Monthly Archives: December 2004

Kompose (OS X expose for Linux)

Kompose is another expose clone. I’m installing Suse 9.2 right now to check it out. More to follow…

December 31, 2004 – 9:33 pm | By Frank | Posted in General | Comments (0)

Entbloess (OS X expose for WinXP)

Download Entbloess. This software is fantastic. It mimics OS X’s expose feature. I’ve had continuous crashes running it on my Toshiba Tablet Pentium III laptop, but it runs well on my new Dell X300 (Pentium M). It’s not flawless, but it’s much better than what else is out there. 2005.01.06 UPDATE – Entbloess runs great …

December 30, 2004 – 7:40 pm | By Frank | Posted in General | Comments (0)

RDesktop on OSX

1. Download the XFree86 binaries (google Darwin-ppc-7.x and get everything in that directory…use a graphical FTP program). From the shell as root – “sh Xinstall.sh” (answer “y” to everything) 2. Download rdesktop from rdesktop.org From the shell as root – “./configure;make;make install” You’ll now have “XDarwin” listed in your application. Launch it, then in the …

December 14, 2004 – 11:41 pm | By Frank | Posted in General | Comments (0)

Stone clubs

“I don’t know what kind of weapons will be used in the third world war, assuming there will be a third world war. But I can tell you what the fourth world war will be fought with — stone clubs.” – Albert Einstein (1875-1955)

December 12, 2004 – 7:38 am | By Frank | Posted in General | Comments (0)

pptp vpn fedora core 3

Followthe the first five steps in the instructions at “http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/howto-fedora-core-3.phtml”, except rather than issueing the “rpm –install” commands from the shell, just double click the files from your desktop file manager. That way all the dependencies will be found for you automagically. Next, from the shell rpm -Uhv http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/3/i386/os//Fedora/RPMS/libxml-1.8.17-11.i386.rpm Next, download and install gnome-libs-1.4.1.2.90-14-sh4.rpm Next, …

December 10, 2004 – 7:10 pm | By Frank | Posted in General | Comments (0)

Sushi

Good advice for sushi eaters – 1. Eat at only one restaurant. Visit several before you settle, but when you find a good place don’t stray. 2. Never pass food with your chopsticks. This maneuver is reserved for handling cremated bones. 3. Never question the freshness or presentation of the fish. If it wasn’t fresh, …

December 8, 2004 – 8:13 pm | By Frank | Posted in General | Comments (0)

Firefox

Firefox is a pain in my ass. My .NET apps look like total shit in it (Microsoft’s fault?) It would be cool if it could integrate as your shell. One of the few things I like about it is this bookmark synchronization extension that keeps my bookmarks at work sync’d up with my MAC at …

December 3, 2004 – 4:30 pm | By Frank | Posted in General | Comments (0)