Last time I tried to switch to Xfce, I abandoned due to lack of time to configure it to my needs/habits. This weekend I tried again, spent the necessary hour to get my panel launchers in order and everything, and started to test things… I’m impressed. Xfce 4.4 works really well. It’s much more reactive…
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New layouts in Claws CVS
Wide-screen users will probably love the new layout possibilities of Claws Mail: The standard layout: Three columns layout: Wide message list: Wide message: …
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Stuff that happens to sysadmins
Lose one hour thinking this RAID controller driver must be buggy because « mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 » errors out with « No such device ». After this hour, figure out from man 2 mount that ENODEV means « filesystemtype not configured in the kernel. » instead. Duh. Accept the fact that some gigabit switches from an anonymous vendor that has…
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« Bloody fanatics »
Dear various people I’ve had the pleasure to read on various mailing-lists, forums, and blogs, about Firefox® versus Iceweasel. If the fanatic named Richard Stallman hadn’t been a « fanatic » when he struggled with his printer, Free Software may not exist[1]. If the fanatics building our distributions weren’t « fanatics », we’d still be using XFree86…
17/10/2006 Lire la suite...
