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Comment on Big Buck Bunny - Official Trailer on Vimeo by Amadan

Amadan — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:18:21 +0000

You should check this post out using the RSS feed. It has a huge list of online gambling site links embedded in it. You’ve been spammed somehow.

Comment on Trying out KDE by Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:10:30 +0000

I’ve never been real fond of it for exactly the opposite reasons: I’ve always felt Gnome looked much better, and I didn’t want a Windows-like interface.

However after seeing it on someone else’s desktop recently I thought I’d give it another try. While the defaults resemble Windows, it can also be configured in such a way as to resemble CDE

I’ve only been playing with it for about 3 days (and going all the way: trying out Konquerer as a replacement for Firefox, Kopete to replace Gaim/Pidgin and Kontact/Kmail in place of Thunderbird) but so far I’m liking it. Of course, I’m having to adjust to not having the addons I customarily install in Firefox, and both Kontact and Konqueror have crashed at random times. Kopete, however, feels like quite a step up from Pidgin.

And thanks for pointing out the error in the title. I wonder when that happened?

Comment on Gentoo Linux? by Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:47:41 +0000

Those are exactly the reasons I started playing with it. Adding that when you do need to add something, it’s very easy, unlike some more prominent Linux distros I’ve played with (think getting any kind of video, or mp3 support, working)

It seems to mix the best of FreeBSD and Linux: the FreeBSD package management / build system, with the Linux kernel and GNU tools. (I say “best of” on the Linux side only because, having used them much more than FreeBSD, I’m more familiar and comfortable with, say, iptables than pf).

Like you, I found that while it might make a good server (where you’re not updating every day), it’s got a way to go for the desktop. I don’t want to wait 6 hours while my desktop builds X and Gnome, then another 3 to build Firefox.
It was Firefox taking hours to build, then running like a sloth that caused me to give up on it, at least on any desktop where I need to get work done. I’ve switched my work desktop to Ubuntu, which I’ve been using on various machines for a couple of years now.

Comment on Trying out KDE by Amadan

Amadan — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:28:17 +0000

I’ve never been able to get enthused about KDE, even though it is prettier than Gnome, and more Windows-like.

Btw, your blog’s subtitle now says “The Life and Times a Unix Geek” — you are missing an “of.”

Comment on Gentoo Linux? by Amadan

Amadan — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:26:18 +0000

I like Gentoo a lot, because it’s very much like FreeBSD — you can build a bare-bones system, and then add only what you need, as you need it.

I found out the hard way that it’s terrible for production machines, though, because the Gentoo team changes things so often, you are likely to find services breaking every time you do an update.

Comment on 100,000^3 feet of acetylene go BOOM! by /dev/zero » Fire in down town Dallas « Bartonomusings

/dev/zero » Fire in down town Dallas « Bartonomusings — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 18:37:48 +0000

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Comment on Subhuman cretins by /dev/zero » Blog Archive » “Asides” not working right

/dev/zero » Blog Archive » “Asides” not working right — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 21:55:32 +0000

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Comment on Test post by andrew

andrew — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 22:34:10 +0000

That’s good to know. I’ll have to look at my other installed plugins and see which one is causing this. I’d really like to use INAP.

Comment on Test post by Aaron

Aaron — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 22:28:46 +0000

I just checked the line that is at fault, and it seems that it is not technically the fault of INAP, but an incompatibility with another plugin.

Comment on Test post by andrew

andrew — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 21:14:17 +0000

Aaron,

[Sun Apr 22 15:05:57 2007] [error] [client 65.68.206.151] PHP Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/pure-chaos.com/domains/blogs.pure-chaos.com/public_html/andrew/wp-content/plugins/inline-ajax-page.2.2.3/inap.php:311) in /home/pure-chaos.com/domains/blogs.pure-chaos.com/public_html/andrew/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 275, referer: http://blogs.pure-chaos.com/andrew/wp-admin/post.php?action=edit&post=641

It should be noted that this may be due to the plugin not being fully configured, rather than a bug in the plugin itself. I recall I was interrupted in the middle of setting it up a few days ago and hadn’t been back to it.

Comment on Test post by Aaron

Aaron — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 20:20:51 +0000

Out of curiosity, what was the INAP error you were getting? I’ve never heard about a similar error.

Comment on Blank page after post or save by /dev/zero » Blog Archive » Test post

/dev/zero » Blog Archive » Test post — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 20:06:15 +0000

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Comment on LJxpost working by andrew

andrew — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 05:04:36 +0000

OK, so it actually points out in the footer on LJ that you can go to the WP blog to post a comment, if I leave it open to comments on LJ. I think I like that option.
Now let’s see what it does with comments here.

Comment on Someone doesn’t read English real well by /dev/zero » Blog Archive » Aaaand someone doesn’t understand procedure

Thu, 05 Apr 2007 20:56:15 +0000

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