Troseph

gtk-window-decorator not working?

troy — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 02:15:23 +0000

I login after a backports update to Compiz and my window decoration isn’t working! I found that gtk-window-decorator was failing to load, so the work-around I found was to go to System>Preferences>Sessions, and add a new entry for:

gtk-window-decorator

Now my close maximize and minimize buttons are there again… Odd..

Mark Shuttleworth: You can cram it.

troy — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:19:33 +0000

Ubuntu needs beauty work, they admit, it will be the focus of the next release. However, I would like to salute Mark S.’s poor taste in design with WillWill’s GDM Concept. Sadly and in all likelihood it will not work it’s way into Intrepid. Every one of Will’s works has been amazing, yet all get shot down by those who prefer to use every tone of poop brown or puke orange they can document off the floor of a nursery or dance club.

So here it is, the artwork I am wishing would be considered for Ubuntu’s next release. The artwork that inspires Elementary’s upcoming release.

Elementary Desktop Taking Shape

troy — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:03:11 +0000

I have been dedicating some of my free time to this project, and it is looking like something real now. The current plan is to base it off Ubuntu, I think Ubuntu Ultimate might be the best option, but we’re keeping our minds open as far as the OS goes. I am working hard to get a .deb installer built for the theme and default settings.

Some highlights/goals of the project:

clean, useable, and simple UI
new package manager in the works — dash

Here are some screenshots:

GDM

Default Desktop:

traceroute from Comcast to BlueHost [wtf?]

troy — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:21:43 +0000

I was wondering why my site was taking FOREVER to load… Looks like something between Comcast and level3.net (AT&T) is really bad.. Here is the trace:

troy@troy-desktop:~$ sudo traceroute troy-watson.com
traceroute to troy-watson.com (69.89.31.181), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 * * *
2 * * *
3 * * *
4 COMCAST-IP.car1.Seattle1.Level3.net (4.79.104.110) 1051.037 ms * *
5 * * *
6 * ae-14-51.car4.Seattle1.Level3.net (4.68.105.5) 970.128 ms 829.879 ms
7 INTEGRA-TEL.car4.Seattle1.Level3.net (4.71.156.30) 840.020 ms 498.107 ms 388.462 ms
8 tg9-4.cr01.sttlwatw.integra.net (209.63.114.133) 84.859 ms 74.570 ms 77.684 ms
9 tg13-1.cr01.ptleorte.integra.net (209.63.114.98) 77.398 ms 95.024 ms 137.277 ms
10 tg13-4.cr02.ptleorte.integra.net (209.63.114.142) 895.688 ms 902.977 ms 905.247 ms
11 tg13-1.cr02.boisidpz.integra.net (209.63.114.18) 907.638 ms 910.046 ms 912.363 ms
12 tg13-4.cr01.boisidpz.integra.net (209.63.114.13) 917.004 ms 919.320 ms 921.591 ms
13 tg13-1.cr01.slkcutxd.integra.net (209.63.114.30) 923.985 ms 926.359 ms 928.767 ms
14 tg9-1.ar10.slkcutxd.integra.net (209.63.114.254) 930.246 ms 931.733 ms 933.158 ms
15 gw0-cust-bluehost-com.slkc.eli.net (70.97.59.22) 934.537 ms 74.875 ms 230.638 ms
16 * * *
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1051.037 ms!?!?!? Come on! This is like dialup! 15Mb/s my ass.

Vista SP1 [w00t?]

troy — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:41:11 +0000

Well I booted my machine to vista… And this is how it went down…

Yay! Service Pack 1!

WTF Service Pack 1?

Dust Devils on Mars [OMG]

troy — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 19:51:40 +0000

This is the coolest thing I have seen in my life. These animated images are from photos captured by Mars lander Phoenix.

MySpace.com [finally] Jazzes Up Their Design

troy — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 04:34:57 +0000

Looks like MySpace has upgraded their look and feel. Finally.. I wonder how long it will be before they update and optimize their datacenters. For those of you lucky enough not to have accounts, here is their (my) new home page… It doesn’t look bad at all.

OpenSolaris 2008.05

troy — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:06:44 +0000

I’ve never really been a huge fan of Sun or Solaris, but after running it for a couple hours, it seems that almost everything “just works”; its great! To an novice it would seem like any other Linux distro, but its not! Its about 20% more responsive, and very stable. Great job Sun!

Enough talk, here are the pretty pictures everyone is here to see:

Booting:

Grub:

GDM login:

Default Gnome Desktop:

About the OpenSolaris:

Firefox (joy) Flash works too!:

File Manager:

Package Manager (Installing GAIM):

Tutorials Page

troy — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:18:47 +0000

I’m compiling all my tutorials on my site. I will have tutorials for Gimp, Inkscape, Photoshop, and others when I get around to them. Click here to see the tutorials.

Metallica Sucks

troy — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 21:36:12 +0000

I’m here to tell you something everyone knows, but Metallica still doesn’t get, and that is new Metallica is horrible, and that the Internet is a big place where little people can say what they would like. Metallica’s “people” have been contacting blogging providers and having them remove negative reviews of their music. This is simply bogus. Metallica doesn’t get the internet as you might remember with the whole napster thing. Which in their minds was a huge win, but they apparently don’t know what BitTorrent is because you can do a search on scrapetorrent and download their entire discography. Yeah. I’m wasting my energy typing about a much of megalomaniac old bastards. Screw you, Metallica.