New wallpaper released!
Daddy released a new wallpaper for me! Here’s a preview:
You can download the 1280 x 960 version in JPG here.
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas everyone! Fon and I will be celebrating our anniversary on New Year’s Eve with the fireworks.
Jimmy is due to come down and join us for New Year and we are planning to watch the Hitman movie. I’m also planning to hit up with Cassandra and watch AVP: Requiem this Saturday. Where the hell did 2007 go?
New song release: In Transit
I recently put together a song to reflect all the changes that are happening in my life. My daughter is growing up fast and she’s almost one year old. I’m also due to complete my postgraduate studies in the next few months and where do I stand in the coming years?
The song is called “In Transit”. Check it out at amazingtunes.com.
An easy way to change wallpaper in Fluxbox
Some of the following information are taken from here.
1. Open a terminal and edit the init file in your home directory (eg. /home/username/.fluxbox/init).
2. Search for the line: “session.screen0.rootCommand:” and add “fbsetbg -l” after the colon. Save the file and exist.
3. Create a file called “chbg.sh” (or to anything you like) and save it in a desirable location (eg. /home/username/).
4. Copy the following code to chbg.sh. Save and exit.
#!/bin/bash
mypic=$(kdialog –getopenfilename ~/)
if [ $? -eq 0 ] ; then
chbg -mode maximize $mypic
echo “\$full|$mypic|:0.0″ > ~/.fluxbox/lastwallpaper
fi
5. Make chbg.sh executable.
chmod a+x chbg.sh
6. You must install eterm in order for this to work. So install eterm.
sudo apt-get install eterm
7. Now, double-click chbg.sh to change the wallpaper. You may need to restart Fluxbox to see the change.
Remote desktop to Windows XP on Ubuntu
1. Install rdesktop.
apt-get install rdesktop
2. Remote desktop to the desired machine with IP address.
rdesktop 10.1.1.4
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Hi guys. I just stopped by to share some recent photos.
Ubuntu … again
I woke up at 3:00 AM this morning and couldn’t go back to sleep because of the heat. So I decided to reinstall Ubuntu in 32 bit instead of the frustrating 64 bit. Now it works like a charm.
For those who have 64 bit machines and want to run Ubuntu, I strongly recommend to use the 32 bit Ubuntu.
Week 4 in summer
Hello again. We are in Week 4 of the summer semester at CQU. Time is flying and I’m a tad closer to finishing my Master of Information Technology. Speaking of goals…
I finally managed to install Flash Player on my Ubuntu 64 after some trial and error. So now at least I can surf the Internet without having to worry about my browser not being able to display Flash contents. I’m still trying to install Wine so that I can install a bunch of games and useless Windows applications.
Ubuntu with desktop effects
Last week was rather busy. There was a little incident that got us pretty upset over the weekend. We booked for Carrara Market and turned up first on Saturday morning. By the time of handing out tickets the security guard reckons that there is a council policy which states that we can’t arrive at 3:19 AM but 3:25 AM was ok. Consequently, we got the last ticket instead of the first one (the people who arrived at 3:25 AM got the first ticket). So what did we do? We gave back the ticket and left.
Anyway, getting to the point, I managed to convert my home desktop from Windows XP to Ubuntu on Sunday. Since the machine came with an Nvidia Geforce 6500 LE card, the desktop effects that come with Compiz Fusion are amazingly good. I think now I’ll never go back to Windows again. I have 2 machines running Ubuntu and I think eventually I will convert everything to Linux and kiss goodbye to Microsoft.