New IceWM theme

I’ve created my own theme for IceWM. Well actually I just edited someone elses… but I think it looks pretty nice. Here’s a screenshot:

You can download this theme for yourself by clicking on this link.
Enjoy.
 

KDE for a week: part 2

If you’re looking for feedback on my experiences with KDE then you can find it in previous posts and comments below. It may (or may not) be obvious that my KDE saga ended after about 24 hours. I got really pissed off with things (bluetooth mainly) just not working and on top of that I [...]

The curious affair of the missing core: Part 2

Last night was the first time I met with B1ackcr0w in Weston to dicuss the starting of the Weston/Burnham-on-Sea/North Somerset Linux User’s Group. We’ve written a [somewhat brief] action plan to get the LUG going, I really hope it’s a success. Even sitting in a pub with a stranger talking Linux was really fun. [...]

Sleep sleep sleep: part 4 (finale)

I just noticed that I haven’t mentioned that this is not a problem with Archlinux… I don’t know if they’ve just put in a quick work-around to unload the module before sleep/hibernate, or if it’s just that the problem has been solved. Either way: it just works now.

The curious affair of the missing core…

Fairly recently I noticed a change in the information that my computer gives about its cpu, by which I mean that rather than displaying my dual core processor as having two cores it now only appears to detect one. In terms of time scale I really cannot be sure, but I’m pretty convinced that it’s [...]

KDE for a week

I figured I needed something to inspire me to get writing on here again so I’ve set myself a challenge. I have to admit there’s nothing particularly challenging about it, but it’s just an excuse anyway! I’ve been using GNOME exclusively for at least 6 months now and my current Archlinux set up has only [...]

Break

To anyone who regularly reads my blog.
You may or may not have noticed that I have not posted in a while.
I will resume writing in future, when I have more time/motivation.
For now you can keep up with me on identi.ca or twitter. I am called “arfab” on both.

Sleep sleep sleep: part 3

A quick update… this is also noted as Bug 491235 on Red Hat Bugzilla, which points out that it’s also known as bug 11887 on the Kernel.org
Apparently there is work in process, which is positive

Sleep sleep sleep: part 2

Well as it happens I’ve now discovered exactly what it was that has been causing my suspend problems since I bought my laptop. It was the wireless card. All this time I was thinking that it was a power management problem and that meant my system wouldn’t suspend. Well, since believing that it was having [...]

Screenshot

Time for another screenshot… I haven’t done one of these for a while and the
other day I was browsing through my collection and found this:

Previous to taking this screenshot I had wasted about 2 days compiling KDE 3.3 from source,
which at the time was about 2 years out of date, because I though that it [...]