Thursday, December 22, 2005

IS THIS THE IDEA OF SHARE LINUX ???

[info] aldux!n=aldux@113-47-168.adsl.cust.tie.cl has joined #squeak <aldux[12:23]> hello <self[12:23]> hiya <aldux[12:23]> I new in squeak <aldux[12:23]> my language is spanish <aldux[12:23]> I get the latest <self[12:23]> soon your language will be squeak, my friend At this point, someone knocked on my office door. It was a tech who'd come over to repair my UPS. <aldux[12:24]> but the left click dont make nothing ..is it normal ? <aldux[12:24]> 3.8 <aldux[12:25]> and the scape key do not anything <aldux[12:26]> is it normal ? <aldux[12:26]> was elimainated this option ? <aldux[12:26]> was eliminated this option ? <aldux[12:27]> heloo !! <aldux[12:27]> hello !! <aldux[12:27]> hello !! <aldux[12:28]> anybody answer ? <aldux[12:28]> do anybody answer ? <aldux[12:29]> ?? <aldux[12:30]> thanks...IS THIS THE IDEA OF SHARE LINUX ??? <aldux[12:30]> thanks...IS THIS THE IDEA OF SHARE LINUX ??? <aldux[12:32]> CHAO RECHUCHAS DE SUS MADRES <aldux[12:33]> ALGUIEN LO ENTENDIO ?? <efc![12:36]> moo <aldux[12:36]> hola <self[12:40]> sorry, someone was at the door <aldux[12:40]> what ? <self[12:40]> left click inside squeak? <self[12:40]> when you click in a window? <self[12:40]> or on the squeak "desktop"? <self[12:41]> it should show you a menu when you click on the background No response.

Monday, December 19, 2005

viva la retro

My brother mailed me about a Windows theme to make it look like Aqua: http://www.flyakiteosx.com/. I prefer this one, though: Litestep, though I'm too scared to use it. It'll probably mess up my Windows box horribly and I'll need to reinstall and deal with activation foo. Searching around, I found an Nextstep theme for OS X: Next 2.0. I think I'll try installing it next week. I use Window Maker on FreeBSD/Linux, have done so for almost a decade. I'm unlikely to switch to anything else.

Tuesday, December 06, 2005

today's computer hardware hate

I got to work today, turned on the computer, did some stuff. After some time, I rebooted, and when it came back up, I couldn't boot off my hard drive. Either one, in fact (I have a Linux bootloader on one drive, and a Windows one on the other). I had a linux installer cd lying around (which has a rescue shell), and I booted off that and poked around the system. Everything was there, all the files and stuff. I just can't boot off the drives. Fortunately, I'd created a grub boot cd last week. I burned a cdrw, and booted off that. Now I'm back in Linuxland. The only unusual thing about my drives is that they're both SATA drives. Maybe I need a bios upgrade or something -- I've had rare problems with the bios recognizing the drives in the past, just nothing like this.

Friday, December 02, 2005

a peculiar solution

Women can't drive in Saudi Arabia (well, not officially -- unofficially, it not all that uncommon), and we get stuff like this: Tired of commuting, four teachers marry driver. If only they lived across the border in Yemen, where women can drive and make a large part of the workforce... Things are changing so slowly.

tip for surviving the coming ice age

<bpk> the ice age is imminent, we're all dead soon anyway
<sheneman> no.  I have a coat.