While Slackware 12.0’s move to a modular X is very nice and helpful, it’d be more helpful if the packages had actual descriptions rather than “<packagename> is part of X11.”

qartis.com - Read about all the projects someday.

Why, you may ask? Well, let me use Deepest Sender’s never-before-used list feature and tell you.

• A lot of them look interesting, like stuff I’d do if I had the resources/time/money/willpower.
• He uses Slackware.
• He’s the only person I’ve seen with more unfinished projects than me.

And after browsing a bit more, I found two other reasons:

• He likes Digg
• He likes PHP.

K, so new driver fixes somethings, but leaves others broken.

If I use Option      “AccelMethod” “EXA” in my xorg.conf, everything works but performance sucks. Without it, title bars still work, but small windows still have issues. Rar.

How ironic is it that, after making a nice long post complaining about compiz’s issues, I run swaret, and lo and behold, new version of xf86-video-intel. (and xf86-video-i810, but last I checked xorg’s i810 driver is symlinked to the intel one.) Upgraded, and voila, no more compiz issues.

Gets me +100 FPS in glxgears, too.

Compiz is very nice. Lots of fun eye candy. However, there are a few issues that make it unbearable to use for me.

First off, small windows (I don’t have exact sizes, but things like KDE’s run dialog and kwrite’s search dialog) don’t update. I can click, type, and they perform as they should, but the windows don’t update to reflect what I’ve typed.

Also, larger windows update, but the title bar doesn’t. This means that it doesn’t change color to show gain/loss of focus, as well as that if I tabs in Firefox, the title bar doesn’t update to reflect the title of the new window.

“Medium” sized windows work fine

And yes it is size-dependent. Resizing small windows larger causes them to update, making them small again restarts the issue. Likewise, I can resize large windows smaller and the title bar will start updating.

I was really starting to enjoy the eye candy like wobbly and cube, too.

Maybe I’ll wait for the next version of compiz to hit Slackware.

Seriously. I stopped liking “TJ2010911″ about a year ago. I made it up in 5th grade and it’s got a shitload of numbers. I’ve been trying to put it to rest.

So, I closed my GMail account.

And waited a few days.

I then tried to register again, only to see the following image:

“Why can’t I change my address?” is a link to a page that says, “It isn’t possible to change your username once you’ve created an account”, and “For more drastic username changes, you’ll need to sign up for a new account.” However, I am signing up for a new account. After all, I closed my old one.

Just another reason for me to not use GMail I guess. It appears to be a nice service, but POP sucks, GMail doesn’t support IMAP, and apparently it doesn’t want me to be able to change my address.

that the linux kernel doesn’t instantly flag itself as dirty, with these results.

root@biospark:/usr/src/linux# for word in fuck shit crap whore bitch bastard; do echo $word:;find -type f|xargs cat|grep -i $word|wc -l;done
fuck:
50
shit:
137
crap:
143
whore:
2
bitch:
27
bastard:
15

For the uninformed, that’s the swear count in the Linux kernel (The kernel being the core of the Operating System) source code as of version 2.6.21.5

Yeah. Best way to explain why some sites load slow (Flickr, Google) and some won’t load at all (Hotmail, FreeDNS) on this connection. Especially since the slow sites load faster when I use Tor, which is in itself very slow.

I think this place has SBC, not sure though.

The X-Box 360 apparently sucks so much they’re extending the warranty by 3 years.

I haven’t really used Slackware much because the random little things annoyed me. However, Slackware 12.0 came out and I decided to test upgrade there rather than risk blowing up a production server, I tested it on my laptop. I’m glad I did. 12.0 is so much better than 11.0. Hardware support with HAL and dbus is great. I’ve never used my USB DVD burner with Linux before, but I just plugged it in and popped in a DVD and it worked. The new K3B package burned a DVD just fine. Not to mention that I finally not WPA working for encryption, so I can get on my wireless net. Plus I get better battery life. My laptop made it 2 hours without dying (then I plugged it in, I never got to see how low it would go.) whereas windows can only go about one and a half hours.
Another nice new feature in Slack 12 (Thanks to the 2.6 kernel) is CPU throttling. What it does is lets you control your CPU speed, with different modes. There’s a mode that lets you manually do it, one that sets it to a very low setting to save power, and one that’ll throttle it based on how much you use. This throttling is the most useful, especially for a laptop user like myself. I can save battery by having it auto-lower the clock speed when I’m not really using the CPU.
I may use Linux for servers all the time, but I obviously need to use it for a desktop (laptop, actually) more.