http://www.troseph.com Mathematical Anti Telharsic Harfatum Septomin Mon, 18 Aug 2008 02:15:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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.. http://www.troseph.com/2008/08/gtk-window-decorator-not-working/ 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 ... http://www.troseph.com/2008/08/mark-shuttleworth-you-can-cram-it/ 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 ... http://www.troseph.com/2008/07/elementary-desktop/ 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 ... http://www.troseph.com/2008/06/traceroute-from-comcast-to-bluehost-wtf/ Well I booted my machine to vista... And this is how it went down... Yay! Service Pack 1! WTF Service Pack 1? http://www.troseph.com/2008/06/vista-sp1-w00t/ This is the coolest thing I have seen in my life. These animated images are from photos captured by Mars lander Phoenix. http://www.troseph.com/2008/06/dust-devils-on-mars-omg/ 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. http://www.troseph.com/2008/06/myspacecom-new-design/ 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. ... http://www.troseph.com/2008/06/opensolaris-200805/ 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. http://www.troseph.com/2008/06/tutorials-page/ 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 ... http://www.troseph.com/2008/06/metallica-sucks/