stdout.

So after distro hopping a few times I am back using Karmic and am no longer against it.

GRUB2 finally makes the text on Grub look good, and the fstab errors I was getting were just xsplash being in verbose mode. I fixed all my openbox problems by switching to KDM.

All I need to do now is reduce the GRUB2 boot time now :)

After seeing all the praise that Karmic has gathered, I thought I should share my woes upon finally upgrading today.

First up, Karmic takes longer to boot up than Jaunty, is uglier while booting, and gives me a bunch of nasty /etc/fstab errors when I boot.

Once I got past this annoyance, I discovered that my lovely, beautiful GDM theme had been destroyed with the new incompatible version of GDM and replaced with an ugly theme that requires my to click on my name before typing in my password.

Now, I got even more problems after this because I don’t use Gnome, I switched to Openbox a while back and minced up my Gnome settings to make them work properly with it. So I log in and my panel at the bottom is sitting 30 pixels up from the bottom of the screen and is now floating. Also it seems to have ignored the fact that I have set up 4 workspaces and says I only have one which isn’t even the same name as my first defined desktop.

Conky has now also decided to start flickering on every update and all my file associations have disappeared and now everything is listed as “unknown”.

Rant over [and it's probably not coherent, knowing me]. I’m so ticked off with this update that I’m currently downloading Chakra Linux [arch-based distro] to replace it.

Screenshot for October 09

I’ve gone down the “dark/light/green” way again, with a new desktop background and a customised bmpanel, which I am rather proud of :)

So, I discovered Dragonforce a couple of months ago because my friend Emma and I were playing Guitar Hero 3, and I noticed the name and decided to investigate. I’m glad I did, because they really are epic. True, a lot of their stuff sounds the same, but what they play is pretty amazing. Lightning-fast guitar solos FTW.

Anyway, yesterday I got myself a ticket to go and see then at the Barrowlands here in Glasgow, this December. So far I’ve yet to convince a friend to come along (I have a couple of interested parties, though),but I am brining along a very sharp knife with which to cut off Herman Li’s fingers if I manage to get close enough. I want to replace my fingers with his so I can use his guitar skillz to power my way to rock history!

(I’m just kidding, of course :P)

Here is an (almost) complete install sequence for BeOS PE Max v4b1 in picture form:

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So, as promised earlier I said I’d post the chronicling of my second attempt to run BeOS on my laptop.

First up was to locate both BeOS PE Max and some installation documentation. As I write this the BeOS Max website is actually down so it was off to archive.org to go and find a cached copy. Here is a link to the latest copy available of the wiki pages.

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So, with all the recent hype about the alpha release of Haiku, the open source BeOS clone. I thought it would be a good idea to test it out. I had heard of BeOS/Haiku before and how good it was and thought it would be the perfect candidate to run on an old laptop we have in the house which doesn’t run Linux at all well.

So  I downloaded the Haiku alpha .image and converted it to a .vdi for use in Virtualbox, got networking set up correctly and gave it a go! I was so impressed with it that I decided I would go ahead and install it on this old laptop.

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Here it is in all its glory!

http://grimnir512.deviantart.com/art/Leaves-Openbox-136649870

I should be uploading quite a few, I’m quite into customising my theme at the moment :P

So, everyone has a list of things that they want, myself included, so I thought I’d post mine up here as a sort of checklist. It’s mostly techy, but there are a few odd things in there :P

1. Silver Tip Badger Hair shaving brush. I used my Dad’s shaving brush today, and now I want one of my own :P Best quality, ofc.
2. Always Innovating Touchbook. This thing looks awesome, and I don’t think I have enough ARM processors in my life!
3. Nokia N900. It’ll either be this or the Touchbook, I think, because I’ll never afford both. But this thing sure looks awesome :D
4. Xbox 360. Yes, yes, Microsoft is the devil and all. But I want one, everyone I know has one so if I want online play I’ll have to have one :P I’ll see what everyone has when I’m at University before I make up my mind, though.
5. A tin of Altoids. Apparently they make these things in the UK! Can’t find them anywhere, though. Have to ship them in from the States.
6. Cut-throat razor. Just for the hell of it!
7. A shirt from shirt.woot. I think I’ve chosen one from the reckoning page, but it’s always worth checking every day!

I think that’s about it! I’ll be checking these off and adding more on as get/want them :)

I’ve been playing round with it a bit since my screenshots yesterday, so I thought I’d share.

Conky

I’ll put my .conkyrcs up if anyone should want them :)