If you can’t get at your IDE CD burner because Nautilus keeps loading the ide-cd module try the following trick:
Login as root and enter the following, you might have to repeat the command a few times as Nautilus probes the CDROM on a regular basis.
# /sbin/rmmod ide-cd cdrom ; /sbin/modprobe ide-scsi
Of course, I should just modify my /etc/modules.conf but I CBA!
The FuzzyBlog! : Understanding the Importance of Release Early, Release Often – What Often Happens when Commercial Source Developers “Go Open”
Brain grows in rat thigh after transplant – so strange!
I’m really catching up today. I was offline during the weekend so old stuff gets linked that I want to read!
Cringely takes on P2P.
Bold technology predictions for 2012 – I think that the world will be much the same as before, some people will “get” technology, most others won’t.
Equilibrium – You have to see this film.
Knetfilter looks handy.
I have a huge and growing collection of photos thanks to my interest in photography and my Fujifilm 2800z so earlier today I decided to display them in the background of my desktop..
Changing the background in X used to be simple. Just run wmsetbg with the filename of the image and it worked. Not so in Red Hat 8/Gnome 2.
I first searched on freshmeat and found chbg which is supposed to be.. well, I’m not sure. It’s damn confusing and I could only get it to display images in a window. (I suspect this has something to do with Gnome 2 and/or Nautilaus)
I then stumbled across chbg-gnome2 which is a very simple Perl script that uses the Gnome 2 gconf database to set the background. I copied (or symlinked) a few images into a directory, added a crontab entry for chbg-gnome2 pointing at that directory and now my background changes every 2 minutes! It’s The Unix Way of doing things I suppose.
Pat Kenny my friends, is a useless bastard. I have to admit the Late Late Show hasn’t interested me in a long time, and.. hmm, I was going to defend Pat by mentioning the excellent interview with some open source hacker guy last week but then I remembered all the simple technical blunders Pat made.. hehe