I just noticed that some of my more recent posts that feature screenshots weren’t allowing you to view the full size image. I have just been through and fixed that so now; for example, if you wish; you could go back to the post I wrote when I installed Windows 2000 on Virtualbox and view [...]
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Sorted, I found another add-on called moztraybiff. Unfortunately if disables the new mail notification, but should change the icon when I get new mail. Let’s just see eh?
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I just had a quick look to find a nicer theme for Thunderbird and maybe an add-on to minimise to tray. I was quite annoyed to find, as I have in the past with certain themes and that, this:
“MinimizeToTray is not available for Linux.”
I’ve seen Firefox/Thunderbird criticised in the past because although it’s an open [...]
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About two days ago I installed CrunchBang Linux and I am pretty much amazed. I haven’t really investigated why yet, but it runs SO fast. By that I mean considerably faster than anything else I’ve tried on this computer.
CrunchBang has conky running by default, which is a nice touch and also means that I can [...]
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So I’ve been using Slackware for about a week now… As I approach the end of week two I have to admit that I’m not all that satisfied with progress on this experiment.
Slackware is definately faster than Ubuntu was. Though the same could be said for Fedora 10. I now know that to make the [...]
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Well shortly after my last post I realised that there may infact be a pre-compiled binary for VirtualBox on the sun site… there is… and it works just fine! That’s that one in the bag…
Last night I updated my whole system to Slackware-current, which I’ve not tried before. It was a very smooth [...]
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I spent some of yesterday tweaking, setting up a nice desktop using Fluxbox, choosing a file manager etc., but my major task was to get virtual machines on the go and this proved to be a lot harder than I thought it would be. It turns out that at the moment there’s a bug that [...]
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I have set myself the challenge of making my laptop work better. I’m off of work for 3 weeks and so that is my time limit… I figured that if it’s not completely usable in 3 weeks time then I’ll just put Fedora 10 back on it and wait for things to improve over time.
I [...]
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