What’s more awesome than awesome? This.
09:33 < jspears> is there an equivalent to ‘awesome -k’ for awesome3?
09:33 < jspears> I tried just using lua but it seems to error on valid syntax
09:34 < farhaven> I just start another X server
09:34 < farhaven> like this: startx — :1
09:34 < farhaven> and if awesome works fine [...]
that’s my stapler
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mount your Treo 650 software CD under linux
How to mount your hybrid Windows / Mac “Treo 650 Software Installation CD” under linux so you can see the Windows portion of the disc:
mount -t iso9660 -o ro,norock /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
For reasons I’m not too interested in, the norock option is mandatory if you don’t want to see an empty directory.
coding in the ivory tower
My favorite IM client, recently renamed to Pidgin, also recently released a new beta version that diverges significantly from previous behavior and appearance. I get the impression, looking at their site, that this is to be treated as a near-release candidate.
One of the devs points out in his blog that there’s a current hot [...]
copy / paste workarounds in gnome
If you’re forced to work around copy and paste limitations in Gnome with certain X11 applications (xterm!), I can heartily recommend leafpad over gedit. It’s much lighter and quicker to start.
beryl 0.2.0 released
The new version of beryl, a compositing X11 window manager, was released today. Hurray for the eye candy, and some cool usability in the bargain!
I especially like Scale (think Mac’s Expose) and translucency with blur for helping find or keep track of open windows. Here’s one of the better videos demonstrating some real [...]
lirc, stupid mplayer tricks
I’ve not taken the time to find out which package needs fixage, but modifying /etc/lirc/hardware.conf so that DEVICE=”/dev/lirc0″ fixed the lirc startup problems where it wasn’t finding the (correct) device.
I tried mplayer with aalib1 built in last night. Somewhat less than really useful, but cool.
ExtremeTech not so extreme
ExtremeTech has an abbreviated roundup of “TiVo Killers”, which means they’ve installed three PVR apps under Windows XP and looked at them. They only mention Mythtv to say
People familiar with PVR applications for the PC are probably aware of Myth TV, and are wondering why the free homebrew project isn’t included. The answer is [...]
urss considered harmful
urss is a Mozilla / Firefox extension that provides a side-scrolling ticker of your RSS feed(s). Sounds nifty, and it was exactly what I was looking for at the time I first installed it. However, after I tired of it (and discovered Sage) I looked for a way to uninstall. Oh boy.
urss [...]