Aug
14
After I experienced a big rush of disappointment with the Mac and OS X Lion (you might want to check the previous posts), I really thought I have to look for an alternative. In the very least until such a time when Apple gets their clusterfuck back in working order. I had a look around …
Aug
21
This is not a Mac.
Feb
05
Alright so I bought myself a new toy, a little handy netbook. It is a bit nicer to carry a 10-inch machine, instead of a 17 inch laptop around. In the shop they wanted to sell me all kinds of crap, for example Norton 360 anti-virus. When I said I didn’t need it, he asked …
Jan
07
I always liked Adium on OS X a lot, it’s the Mac fork of the famous Pidgin, a multi-protocol messaging client. I really LOVE Pidgin – but one thing was always missing – the fancy look. But finally, it can be helped! Here’s what to do. These steps are for Ubuntu 9.10 only. 1. Open …
Dec
30
So I updated to Ubuntu 9.10 and decided to do some desktop pimping again, because I am not necessarily the greatest fan of the standard GNOME interface. So all you really need is a good looking Leopard GTK theme (there are some), good Metacity theme (again, there are some), Cairo Dock, and Global Menu Bar. …
Jul
27
Songbird is pretty nice alright. It’s built on Mozilla’s code to create the Firefox of music. However, it is not native, not to Linux anyways, which causes problems. So I was looking for another music player that would have the same or similar functionality… and I found one. The name is Exaile (probably pronounced “exhale”, …
Jul
24
What? o_O Press release of Microsoft of July 20. REDMOND, Wash., July 20, 2009 — Today, in a break from the ordinary, Microsoft released 20,000 lines of device driver code to the Linux community. The code, which includes three Linux device drivers, has been submitted to the Linux kernel community for inclusion in the Linux …
Mar
24
Over the last few weeks things have happened that made me think. My life has changed a bit and I wanna keep riding the wave of change. Well looks like as if this wave with me riding it is headed toward the Mac world. You see the thing is I like Macs. Nice machines eh? …
Feb
19
Right, so I have been playing around with Kubuntu, my new main desktop system, for like 2 days. There has been a bit of trickery and tweakery going on, like for example you have to tell ALSA that you are on a MacBook Pro Revision 3 in order to make the headphone jack work. Well …
Feb
18
This is the end, my only friend: me, the Mac die-hard, no longer uses Mac OS X. LOLWUT? Yeah, it’s true. After having closely followed the development on the open road for a while, I have seen that there are in fact superior applications out there. For free. I always had an eye on Ubuntu, …
