Archive for June, 2006

Xeons, Rails and some DVDs

So new Xeons are almost out. Can not wait until more price drops, as I need a server. I have obtained Agile Web Development with Rails β version as a PDF and now spending most of my time swallowing it… almost last weekend I have spent on CSI: Miami and a History of violence, both [...]

NSA Cartoon

As most of you know NSA is spying on everybody, here is a nice cartoon with a song about it.

Open Office usage

Ania is writing a dissertation. She knows nothing about text editing, they never taught it in her university. When I had questionable pleasure of being asked how to do something in OpenOffice every five minutes, I have asked her if she can send the file over to me, and I will create some styles for [...]

xf86-video-ati driver

I have re-enabled dri in my X11 configuration. Scrolling through pages is smooth again! Great stuff! It was the most annoying thing for me. An now I can play Video with XVideo what saves a lot of CPU time.

I just do not like when perfectly working system is “upgraded” to not working. Today I have upgraded my X.org X11 to 7.1 and … my Fglrx drivers stopped working. Does not matter which version, it just does not work due to binary incompatibility between modules and X11. crap! I had to merge f86-video-ati which [...]

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Flock 0.7 disappoints

You would expect to not loose, but gain more features right ? Not with flock, 0.7.0.11.1 available for Linux is a step back. What was wrong with Semi-Live Bookmarks, that is a crucial feature when I am choosing a web browser … and you have removed it! what for… That move just cancelled all my [...]