Archive for January, 2006

DVD Burner for the Thinkpad

Monday, January 30th, 2006

Well I ended up finding a alright deal for the DVD-RW that would fit my Thinkpad R51. Ended up getting it today and it seems to be working pretty good for me. There are some issues to work out but nothing to do with the drive itself and it is making some nice backups of [...]

Just found this while killing some time

Sunday, January 29th, 2006

Found a interesting Vote on the Lenovo site for the new model Thinkpad.
You can check it out here (Which Side Are You On?)

I dont want to work tomorrow

Sunday, January 29th, 2006

Ended up stickinbg with fluxbox for now, and sorted out that issue with the fonts on some pages. Add this to the ~/.fluxbox/startup file;

/usr/lib/control-center/gnome-settings-daemon &

Not really sure what is going on but it fixes the fonts and some table layouts in firefox.
Didn’t really due to much this weekend other that some stuff around the [...]

The Dream mpd Client

Saturday, January 28th, 2006

I just found a Music Player Daemon Client that is a dream come true. It dosnt have fancy cover art or a nice gui to add and remove music, but it runs in the console and has auto complete. I really love this thing because of the auto complete. I think anyone using mpd should [...]

A little change to spice up the desktop

Saturday, January 28th, 2006

Was playing around today with fluxbox as I wanted to see what was new in the whole *box world of window managers. It is still nice, clean, and quick still. I dont think I will be able to keep use it as some odd things like this edit page I am using to make the [...]

Music Player Daemon

Saturday, January 28th, 2006

Ended up installing the Music Player Daemon on my freevo box when I got home from work today. I had been using freevo, but if I am in the kitchen or relaxing in bed I wanted to be able to change it with the laptop. Since freevo didnt have a nice way for me to [...]

DataTraveler 1GB Flash Drive

Wednesday, January 25th, 2006

After having the 1GB Kingston DataTraveler USB Flash Drive I thought I would write up a little review.
It has come in handy for so much stuff, and after a little work had no issues in Linux or Windows. Really the only three bad things I have to say about it are all to do [...]