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Author Archives: Peter
Slight E-Mail Hiccup
Having grown more than a little bit tired of how slow Evolution is at filtering emails, I decided to try the new Thunderbird. (I say “new” because I have not used it since it was version 1.5-ish.) Unfortunately, I accidentally … Continue reading
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Tagged email, evolution, inbox, offline, thunderbird, wtf
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ThinkPad T500: Initial Fedora Report – Marvelous!
Well, after receiving my ThinkPad T500, I set about tweaking the pre-installed Windows Vista, and spent most of the weekend attempting to get it dual-booting Vista and Fedora nicely. For better or worse, neither Fedora’s GRUB nor Windows’ BCD bootloader … Continue reading
Fedora 11: Recent X.org/Intel 965 Update Breakage
Those who have compiz (“Desktop Effects”) enabled on 965 GPUs should be very wary of today’s xorg-x11-server-1.6.3-4.fc11 (FEDORA-2009-8766) update. For some reason or another, it makes Compiz prone to crashing when starting up. The solution to this is to revert … Continue reading
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My First Laptop: A ThinkPad
Another summer has passed me by, and I still haven’t learned how to ride a bike nor how to swim properly. Alas, I suppose I’ll get to these eventually. I have kept one of my resolutions though. I finally splurged … Continue reading
Today’s Spanish Lesson, and Inquiry
“Paying attention” is an English idiom which means “to focus one’s attention on” or “to be attentive to.” Like other idioms, it does not translate literally into other languages, especially Spanish. (That is to say, “pagar atención” – from pagar, … Continue reading
CSUs to Cut Spring 2010 Admissions
This is absolutely crazy. Someone just posted it to our Facebook group: Lowering Enrollment: Budget Cuts Force California State University to Close 2010 Spring Admissions As part of an overall strategy to address an unprecedented budget reduction of $584 million … Continue reading
Backup Strategies
With my primary hard drive (a three-year old WD Raptor WD740) having been on life support, so to speak, for the last 3 months, I’ve been a lot more diligent about keeping backup copies of my data. Every couple of … Continue reading
Leonidas: On the Brink of Release
With Fedora 11 (“Leonidas”) released earlier today and Rawhide looking to the future, I find myself instead looking back at what has made Leonidas such an excellent release. With over 50 new features in this release (more than any previous … Continue reading
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Tagged Fedora, leonidas, omgawsum, youdevsareawesome
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Epiphany & WebKitGTK+: And so it begins…
I just noticed that a few hours ago, Matthias Clasen committed Epiphany 2.27.2 to Fedora’s CVS and in the process switched the build to using WebKitGTK+. instead of Gecko/XULrunner. This means that, once the switch is flipped for rawhide to … Continue reading
Recent Lack of Availability
Err. If you’ve tried to get in contact with me over the past week or so (email, bug report, IRC ping, et al.), please excuse my complete lack of response. Having just finished final exams, I’d been very unproductively relaxing … Continue reading
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I’m…geekin’ out!
Right, so I just got back from seeing the premier showing of the recent Star Trek film at the GardenWalk IMAX with a bunch of friends, and I’m completely geeking out. Yes, there were some plot flaws in it (such … Continue reading
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Tagged busy, Fedora, Klingon, omgawsum, star trek
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Offline After Nearly 7 Billion Rotations
(That’s slightly more rotations than there people on Earth! ) With Spring Break giving me some much-needed time off from classes, I had some time to install and test the recently-released Fedora 11 Beta. While I do think there are … Continue reading
The ‘E’s in “College” are for “Extra” and “Enjoyment”.
(I will try to make this more regular in the future, honestly!) In our previous College Survival Guide entry, we took a very brief look at the stark difference between life as a high school student and life as a … Continue reading
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CurvyLooks: What Do Users Want?
It has been nearly a year since the last release of my CurvyLooks theme. This isn’t from lack of ability or intent, but solely due to lack of necessity: Nothing has become broken or dysfunctional (to my knowledge) and I’ve … Continue reading
Accidental Fixes
“If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.” (Edsger W. Dijkstra) After fixing the notification-daemon bubbles (thanks, Martin!), I spent some time perusing through some of the other GConf settings … Continue reading
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Tagged bugs, gconf, irc, japanese, scim, xchat-gnome
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Not Impossible, just a bit Unlikely!
Apparently I’ve become really bad at this whole “regularly blogging’ thing. *sigh* I posted, a few weeks ago, about the cool new notification bubbles, but after updating yesterday and rebooting my computer, the beauty has vanished, just as quickly as … Continue reading
Introduction to College
I’m alive and well, I swear! Schoolwork and other life issues have swamped me quite efficiently over these past couple of weeks; but I’m okay! While searching for backpack recommendations on the Gentoo Off-The-Wall forums, I came to an interesting … Continue reading
Seeing is Believing.
For the longest time, the notify bubbles from various applications (such as Evolution’s new-mail and Rhythmbox’s song-change notices) have always been a simple white background with a blue or red (or other color, for various reasons) stripe across the left. … Continue reading
If a PC speaker beeps in a Fedora system and no one is around to hear it, is it still annoying?
Paul, John, and Joeren, I find that beeping so annoying that I simply eliminate that module entirely rather than disable it or blacklist it. To ensure that each new kernel update has its pcspkr module also removed, I append the … Continue reading
A Semester of Fun
Well, now that I’m nearly finished with the general-education requirements, this semester is shaping up to be quite a fun adventure. Aside from the slight tedium of taking General Chemistry, I’m also taking two math courses (“Advanced Topics in Linear … Continue reading