Random Nerd Rants

Category: Linux

  • Finally!

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    fmneto
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    I finally convinced compiz that is would be a good idea if it worked here. Now it’s doing great. There are a few more tweaks I want to make, like changing gdm’s theme, adding a graphical interface to grub and a graphical progress bar for the boot, but the basics are covered.

  • A lot done.

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    fmneto
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    Work. Work-work-work. A bit more of work. That’s what it took for me to get a decent desktop running. After a lot of things I had to go through, including a fresh install, a huge amount of bizarre errors, a reinstall, an upgrade to lenny, a driver compilation and lots and lots and lots of…

  • On the vicissitudes of using a PC

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    fmneto
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    Today I’ve reinstalled Windows on my PC. It’s one of those things you have to do now and then, since it seems to periodically and inexorably degrade to a point where anything you do triggers some error. The good thing is, at least this forces me to do backups, software updates and not-useful-anymore software removal.…