Category Archives: General

/. has affected my job productivity… – first post from a “real” geek.

I got really used to single clicking after using KDE. Thankfully Nautilaus can enable that behaviour too!

Google Search: blondes disappearing, this mustn’t have made much of an impact on the blogging community if my weblog is first in the list. (currently!)

SourceForge.net: phplib-users – look about 2/3 of the way down, someone found something useful on this page!

Google Search: site:.freshrpms.net gimp perl – If you’re using GIMP installed from an RPM you could be missing out on some great plugins and functionality. Make sure the gimp-perl RPM is installed. If you have apt, just do apt-get install gimp-perl

What Red Hat did to KDE – a comprehensive list of changes.

How to upgrade from NULL to RH8 using apt. A bit scary but certainly do-able. I’d have updated glibc using rpm as a later comment pointed out instead of trying to remove it and then updating it. I did it on a dev server long ago and the server wasn’t rebooted for ages, so it can be done!

QDB: Quote Database Home

*iMike* the bible should be rewritten to more common language
*DigDug* yeah, like c++ or perl
*D1* in comic book form

woo! I can do apt-get install mplayer and it installs the player, codecs, and dvd libraries from freshrpms!

RedHat 8 review – I’ve just installed it. It looks nice. It’s not the same desktop I had running before. (I used Window Maker, now.. gnome or kde probably).
RH8 feels snappier and more responsive. When I untarred my home directory it seemed to work faster than I remember doing so before.
Galeon loaded 20 tabs faster than before. I think that’s down to the new kernel.
Of course, I had to install the mp3 rpms as xmms wouldn’t play mp3s by default.
Menu items are strange as I’m used to choosing applications and I know what most of them do, now it print “Web browser” instead of “Mozilla”. Good for the new users though.

Quick 5 minute assesment, ‘s not bad!

Cork City Tour – see the city where I live!