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November

Better Firefox Themes??

Written by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper. 8 comments Posted in: Life in General

Okay, seriously, I think we could just delete 90% of the firefox themes on addons.mozilla.org. Truly, I am almost physically ill after spending a few minutes looking through them.   And the ones I’ve found on deviantart are out of date and unusable.  Surely, there must be a top-secret repository of really good Firefox 2 themes [...]

18
November

MWM looking for Bling/Compiz/Emerald/KDE3 love

Written by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper. 18 comments Posted in: Life in General

Dear Lazyweb,
I would LOVE to have bling on my desktop. I use KDE3, and have been good all year. I think I should be allowed to have bling on my desktop just like all of my GNOME friends.
To this end, I’ve tried running compiz with emerald in my KDE desktop. I can [...]

07
November

KDE NetworkManager workaround

Written by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper. 7 comments Posted in: KDE

In case anyone else hits this…. In one of the more recent releases of our beloved KDE, code was added to more smoothly integrate with networking. Namely, the attempt is now made to be aware of NetworkManager-initiated network connections, as well as know when NetworkManager doesn’t think it’s connected so as to not [...]

02
November

Thinkpad T61 and Iogear 4-port USB KVM Switch

Written by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper. 4 comments Posted in: Life in General

This, the next exciting story in my Adventures With the Thinkpad T61 At Work (TM)  =;)…. So I got a really sweet-looking IOGEAR 4-port USB KVM Switch at work. But when I plugged it into the T61, although the nVidia driver was able to find the external display (auto-detect button thingey), it only [...]

01
November

$200 Ubuntu Linux PC Now Available at Wal-Mart

Written by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper. 2 comments Posted in: Life in General

This is pretty darned cool. I bought a $300 desktop from Walmart a few years ago and it’s still running OpenSUSE and serving as a pretty capable desktop machine for the family. Definitely worthwhile to put our FOSS dollars where our mouths are too, imho. Let’s support the companies who are actively [...]

01
November

KPilot Mail Juxtaposition

Written by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper. 2 comments Posted in: Life in General

Thought this was pretty humorous. Went looking for unread KDE mail today and found these 2 e-mails back to back. Does it stink? Is it great? I’m going with the “is great” e-mail, personally… =;)