Ok , I could not slip this post up. Being the cross platform slider that I am, I love working with Linux but hate the sometimes rudimentary boxiness of the graphical user interface. Sure .. Beryl and all that stuff is nice. But there must be nicer ways of totaly pimping out your Gnome desktop…
An interesting conversation at work inspired me to do todays article. Topic at hand was a brochure of one of the local supermarkets featuring a very nice desktop system from HP. For a small 900 euro’s you could get your hands on a sleek black compact tower with a 2 gigahertz Octo-Core system. Dvd writer,…
The web 2.0 does offer some interesting challenges to most of us these days. I for one am constantly feeling that I’m “missing out” on stuff that other people “seem to get”. There is always some news item that is hot on the feeds, or always something going down in one of the many web…
Thanx to Koen from QueenBlingerie (yes yes , the ones from the add) for pointing out this little one : How about having a go at "Simpsonising yourself" Just upload your photo to this website and make sure you choose the right eyes , color of skin, hair and mouth and after 20 minutes of…
What if there was a place you could send your secrets to … Thanx to Captain Command line who found this little gem for you to ponder upon. Links : PostSecret. Related PostsNo Related Posts
There, The living room is finished an all the furniture is back where it belongs. Doing the finishing touches tool a little longer then we thought but we wanted it to be perfect and now it is. All we need is some pictures in the frames and the stuff is good to go. (But those…
Almost a week since my last update ! Oh my am I ever ashamed. Yet to be honest I’ve got another great excuse up my sleeve to tell you guys (and girls) why you had to miss new stuff from the cutting edge of real and cyberspace. I (or should I say WE ) have…
FREE ONE HOUR MP3's OF DJ TIëSTO IN CONCERT ALL OVER THE WORLD. There, That will get both yours and Google's attention I hope. But rest assured : This is no Idle spam I"m boasting my friends. I'm seldom hyped about anything but what I had fished up on Itunes this week did pop my…
As we get ready to put down a new floor in our living room, time for blogging is limited. Yet I do not want to deprive you of your daily dose of Cyber news. So from between the stacked up boxes of stuff, our living room couch that has somehow levitated upstairs to come cramp…
One of the things I absolutely LOVE about the new Feisty Distro of Ubuntu Linux are the Compiz and Beryl additions to the Gnome and KDE desktop. For those of you who think I'm "Geordi-la-Forging" ( Pulling techterms out of my butt) let me simplify it for you : What Rox about Ubuntu are the…
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For those of you tracking the " Feisty for the family" series or those who have listened to the podcast episodes ' Remote domination part 1 and 2 ' , you all know what SSH is by now. For those of you who don't ? Well SSH is a way to control a…
A low technology weekend is something everybody should have once in a while. Time to clamp down on keyboard time an gently squeeze down on the " bandwidth consumed per hour " to actually spend some time with the family. Goffy (Nyana's sister) invited us for some Gourmet ( Where a combination of raw meat…
As promised 🙂 The video of our little outing at the Paradisio Zoo .. hits youtube. 🙂 Enjoy ! Related PostsNo Related Posts
A cool little story on Digg today. Somewhere somehow an adult managed to take a huge risk to photograph a children's book before it was released… And borked up big time. Of course you all know what i'm talking about. Somewhere somebody took the risk of shooting pictures of the new Harry Potter book (number…
To grab a breath of fresh air, we hopped over to the Paradisio Zoo in Ath, near Chaleroi on friday. For all af the birdie fans we shot some pictures. Check them out here. Related PostsNo Related Posts
Everybody with the words "Apple Fanboy" on the tips of their tongues can start reaching for a cold beer to swallow them down. I'm by far an Apple Fanboy. Very true : I just placed the order for my Imac (see the article below) and am waiting (although not very patiently) for the thing to…
If there is one thing I truly hate it must be attachments in Email. No seriously ? What the crap is up with that ! ! The Smtp protocol that blissfully shoves email all over the globe was invented a long time ago (in a galaxy not SO far away) by some genious ubergeek to…
Most of you know by now that I sold my last 'Home built" pc a few weeks ago. And as it is with geeks.. Money from sold off hardware .. just sitting there .. has slim chances of ever getting back to the bank. Lets face it 🙂 It's toy-money. And what do you buy…
Aaah 🙂 Vacation ! Holiday ! Time-out ! Time off ! Doing blissfully absolutely NOTHING right up to some preposterous hour in the morning. Just lying on the couch watching Kids TV ! We might be in our thirties but on a Sunday morning we like NOTHING more then plant our pijama-wearing booties in the…
With the first day of our annual vacation kicking in, it was time to celebrate. Celebrate what ? The coming of the (so far pretty wet) summer ? The annual beaching of the Nagatomian Jellyfish ? The fact that I my socks on the right way from the first try ? No, actually .. Me…
You should not believe everything you see on the internet. If we did most of us would be rich beyond our dreams, own a PHD in Philosophy, be a genuine priest, have been known to help free a prince in africa and of course have A phallus thats three meters long with stamina to match.…
I did not think I was ever going to do it, yet yesterday it happened. It sold it. The last of its kind here in the house. The last giant in a long tradition. Yep : I sold my last 'custom built' computer. Back when I started out with PC's there where almost no "oem" computers…
Too damn nice to pass up : Building your own "Falcon" using Stop Motion animation. This guy obviously does NOT have a girlfriend. Related PostsNo Related Posts
Random Chat 🙂 Starring Daniel (Captain Command line) dropping in after seeing my Ubuntu Desktop screenshot. (08:41:03 PM) Turner: no way!(08:41:10 PM) Turner: a mac OS X cross with ubuntu!(08:41:13 PM) Turner: awesome dude!(08:41:18 PM) Knightwise: Vista background !(08:41:30 PM) Knightwise: its a standard Gdesklett(08:45:24 PM) Turner: where'd you get it at…
The mark of a newbie is he who dares to dive into endless forum conversations that have been going on since the dawn of time. Who is the best ISP, Is Nokia better then Ericsson, Is Mac better then Windows, Is Kde better then Gnome.. and so on and so on. Before you know it…
If there is one thing that held me back from enjoying Linux, then it must be VI ! “Vi”is an anchient terminal program that lets you edit textfiles. Not like a word processor or anything, no : Configuration files. Now it might look very simple (or prime evil) if you look at it, but it…
Not everybody uses the internet as their canvas. Not everyone is a part of the web 2.0 community. Not everybody's creative ideas flow forth from the backlight of a TFT display. Some people stick to using more conventional ways of expressing their artistic feelings. Here in town for example we have an art-school. This can…
Now here is interesting news. A short while ago Google released their Linux version of Google desktop. Along with Google Earth its another popular Google app that makes the transfer to the open source world. Now as for me : I would not touch Google Desktop with a five foot pole. No seriously…
There is a certain atmosphere that one can hardly describe. A certain aura that floats around the fringes of reality from time to time. A distinct impression of god knows what. Very tangible, very real, yet very hard to explain. Yet I encountered one of these atmospheres this morning. Those moments that you…
