Jan 10

10012010Ok, new year, new decade and a new desktop.
New ? not exactly. It takes most of my prebious desktop features and ressources with some changes and evolutions.
I’m trying to give you most of the details and ressources (orignals and my mods) bellow, in case you need to ask for something that missing, feel free to comments.
Happy new year to all :)

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Jan 10

I’ve just got a brand new HP Probook 5310m. It’s a really cute and efficient piece of hardware and almost everything worked out of the box after installing an ubuntu karmic 9.10.

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Nov 19

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Here is my second eee desktop setup for november.

GTK Theme is devART Autumn 09 edition metacity comes from Sugar suite.
I made a few modifications to gtkrc, I’ll try to update this post with a diff between original and mine.

Conkyrc is the same as last time.

The dock is cairo-dock with a custom theme (prefer the packages from cairo-dock repositories than the one from ubuntu repositories).
The clock is a cairo-dock detached desklet.

I change colors of the wallpaper, original is here

Update : as promised, here is the diff between original gtkrc file and my modified one :

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Nov 16

I discovered yesterday, after reading this article, a bios option to overclock my eee pc processor.

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Nov 10

Here is a short but very handy (at least for me ;) ) chaetsheet for vim commands

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Nov 04

04112009Here is my november setup on my Asus eee 1101HA, running ubuntu jaunty (9.04) with gnome.
I have to try a lighter environment because gnome eats too much memory, unfortunately no time at the moment.

You’ll find below most of the used ressources in this setup.

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Oct 27

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The main purpose of this post is to gather some informations needed to properly install ubuntu jaunty on an Asus eee PC 1101HA.

Update : Karmic on a eee pc 1101 HA :

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Jul 27

I’ve just got a brand new dedicated server. I’ve installed an ubuntu server 9.04 and default locale was configured to fr_FR.FR@euro (which is ISO). My first try to change this to UTF-8 was to run :

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Apr 09

Gospy-applet is a Gnome applet that monitors changes on servers and web pages. You can add an illimited number of sources to monitor. It is possible to detect changes in HTTP header fields, IP associated with domain name, page content, page status, page load time and so on.

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Jan 08

gmHere’s a new howto explaining the steps to compile, install and enable the gnome-globalmenu-0.7 series from trunk on your desktop.

This has been tested on Ubuntu intrepid ibex but it should work on hardy too. It should also work with other distributions, except for the first step (dependencies install).
Globalmenu works with “real” gtk applications. That means globalmenu will not work with firefox and openoffice.

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