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you didn't think this was the kind of straight from the heart diary, with all my secrets and thoughts, did you?
made this
page just to keep track of things i did to my box, discovery of new applications
and such. just thought it would be fun to read sometime in the future.
this is meant to entertain me, and me alone, but if you want to read on,
please do.
05-29-2002
reiserfs has been causing some trouble for me.
but again i fixed it. my debian install is now 18 months old :) i love the fact that blackbox development is back
at it's feet. many thanks to sean 'shaleh' perry and brad hughes for their efforts. 02-16-2002 wow! time flies.
running 2.4.17 kernel, maybe i should check out the new 2.5.x beta kernels some day. nothing much to report.
i love the thought of new development in blackbox. 11-05-2001 been doing
the walk through 2.4.11, 2.4.12 and 2.4.13, things looks good now. there
is one thing that bugs me though. i must admit i haven't read up on it,
but the thing is when you use a patch to go from 2.4.12 to 2.4.13, and
you run make oldconfig, everything is sweet, except one thing. when you
run uname -r you get #2, as in build #2 when you have one compiled the
kernel once. and yes, i know i am picky. guess i have to find a solution
to this if there is one. i have tried
out nautilus. it just died and died and died. not impressing at all. pronto! is
a sweet mailclient. but is has issues with attachments. so now i am giving
balsa a try again. evolution is so big and bloathed. but it is good to
have such an application to offer. even though the calendar functionality
dies on my and won't even start now. vim 6 is
hardcore sweetness all the way. i thought
bbconf was rubbish. that's a pretty harsh statement. but it just was not
my kind of application. i have tried the theme-builder functionality and
i thought it was hard to use and just not what i want to use. i know the
old toolbox is pretty full of crap to, but i prefer this to make my themes.
i guess i have to take another look at it. and come up with some more
constuctive feedback. "holy
diva - i'm a surviva - feeling like de niro in taxi driva" i really
thought my system was fucked up. ldconfig was killed by sigbus every time
i ran it. 09-01-2001 been testing
sylpheed, a rather sweet mail-client (gui). threaded news and mail. also
support gpg. games under
linux is not what is used to be. downloaded kohan:
immortal sovereigns and i really like the way loki has setup things
with the loki_update functionality and such. just fire up loki_update
and grab a demo you would like to check out, it also supports resume for
those big downloads. abiword is
a sweet word processor too. that about covers everything for now. 08-19-2001 2.4.9 is
up and running. nothing else of importance to report. :) 08-15-2001 my main problem
lately has been my isdn card. finished building kernel 2.4.8 and i could
not get online, due to hisax problems. solving the problem was easy, thanks
to my comrade audun. had to do a 'pnpdump - c > /etc/isapnp.conf' and
then add a line i had removed from the dialup script i used. so now it
works then. i now know where things are in kernel 2.4.8 at least. :) now i no
longer have a problem with dri and games under x 4.1.0 either. guess i
had just fucked up under my last kernelbuild (2.4.7). a note to all of
you with kernel 2.4.8, dri in 2.4.8 will only work with x 4.1.0. no other
new found sweet software to report. i think playing chromium is pretty
fun though. check it out here
. 08-10-2001 the last
couple of days i have been troubled with galeon and gconf. this problem
has finally been solved. and i love the sweetness of galeon. with mozilla
0.9.3 it is fast and stable. still x is
fscking things up with games. can't really spot the problem either. tore
looked at it today, but we got no closer to a solution. gotta read some
more x 4.1.0 documentation. probably someone else with the same problem
out there. last night
geir torstein found a fscking great ftp client called yafc (it's under
my recommended page). i didn't know ncftp was not GPL, so apt-get remove
ncftp ans apt-get install yafc. and it's so much better than ncftp too.
real sweetheart. thank you geir torstein :) me and geir
torstein talked about old amiga games the other day, and geir torstein
told me about uae (unix amiga emulator). so much fun to play good old
stuntcar racer, but this time on my linux machine. i am working
on how to get gpg to work with pronto. guess i have to bite the dust and
go for mutt on this one, but it would be kind of cool to get it working
with pronto. well guess
that's about it for now. the bastard
wrote...
currently running kernel 2.4.18.
i also tried out the whitebox application. and i
found out it was load of cowdroppings. i do not need gui to edit my menu, i like to use gui to make themes,
but sad to say whitebox was useless with this purpose in mind. still some ok stuff with the root-image handler. but all
and all, i run blackbox cause i like to use terminals for the most of my work. and i am not gnomified yet. and it
would be nice if the fucking application really did save the changes i did to my menu.
09-24-2001
apt-get/dpkg depends on ldconfig during dist-upgrades and installation
of packages. so i thought the only way out was to reinstall debian.
trying out different kernels and shit with no result. then tonight playing
with reiserfsck, it is now back to normal. thank the almighty lord of
unix.
now i have 80 new fresh packages waiting to come down in my dist-upgrade.
:)
nothing much else new. gonna check out bbconf tonight. give you a report
on that later on.
i need to check out slrn some day (console news reader).
