Category: Linux

Disable Compiz

November 11, 2008 - Computers , Geek , KDE , Linux - by admin - 4 Comments

Since KDE have ruined Kubuntu with KDE4, it’s time to use Gnome. However Compiz and glitzy pointless effects irritate me no end. A few quick commands will disable them for the current user… gconftool-2 –set /desktop/gnome/applications/window_manager/current /usr/bin/metacity –type=string gconftool-2 –set /desktop/gnome/applications/window_manager/default /usr/bin/metacity –type=string The next time you log in, it […]

Hard Choice

November 11, 2008 - KDE , Linux , Things that annoy Kyle - by admin - 3 Comments

A few weeks ago I thought I would take the plunge, and installed KDE 4.1 on my Kubuntu 8.4 laptop. With the recent announcement of Intrepid being launched, I upgraded to Kubuntu 8.10 with KDE4 as the default environment. I figured that I should get an early look at the […]

It’s HAMMER Time

October 11, 2008 - Cool things , Linux - by admin - No Comments

A year ago Matthew Dillon went into some detail about the new HAMMER filesystem. It’s now reaching stability, and will hopefully be sent forth in the upcoming v2.0 release of DragonflyBSD. All the interesting bits can be discovered here and here. A few features to note, though, are… 1 Exabyte […]

EVE Online Badness

October 11, 2008 - Computers , Linux - by admin - No Comments

Recently EVE Online had been playing up. It was still in demo mode, but I quite fancied having a shot at it. The app was having none of it though… kyleg@CHLP0023:~$ eve Single-user install… This is the update checker… Running /home/kyleg/.cedega/.updater/cedega_updater.py Running… /home/kyleg/.cedega/.ui/runGUI kyleg@CHLP0023:~$ err:client:receive_fd FD went missing; attempting recovery […]

Dear Beagle

August 27, 2008 - Linux , Things that annoy Kyle - by admin - 4 Comments

bagpuss@mine:~/.beagle $ du -sh 8.1G . bagpuss@mine:~/.beagle $ du -sh Log/ 8.0G Log/ bagpuss@mine:~/.beagle $ cd; rm -rf ~/.beagle/ bagpuss@mine:~ $ What have you got to say for yourself? Hmmm? This is on Ubuntu Hardy, which is supposed to be ‘stable’ software. Filling up ~ with your logs doesn’t instill […]