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Amiga packing
Got all the stuff for my Amigas together to transfer them to Aachen tomorrow. That's quiet a bunch of stuff! And I discovered how much disks for my PC I still have! I found five boxes full of 3.5" disks (plus the 2 I knew about). That is more thn I have for my Amiga (five boxes full packed, I threw away one when I stopped using the Amiga though). But the Amiga boxes contain way more different games. Compared to that six disks and up games many Amiga games needed one ore two... Will crawl through to see which are working. Gang, next tuesday meeting in my flat? ;-)
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Good week(s)
The last days were pretty good.
Last week on tuesday Buck and I played the Need for Speed Underground 2 demo. Pretty good. If you need a 1:59 on the circuit track I'm your man :-)
On the last weekend Anne, I and some of her friends where at the long museum night in Cologne. This is a pretty cool event. You pay a (rather low) fee and get free shuttle transfer and entrance to more than 3 dozens of museums and other art centers. We had a long visit to the Kunstwerk and the Kunstetage where a lot of artists present their current work and ongoing projects. That was pretty interesting and had a totally different flair compared to the usual museums...
On last tuesday I did something for my nerd level and bought a new notebook, an IBM ThinkPad T41p. Pretty cool specs and the hardware works just fine under Linux. Will post some notes to my wiki soon. It does not read DVD+RW though as I found out. Burned the new FC3 in the middle of the night to a DVD+RW for installation, without success. So went to the office and installed via network, which worked just fine. New FC3 is cool. New that before, using rawhide for months now :-) The network manager does not work as good as I hoped though. Have to find out where that comes from. But it looks rather rudimentary and some basic features seem missing (like "found WLAN, please gimme settings for WEP").
And they finally released Firefox 1.0. Nice!
On Wednesday a colleague celebrated his passed last exam. He is now officially an "Dipl. Inform." Congrats Andreas! Man this was a night with lots of beer. Got a photo named "drunken nerd", oops!
Now I'm again sitting in Buck's flat playing some computer games (my notebook is fast enough for NFSU2 as demo shows!) and having fun...
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More edges
Tried out some more upcoming packages. The new X.org X11 version looks promising. The window drop shadows and transparency feature tend to really beautify the desktop. Unfortunately it's horrible slow right now, even tried with that binary NVidia driver with only slight improvements (got it working, Medha :-). But as XFCE shows there is potential for these features.
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Better babes
Bored of bad quality pics? Try out libpr0n.
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On the edge
I like FOSS. I guess you already found that out while reading the more interesting parts of this website :-)
The first special thing I would like to mention now is the Fedora Rawhide development repository that contains the newest RPMs available for the upcoming Fedora Core version. It's a lot of fun playing around with the new software just coming out of the forge of the coders. A couple of months or even only weeks left I wouldn't consider this for my workstation. Medha already did that for a long time, I didn't - till now. And yesterday I noticed why not: my X server wouldn't start up after my daily upgrade. Damn. But it was fixed today when I updated again. I like it :-)
The other project is XFCE. A nice alternative to Gnome if you want it light weight. I tried out the beta version of the upcoming version 4.2 today. But there are still things that annoy me. Here are some details that can stick into your eyes: The theme in general is nice, but having no borders at all where they are in a standard theme just feels too floating. I found out that I like a clear structure of the GUI and not control and data that kind of mixes up. And the calendar still pops up at the wrong position. And I want a bigger display :-) Right now Gnome still feels better in my eyes. I'm using this on a VNC server since it this is the faster method for my DSL line. There is a nice XFCE developer blog for the newest stuff coming up. If you like this kind of info also try out the Fedore people blog aggregator.
