Log files… 5.2Gb?!

Recently I noticed that the root partition on  my laptop, which dual-boots WinXP and Debian (Testing/Lenny) was 99% full. I had been installing a lot of stuff and testing KDE 4.1, but never in four years had I come close to filling a 10Gb root partition with just the OS.
This is probably my longest-kept install [...]

A little hasty maybe….

So I rebooted and found that I had the same problems. My solution at the time was to go to bed.
I got up this morning and decided to check which groups my normal user was a member of. As it turns out, when I was adding myself to the group of users who have access [...]

KDE 4.1 – continued…

Well… it’s gone… And I didn’t even use it for a day. I liked the desktop effects; and, as I mentioned in my comment, they worked better on my system than compiz; and I liked the comic strip widget.
Overall I think the whole thing looked and felt quite nice and dispite my disagreeing with the [...]

KDE 4.1

Last night I installed KDE 4.1 on my bare-bones Debian Lenny (Testing) System and much to my disbelief I actually quite like it. Recently I’ve been using Openbox on this computer, because it’s fast and looks quite nice too; I think Openbox is a decent step up from Fluxbox.
I remember being put off of KDE [...]

Iceweasel…. WHY?!

Allow me to point out before writing this that I have not read up on the topic at all; this is purely a rant…
I am getting thoroughly pissed off with the fact that Firefox is called Iceweasel in Debian. I just don’t understand the need for rebranding an open source project. If it were a [...]

Screenshot

This is a recent screenshot from my laptop. It is KDE 3.5.9 running on Debian Sid. I’m always trying to mix and match themes, window decorations and wallpapers to try and achieve a minimal, efficient and slightly retro look without making it ugly. The theme here is QtCurve combined with CDE window decor and KDE’s [...]