Archive for January, 2008

Confused about power supplies for motherboards? Me too. This will help:
http://www.theinquirer.net/en/inquirer/news/2003/08/30/power-supplies-become-increasingly-expensive
ATX = 20 pin plug, your Pentium III’s ATX connector and PS
ATX12V = 20 pin atx connector + 4-pin plug for “Additional 12V”
SSI = Intel spec, which, among other things, defines the “EPS” “enhanced” ATX specification
EPS12V= Power supply with 24-pin EPS12V connector, plus one 8-pin [...]

That’s better!

And on Feb 9th:

Looks like fairly consistent speeds, not quiet 3mb/s download but pretty close.

This is using Verizon 1.5Mbps/384Kbps DSL service:

kde4 and ubuntu

13Jan08

Follow the instructions at the link below to install KDE 4 for Ubuntu:
http://kubuntu.org/announcements/kde-4.0.php
Screenshots follow!
KDE 4’s Show Desktop Grid, use Ctrl-F8:

Pick running app, use Ctrl-F10

If you want some more screenshots let me know.
Update: To install extra goodies do the following:
sudo aptitude install kde4


Neat, a Tango theme for my N73 Nokia Mobile phone!
http://wiki.sukimashita.com/Tango_Symbian60_Theme
Grab the  Symbian60 3rd Edition (Regular, FP1) one for the N73.

Wow, major problems with Gnome and trying to change themes. Ended up the issue was some weird conflict with the gtk-qt-engine package. A simple:
apt-get remove –purge gtk-qt-engine
solved the problem. Of course it took a fews days of googling to find the answer, which was on Ubuntu’s bug tracker (don’t have the link handy sorry). [...]

Was up in Toronto for a couple of days visiting family. On Friday night a couple of us went to Zemra a bar/cafe around the corner for a drink, and there was a pretty decent band & singer playing. The singer was Errol Fisher, and he was really good and the band were very good [...]


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