Well, I figured at the end of the year, I would kick in Andrew’s drawers for the last time… =)
However, I decided to make it especially special just for him. =)
Haha… I’m gonna be dead. =)
-Oliver
Basement
Well, I’m sitting in the Taylor basement right now… skipping Automata Theory again (hope she doesn’t hand out a quiz today =). I would have been out of here 30+ minutes ago, but some girl just sent 45+ jobs to the printer… so I have to wait for her to get done before mine reaches the end of the queue. Ugh. Oh, and the other printer is dead… I tried printing to that one until I noticed that the job at the front of the queue had been sitting there for three hours. Ugh Ugh Ugh.
Hmm… well that’s all for now. Maybe I will sneak into the end of Automata and see if she handed out a quiz….
-Oliver
More Debian
gtk2 apps have really small fonts:
- Create .gtkrc-2.0 file with:
style “user-font” { font_name=”Sans 12” }
widget_class “*” style “user-font”
-Oliver
Debian
Ahhh… my leap into the world of Debian. Turned out much better than I expected! I installed using my Knoppix CD, which made the whole process much easier! The HD install script didn’t allow me to specify different partitions for different mount points, so I did that after the install was finished. I made a seperate partition for /home so that in future installs, I wouldn’t have to kill it.
I’m just going to throw a few notes here now:
Antialias in Phoenix (installed from here):
- userChrome.css and userContent.css - make sure it uses Luxi Sans or another antialiased font
Konsole AA fonts:
- Just grabbed a ton of fonts from baghat and threw them in /usr/share/fonts. This messed up the default sans font though and made it look really ugly.
- To fix that… see this Gentoo thread. Basically, turn off hinting for sans fonts.
Let’s see… oh yeah, dhclient:
- Wait time was too long originally for dhcp. So: “apt-get install dhcp-client” installs dhclient, which worked quite well. Edit /etc/dhclient.conf and edit timeout value.
Alright, I think that’s all I want to say for now. =)
-Oliver
Funny Stuff
Time Traveller
-Oliver
Quiet PCMCIA Card
Edit: /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia. Add:
CARDMGR_OPTS=-q
That is all for now.
-Oliver
Linux 2
Mouse part of XF86Config:
Section “InputDevice”
Driver “synaptics”
Identifier “Mouse0”
Option “Device” “/dev/psaux”
Option “Edges” “1900 5400 1800 3900”
Option “Finger” “25 30”
Option “MaxTapTime” “20”
Option “MaxTapMove” “220”
Option “VertScrollDelta” “250”
Option “EdgeMotionSpeed” “10”
Option “MinSpeed” “0.03”
Option “MaxSpeed” “0.11”
Option “AccelFactor” “0.0010”
Option “Emulate3Buttons” “yes”
EndSection
Errr… I forgot what else… more later.
-Oliver
Linux
Here is my large linux update… mainly for myself if I ever want to know what I did. Of course, if anyone gets anything useful out of it for themselves, then that’d be cool too. =) All this is mainly for RH8.0ish.
Nice scripts (colorful ls, etc.): /usr/profile.d
Touchpad Driver (with virtual scrolling! =): http://tuxmobil.org/touchpad_driver.html
Oops, gotta go to Freebirds… update will finish later.
-Oliver
Knoppix
So I stumbled upon Knoppix again (I think Van tried them out a little a while back). And while I was chatting with Mark, he discovered this neat little tib-bit of info from Knoppix.net:
Knoppix 3.2 has now KDE 3.1 and “persistant home” - a way to save the configuration also on hd and USB-Memory-Sticks.
So, I had this idea… you get one of these, and one of these, and you’ve got a really really awesome mobile custom OS in your pocket(s). Oh man, I’m not sure how, when or if I’ll actually use it but the prospect of actually doing it is so cool I’m so very tempted……..
-Oliver
HoHoHo
I would like to share with you a picture of my new buddy:
Even thought his lesser brethren shed the blood of my Blademaster a few times due to my carelessness, I forgive them because this guy is so darn cool. Hehe…
-Oliver