KDE 4.2

Finally KDE4 series is starting to show some stability. It looks like it’s possible to start using this new Linux desktop.

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Running Amiga (EUAE) in Asus EEE PC 900

1) Get E-UAE from this page: Amiga emulator on Asus eeePC (e-uae_0.8.29-WIP4_linux-i586_sdl.tar.bz2 works nicely). 1.1) Extract (and move) files into ~/amiga/uae directory 2) Fiddle with settings, and get frustrated (too slow emulation speed, sound failing) 3) Take these config files and scripts, and enjoy Copy into ~/s/run_uae.sh [code] UAE=~/amiga/uae/uae CONF=~/amiga/uae_00.conf if [ ”$4” != ””…

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Experiences with KDE 4.1

Finally! After long waiting KDE 4.1 was released. After very bad experiences with KDE 4.0, I decided to see what has improved. For whole week I tried to use KDE 4.1 instead of KDE 3.5.9, and conclusion is quick. Conclusion for KDE 4.1: KDE 4.1 is still very slow and unstable. Like snail crawling in…

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Firefox 3 consumes less memory than Opera 9.50

Strange claims has been going around that new that Firefox 3 would consume less memory than Opera 9.50. From historical perspectice claim sounds interesting, since historically Opera has been much more memory efficient than Firefox. Thus lets make a simple test, with slight unfairness into direction of Opera, since it’s my main browser and has…

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Fixing braindead Gnome

As we all know, Gnome is braindead system, and nobody in sane state of mind touches it, except with 3 meter long hot stick to beat the beast down. Now, even if you have reached first step of sanity, which means that you haven’t installed it at all. Then still gnome system fails to honor…

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Laughing aloud to KDE 4.0.3

It’s simply dog slow… Just moving mouse in Dolphin, consumes 100% of CPU. And when it’s idling.., then it consumes something between 5% – 30% of CPU. That can be called ridiculously non-performant. Some idiot is seemingly thinking that there isn’t ever any better user for CPU cycles than UI updating. For some strange reason…

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KDE4 is big fat joke

While being long time KDE4 user, and deeply disliking gnome opensource geeks (due to their insistent way of pushing ideology over practical solutions). Considering all this it’s very sad to see that KDE4 seems to be just big, ugly joke released as desktop. One of the most stupid features in KDE4 are these ”plasmoids” in…

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Linux x86_64 is hell

Not so surprisingly, Linux x86_64 is pure hell. Namely after trying to configure it to have all multimedia capabilities. At this point of time hell comes loose, and everything starts to break down due to dependency hell. And end result is just twisted sick compromise of possibilities. Thus if one is wanting to be able…

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