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Zombie |
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V0.Wick3d |
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Swishy Guru
Joined: 06 Jun 2002 Posts: 491 Location: NZ
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Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2002 4:57 am Post subject: |
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Just checkin lolol _________________ Theres no substitute for C.I. |
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V0.Wick3d n00b
Joined: 08 Oct 2002 Posts: 36 Location: Mtl,qc.Canada
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Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2002 7:12 pm Post subject: |
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System news:
Wine 20020904r1
mosfet-liquid-widgets 0.9.5r1
connectiva-crystal icon
The Grey Matrix Theme From Kde-look.org
Keramik SplashScreen
Unreal Tournament 2003
Quake 3 arena with point release 1.32
The All Seeing Eye
BitchX
more to come:
Conveting / FS form EXT3 to ReiserFS
Setup a Local Intranet with Apache |
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lanark Apprentice
Joined: 13 Sep 2002 Posts: 175 Location: Buenos Aires
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Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2002 7:55 pm Post subject: |
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well, guys...
while I don't like KDE (really don't like any desktop environment) BUT zombie seems to be using fluxbox (my favorite WM, btw), almost as root, my vote goes to him _________________ ·-=: lanark :=-· |
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phong Bodhisattva
Joined: 16 Jul 2002 Posts: 778 Location: Michigan - 15 & Ryan
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Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2002 8:49 pm Post subject: |
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Good move on going to Reiser - very speedy fs in my experience. I was able to inadvertantly delete more than 5 years of e-mail (800+ megs) in less than half a second using Reiser on my box. _________________ "An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head."
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tj Apprentice
Joined: 10 Aug 2002 Posts: 199 Location: tokyo, japan
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Posted: Sat Oct 12, 2002 1:03 pm Post subject: |
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this is a cool read
unfortunately, all my friends are computer illiterate and view me condescendingly as the friend with the silicon affliction, you know, the usual tokenism ...until their HORDC running windows 98/me irritates them more than the neighbor's poodle )
they have pcs (I'm being charitable ) but no one is even aware of linux - even at work, I think my fondness for linux means that my every keystroke is monitored
I envy these 2 guys and their online competition, so please keep the updates coming so that I can derive some vicarious pleasure |
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zombie n00b
Joined: 06 Sep 2002 Posts: 59 Location: Montreal
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Posted: Sat Oct 12, 2002 9:18 pm Post subject: |
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We aim to please
In the past 3 days I've installed, configured and tested several small things that mainly have to do with the desktop environment and the overall ease of use. I really want to make sure nothing of what's included feels complicated or starts crashing. I've considered downgrading to KDE 3.0.3 for that reason, because a lot of (very cool) multimedia capabilities are still too unstable for real life use. We also discussed the use of The Gimp vs. photoshop 7 and, although the gimp still is a impressive tool by my own standards, my girlfriend is convinced she could not switch from photoshop to gimp for the work she is actually doing. So I will definitely be using VMWare with winXP. I don't think there's anything else that will need vmware though.
I've tested gnome 2 and the basic configuration sucks so bad I immediately unemerged it. No anti-aliasing by default, and a window manager switcher that couldn't be found anywhere, add that to metacity's default theme... man, I am sooo sticking to KDE.
Samba is fully functionnal with VMWare and the other machines in the workgroup, but I still haven't found how to browse other machines with KDE LAN browsing, got some reading to do I guess. Browsing my own machine works though. Woo. Hoo. Am I a l33t H4X0R or what. (and it took me like 2 days before I figure out I had to add LISa to the default runlevel...)
There are three little things that bug me these days and even wake me up at night (one of which I am NOT telling you), questions you guys might be able to answer. Is it bad to compile components with different flags, ex.: compiling KDE with -march pentium4 -mcpu pentium4 but adding kdeaddons with -mcpu i686 because if I don't do that the emerge doesn't work? And also, are there altenatives to using the crossover plugin to play quicktime files? Thanx in advance if you can help me
I'm going back to emerging stuff now, updating tomorrow _________________ Fear the power of Johnnie Walker |
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masseya Bodhisattva
Joined: 17 Apr 2002 Posts: 2602 Location: Baltimore, MD
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Posted: Sat Oct 12, 2002 10:14 pm Post subject: |
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Here's another vote for Zombie based entirely off his Avatar. _________________ if i never try anything, i never learn anything..
if i never take a risk, i stay where i am.. |
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zombie n00b
Joined: 06 Sep 2002 Posts: 59 Location: Montreal
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Posted: Sun Oct 13, 2002 2:20 pm Post subject: |
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My God, I never knew this little guy would become even just a little bit popular some day.
He's one of the characters I had created for an underground cartoon that never went anywhere, his name's Dwight, and he's pissed. Funny how little things like that start getting attention years after they are dead.
Hey I just thought, I did not post any screenshots... gonna work on that today.
But coffee first... _________________ Fear the power of Johnnie Walker |
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zombie n00b
Joined: 06 Sep 2002 Posts: 59 Location: Montreal
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Posted: Sun Oct 13, 2002 4:53 pm Post subject: SCREENSHOT! |
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You can find a screenshot of what my deskotp looks like these days. Not too sure about the color scheme but the rest seems clean and convivial enough. What do you guys think?
http://members.tripod.com/knivezout/ _________________ Fear the power of Johnnie Walker |
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Lovechild Advocate
Joined: 17 May 2002 Posts: 2858 Location: Århus, Denmark
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Posted: Sun Oct 13, 2002 5:23 pm Post subject: |
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So people are voting on V0.Wick3d for techical merits and on Zombie for.... his avatar ???
