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Knetfilter looks handy. …
Knetfilter looks handy.
I have a huge and growing coll …
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 use …
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
Slashdot | PostgreSQL 7.3 Rele …
Slashdot | PostgreSQL 7.3 Released – I want to try it, I really do. *sigh* Linked is the /. discussion with further links.
I had an excellent weekend. I' …
I had an excellent weekend. I’m a year older now, 27. gah! Getting older!
Martina bought me the beautiful national Geographic Book of Photographs which has some amazing images! She also bought me “Scrap the collection”, a 4 CD recording of Scrap Saturday that is brilliant! I must post a couple of mp3 clips from them later. Of course, they are out of date, a lot of younger people probably won’t even remember some of the characters, but others (like Eamon Dunphy critising the weather) are still relevant. hehe.
Of course, the best bit about yesterday was the fact Martina took the day off from work, so we had the day together. We went for dinner in the Indian Palace on Princes Street. I was presented with a surprise birthday cake afterwards! Martina arranged the cake with the restaurant earlier on Saturday. I love her, she made the day!
Simon Perry looks at the Orang …
Simon Perry looks at the Orange SPV, and as mentioned below by the Register, is not impressed.
Scott looks at the US war plan …
Scott looks at the US war plans, “First, we take Baghdad”
Need To Know reports on the la …
Need To Know reports on the latest ramblings of Eric Raymond. I’m not going to repeat what NTK wrote, just visit Eric’s site for a load of..
Iain M. Banks: A Few Notes on …
Iain M. Banks: A Few Notes on the Culture – ooh, excellent, I’ve read every Culture related book I can find and these notes are well worth reading for fans!