Recently I found a solution to a problem which has been nagging me for a while (ever since I switched to IMAP email actually). The problem? Synchronizing calendars and contact between my desktop and laptop PCs.
The solution I found is ScheduleWorld, a free synchronization service which allows you to share calendars, contacts, tasks and [...]
So, after being impressed by beryl on my desktop today I tried to get it running on my laptop. It’s a ThinkPad T42 with a Radeon Mobility 7000 graphics card. It seems that for this hardware AIGLX is best method. After a lot of messing about to get DRI working properly (never bothered with it [...]
Also tagged GentooPhi is now running Beyrl on TwinView at 2560×1024 Oh so very sweet!
I’m using the Beyrl packages from portage and the nVidia desktop effects method (no XGL or AIGLX). Got it running pretty easily following the guides on the wiki. I had to stop using Xinerama as Beryl doesn’t support it, but getting [...]
This evening I’ve been messing around with Drupal, an open source content management system (CMS). I installed the package with portage (a one line emerge), created a database, then the Drupal installer did the rest of the work. Within 2 minutes I had a working site. I’m impressed. I tried out Joomla late last year [...]
Also tagged Online & WWW, SysadminI needed to use OO.org Writer for the first time today since I re-installed my laptop. I was disappointed to note that spell checking wasn’t working. This always seems to happen on new OO.org installs, fortunately there is a simple fix (as found on the forums).
To save myself to time searching for it next [...]
Gnome 2.16 has been around for a while - but it only went stable on Gentoo yesterday - until then I have been just, well, waiting. Of course I could have unmasked it ages ago, but I just don’t have the time to muck about with it at the moment.
Anyway - I’ve updated my laptop, [...]
I have begun to use a (private) wiki as a place to put information that I gather as I progress with my research project. It’s a nice way of quickly adding information in a stuctured manner and having a history is nice for tracking how the project is progressing and I think it will come [...]
Also tagged General, Real LifeFor the past month or so I have been thinking about satistica’s development in the long term. One of the core aspects that I am considering is the set of classes which represent the fairly complex data types that the system manipulates. I found myself sketching out class relationship diagrams on paper and struggling to [...]
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