September 2002 – Kasperian Moving Parts

screenshots from days of yore…

Tuesday September 24, 2002

kay! So here’s the part where I show you some examples of what my working environment looks like. =:) Mind you, these aren’t all THAT exciting, and are intended only to give you an example of the flexibility that you have in running FreeBSD/Linux/UNIX/anything other than Microsoft’s Windows (sometimes) Operating Systems. I say “(sometimes)” because they are as a general rule SO horribly unstable compared to FreeBSD/Linux/UNIX. Anyhoo, enough talking… here’s the pic’s. Feel free to click on the images and up will pop a new window with the full-sized graphic (1024×768)…. Let’s see…. In this shot, I’m developing the banner for my site in gimp while running artwiz‘s “cliche” theme for blackbox. And look, there’s my mutt e-mail client Read more…

Linux, Open Source

window managers

Well, anyway, back in the days of hanging on on undernet’s #linux for far too many hours every day, Brad Hughes (who I used to know as nyztihke, and now goes by nyz) showed me some interesting code he was playing with–hand-writing his own window manager from scratch. At the time, you had to manually edit .Xdefaults and restart his code any time you wanted to change something. =:) Anyway, I was still so enthralled with all the neato options that the seemingly countless number of window managers for X offered, that I was switching window managers about twice a week. At the time, I bounced back and forth between AfterStep, that raster kid’s enlightenment window manager, the Ice window Read more…

Life in General

emu – laters ?

Okay. I’ve just gotta say it. I am VERY impressed with vmware3. =:) For my work, there are certain things for which I simply have to use the below-discussed Micro$oft Operating (?) Systems. And I’ll be danged if I’m actually going to have to work inside the thing. That I simply can’t stand. I can’t explain it. Write it off to another one of those nutty UNIX geek things or paranoia or something. But I can’t stand being forced to work completely inside the confines of anything Microsoft dishes out. Anyway. So along comes the question… how do you do that? Especially when your job says that you have to work with Windoze. Well, you find an emulator that lets Read more…