Have been playing around with a new window manager (new as in for me, I've only used fluxbox, kde and gnome before) called DWM - see more information on www.suckless.org. I'm running it on a T400 with RHEL6 (which uses gnome login manager - gde). Basically if you want to …

xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources while true; do # BAT=$(acpi | awk '{ print $4 }' | sed s/","//g) CLK=$( date +'%H:%M') # xsetroot -name "$BAT | $CLK" xsetroot -name "$CLK" sleep 1 done | while true; do ~/bin/dwm; done Hello from future Johan, the above also looks super weird. Think these days I just run …

Had the opportunity to try out virtualbox the other day on RHEL. I really liked the part that the rpm that I downloaded was signed and I had to import the signature to be able to install the package! Feels safe. Install did not cause any other problems for me …

Linky to the register "Western Digital is buying Hitachi Global Storage Technologies for $4.25bn in a friendly takeover ..." Hitachi GST has quite a few home-based disk products which do look interesting. Hitachi GST's page is very slow at the moment (2011-03-07 22:06 EET) - it even stopped responding. Maybe …

Just installed Drupal 7 on a Debian Virtual Machine. It's so clean and it just feels very solid. Lots of things you can do in there. Probably a good idea to check out drupal's own description of their software before doing anything serious with it. I liked this description: "Drupal …

Kotimainen Elokuva- Mies vailla menneisyyttä [by Aki Kaurismäki] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mies_vailla_menneisyytt%C3%A4 Black Comedy? We decided to take a peak at it because it was nominated/won an Oscar under 'foreign film'. So it should be good then right? Turns out they of course can be …

Linksies! Planets: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/117984/20110302/kepler-finds-strange-worlds-fastest-planet.htm Imagine a year being only 10 days! I'd be sooo old! Roughly one thousand years old. Maybe I would qualify as a jedi? LHC: http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110228/full/471013a.html Nice comment about the above …

Another thing you will notice if you are used to debian is that RHEL has iptables enabled by default. To alter it you use the 'iptables' command. It is quite complex and there are good guides out there. If you just want to let http and ssh through you can …

You may have seen in my previous post about EyeOS that I tried many things to get time in sync on the virtual OS. It was drifting lots of time and after a few hours it was an hour behind. Google tells me this is quite common but I …

Where to find them? Where are some good second hand shops, new book shops, any tips on buying from the Internet. Number 1: the library. The library system here in Finland is actually quite awesome. You can go to their website and search and reserve books (costs 50c this year …