Monthly Archives: September 2008

Gnome 2.24 (again)

I think I’ve made my desktop look sufficiently like a default “install”. I really like the look of this, and could very much get used to it.

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KDE 4.1

I’m running RC2 of the latest Mandriva from a live-cd to test a couple of things out, and thought I’d have a look at how KDE is doing. It’s pretty, but doesn’t seem anywhere near as instinctive as Gnome. But … Continue reading

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Gnome 2.24

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Dropbox for Mandriva

I’ve built an RPM that installs fine on my installation of Mandriva 2009 (RC1). Downloadable from here, but I’m only prepared to say that this works for me right now, as I’ve not tested it elsewhere. Update: this version of … Continue reading

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My computers

Seeing as everyone in the world is doing it. brick (Toshiba laptop that is my main Linux machine – Ubuntu 8.04.1) kallisti (G5 iMac that runs all my music-related things – OS X 10.5.5) eeepc (new toy that goes everywhere … Continue reading

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Review : Atlantis, Oh Our Saviour by The Rest

I downloaded this album because I liked the front cover. It reminded me of “Funeral” by The Arcade Fire, and I thought that as The Rest were also Canadian they might be operating in the same sort of area. Reviews … Continue reading

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One album a month for how long?

British singer/songwriter Sean Wright has been releasing one full album a month for the past year and a half. A couple of weeks ago I started to dip into these, and have so far downloaded about 30 songs, all of … Continue reading

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Briefly

Kouki deleted all their albums from Jamendo, which is slightly annoying as I’d only got about half way through downloading them. I must have listened to about 24 hours worth of new music this week, and as I’m off work … Continue reading

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Review : 13 Segundos de Caida Libre by Icarus Crash

Icarus Crash are a melodic hard rock group from Malaga in Spain. They sing in Spanish, with a few English phrases thrown in on occasion (I think). As I’m not really a fan of the genre, I didn’t expect to … Continue reading

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Using Ubiquity with google maps

Again, a really simple command to pull up a google map. map B457HJ There is a lot more that can be done with maps, but that will have to wait for another day.

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