... )

It's been a while since I last made an entry, so this is likely to be rather big...

( th:at cafe... )