Archive for April, 2008

sleep

Posted: 30th April 2008 by Gert in Life

Aarghl – OO crashes Compiz; or is it the other way around..
Fun – Mouse over an audio file in HH starts preview playback of that file
Sleep – NOW

An INSANE soulwax remix!!

I dont always like what the Brothers do, but this one.. Hot Damn!!!!!!

Linux Flash Plugins

Posted: 29th April 2008 by Gert in Linux

I just tested swfdec & gnash to replace the standard flash plugin & I wanted to watch the following vid

SWFDec wors like a charm. I love the fact that they dont auto load the flash thing.. is great. Though in some interfaces it might be annoying.. Asfor the test.. It failed to show the movie [...]

The Ubuntu Hardy Heron Release Party

Posted: 29th April 2008 by Gert in Linux

The Ubuntu-be Hardy Heron Release Party
Only 4 more days!

3 mei 2008 in GC De Markthallen, Herk-de-Stad
Middels inleidingen, presentaties, workshops en hulp bij installatie, krijgt u de mogelijkheid u te verdiepen in het functioneren van Ubuntu – Linux en open source. De party is gericht op zowel de beginner, alsook de ervaren gebruiker en met [...]

Short one..

Posted: 29th April 2008 by Gert in Life

First post from my Fresh Ubuntu HH x64 install cool, isnt it!!
& also .. I read this Great post (The Great Ubuntu-Girlfriend Experiment) earlier & doubted the way installing the flash pluging via youtube works. Now, since I have this fresh install – this was The best time to try So [...]

Viva the Hardy

I really need something like that

Troughput

Posted: 25th April 2008 by Gert in Linux

Whow!
I just copied my X laptop data (Lots of GBs) to my home server to prepare my reformatting to Ubuntu HH.
I did a vanilla install of the beta to test. Vanilla means one partition with all data on. I cant have that, I need to be able to reinstall the system without having to move [...]

Wii Fit

Posted: 24th April 2008 by Gert in Games

Dont get me wrong – I want this, from the first moment I heard about it. & I really hope they bring Maya (Yourself Fitness!) to the Wii Fit! That d be AWSOME (Even without the fit it would be amazing – but a missed chance)

But when I saw THIS screenshot – I [...]

Shower!

Posted: 24th April 2008 by Gert in Life

Rouso was so cute Viona fell asleep with him watching over her; next to her.. I wanted to take a pic, but I didnt have my cell by hand..
I realised MS wont bring Office to Linux for the simple reason that there s a lot of people who dont go Linux because of [...]

Tired

Posted: 24th April 2008 by Gert in Life

I’m quite tired.
I ve been doing stuff all evening – barely had time for anything. 30 minutes of desperate housewives (instead of 45!!) was about it, for whats concerned RnR :/
And I wanted to catch up some X work.. That fracking OO crashing on me with bigger files Really set me back – A LOT!
& [...]

Wallpapers

Posted: 23rd April 2008 by Gert in Life

Blizzard has AMAZING wallpapers   Their art galleries are Wondefull!
Now all I need is a fun Linux wallpaper
& actually, I d love a nice X wallpaper! I should find out  where I can get a High Res, preferably vectorized, version of our logo!

Blog Skin Update

Posted: 22nd April 2008 by Gert in Project

Some of you might notice my blog update.. That residue banner (left of the menu) is FINALLY gone
And all of that thanks to Gregory My old colleague from 2M apparently got tired of seeing that stupid and useless banner so he cleaned the images for me & mailed them! Isnt that [...]