My Desktop

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Oct 182011

I’ve always liked looking at screenshots of peoples desktops. Then I realized I have never uploaded a screenshot of my desktop so here it is in it’s current form :smile:

I haven’t posted my system specs or how I got it to look like this but if you are interested, asking always works ;)

Posted by Fabian Enos at 1:47 AM Tagged with: , , , , ,

Tweety

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Aug 072010

In the last few days, I have been trying to find a twitter client for jaunty but so far nothing works or there are unresolvable dependencies. I could get the dependencies from the newer distros but then I might break something so I decided not to. Instead, I have decided to create a twitter client.

Yes, you heard me correctly. I will create a twitter client for jaunty. Scratch that. I will create a twitter client that will run on any GNU/Linux distro without crying about missing dependencies. I will create it in pyGTK so it will work almost anywhere. It will of course be open source.

Therefore I introduce you to Tweety. It is named in honor of Tweety from The Looney Toons which is one of my all time favorite cartoons so I will probably try to make its icon look like Tweety. I registered the application already with the name Tweety by Midnight Labs since Tweety was already taken. It will take at least a week to create and test this app and it will be launched in a new area of my site called Midnight Labs which goes live before Tweety goes public. (I haven’t worked out all the details yet)

If you would like to know when Tweety is released then drop me a line (either in the comments or via twitter or through the contact page).

Posted by Fabian Enos at 4:17 AM Tagged with: , , , , , , , ,

[FIX] Splashy Problem in Jaunty

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May 202010

So I just removed usplash from my jaunty installation and installed splashy. The problem was that when I rebooted, splashy did not start and the verbose showed this error:

Splashy ERROR: Connection refused

So after searching the web for fixes and nearly cracking my head, I found the problem.

When splashy is installed, it adds itself to the boot parameters of the kernel but it forgets to add the video mode. So after installing splashy, the kernel boot line looks like this:

kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic root=UUID=d3cef047-ce4f-434e-8091-9236d5785f61 ro quiet splash

All you have to do to get splashy to work is add vga=792

So after edititing /boot/grub/menu.lst, the kernel boot line should look like this:

kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic root=UUID=d3cef047-ce4f-434e-8091-9236d5785f61 ro quiet splash vga=792

Save the file and reboot and splashy starts as is should.

Note: You need root privileges to edit the boot menu.

Posted by Fabian Enos at 1:41 AM Tagged with: , , ,
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