I don't get it.. but the avatar is cool |
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zombie n00b
Joined: 06 Sep 2002 Posts: 59 Location: Montreal
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Posted: Sun Oct 13, 2002 5:53 pm Post subject: |
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Don't worry, I don't get it either... that tells us a lot about why people elect a particular politician. heh.
At first people were voting for vo.wick3d because he's got a desktop and I got a laptop, then I got votes for using fluxbox for the root account, then my "cool avatar factor" kicked in.
So people, from now on, please vote for me because I use XFS or something
Seriously, I'm almost done building a list of the apps I'll be using, what'll be included in KDE, etc. That should inject a bit of... technologicalliness?... technilicagilicaniillness, ah whatever, into the discussion. _________________ Fear the power of Johnnie Walker |
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metalhedd l33t
Joined: 30 May 2002 Posts: 692 Location: Ontario Canada
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Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2002 5:41 pm Post subject: |
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I vote for gwar!
Seriously though, when this contest is over the winner should create a crazy ebuild to turn any gentoo system into this "Not almost there anymore" linux. |
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zombie n00b
Joined: 06 Sep 2002 Posts: 59 Location: Montreal
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Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2002 6:17 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah we have to fear and respect Gwar...
I think when this contest is over I'll just force my girlfriend to use redhat 5.0 with fvwm for a full month... _________________ Fear the power of Johnnie Walker |
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rac Bodhisattva
Joined: 30 May 2002 Posts: 6553 Location: Japanifornia
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Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2002 8:02 pm Post subject: |
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zombie wrote: | I think when this contest is over I'll just force my girlfriend to use redhat 5.0 with fvwm for a full month... |
If she stays with you through that, you had probably better marry her. _________________ For every higher wall, there is a taller ladder |
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zombie n00b
Joined: 06 Sep 2002 Posts: 59 Location: Montreal
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Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2002 1:10 am Post subject: |
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Hahahahahahhahahaha
Yup... _________________ Fear the power of Johnnie Walker |
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Curious Bodhisattva
Joined: 13 May 2002 Posts: 395 Location: Sydney, Australia
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Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2002 1:32 am Post subject: |
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the horror...
I wrote my first major university C language assignment on a Redhat 5 box... and I didn't even have twm - everytime I started X, it crashed the box.
The box later went on to become a Plan9 install... and then a melted heap of slag after a hardware failure.
-- Curious _________________ Are you down with the Hawk? |
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V0.Wick3d n00b
Joined: 08 Oct 2002 Posts: 36 Location: Mtl,qc.Canada
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Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2002 5:48 pm Post subject: |
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Recent news.
My root is now using Fluxbox.
new package.
Eterm
xv viewer
kportage
kemerge
kget
cups
alsa-xmms
iam presently working on a flash web site i will post soon all my gentoo screenshot including kde and fluxbox |
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Lovechild Advocate
Joined: 17 May 2002 Posts: 2858 Location: Århus, Denmark
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Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2002 6:22 pm Post subject: |
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V0.Wick3d wrote: | Recent news.
My root is now using Fluxbox.
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Hunting sympaty votes are we ???
Next thing you'll be changing your avatar to something really funky.. |
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V0.Wick3d n00b
Joined: 08 Oct 2002 Posts: 36 Location: Mtl,qc.Canada
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Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2002 6:38 pm Post subject: |
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lol!
iam not going to cheat and earn vote with a funky avatar like Zombie!
i will win this challenge without a nice avatar! arg!
curse you zombie and your gwar little guys! |
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zombie n00b
Joined: 06 Sep 2002 Posts: 59 Location: Montreal
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Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2002 7:03 pm Post subject: |
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As I said earlier, you ought to fear and respect (and also vote for) Gwar.
Because they've got plastic suits with fake muscles and spikes and sharp teeth. Raawwrrr... _________________ Fear the power of Johnnie Walker |
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lanark Apprentice
Joined: 13 Sep 2002 Posts: 175 Location: Buenos Aires
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Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2002 7:49 pm Post subject: |
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V0.Wick3d wrote: | My root is now using Fluxbox. |
That's not fair play...
If I could vote again, I'll vote for zombie one more time _________________ ·-=: lanark :=-· |
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masseya Bodhisattva
Joined: 17 Apr 2002 Posts: 2602 Location: Baltimore, MD
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Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2002 8:09 pm Post subject: |
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V0.Wick3d wrote: | My root is now using Fluxbox. |
This does seem to be a pretty bad copy-cat technique. At least use blackbox or something to try and get some kind of debate going. _________________ if i never try anything, i never learn anything..
if i never take a risk, i stay where i am.. |
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V0.Wick3d n00b
Joined: 08 Oct 2002 Posts: 36 Location: Mtl,qc.Canada
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Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2002 8:24 pm Post subject: |
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iam not using fluxbot because he did
i did because i like fluxbox.
look he use kde same as me!! |
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rac Bodhisattva
Joined: 30 May 2002 Posts: 6553 Location: Japanifornia
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Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2002 9:43 pm Post subject: |
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I think this thread would have a lot more color if we could hear from the GFs. Any chance of persuading them to join the party? _________________ For every higher wall, there is a taller ladder |
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zombie n00b
Joined: 06 Sep 2002 Posts: 59 Location: Montreal
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Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2002 10:49 pm Post subject: |
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You guys want a debate? I quit this darn challenge! I have fallen in love with windows 98!!!!!! Nothing else gives me that unique, sexy feeling when I boot, and reboot and reboot and reboot and reboot.... _________________ Fear the power of Johnnie Walker |
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