i am now registered linux user #398587
http://counter.li.org/

shell scripts

my backup script
i suggest you do not run that...i dont think it will do you any harm because you do not have all the config files it needs....but still.

wm switch

i got kinda bored with fluxbox, so i decided to try out some new wm's
i looked up what ones there were to choose from...quite a lot.
i found xfce, looked cool enough
i added
deb http://www.os-works.com/debian testing main
deb-src http://www.os-works.com/debian testing main
to /etc/apt/sources.list
then
apt-get update
then
apt-get install -t testing xfld-desktop
(which installs everything xfce uses)
i then logged out of fluxbox and logged into xfce
the default theme sucks, but u can easily change it with the setup utility in the User Interface section
i suggest, if one wants, you use the gtk2 theme Tenebrific, it looks
awesome.
conclusion: xfce is gnome w/o the bullshit
xfce is the only wm other than fluxbox i have tried, i will try more soon and add them here

how my linux life began, and what i want to do with my linux life

it all started when i went over to my friend's house for a gaming battle, and i asked my friend's dad to open an internet connection for me.
i went up in his office and saw that he had multiple monitors hooked up to a dell, which was ssh'ed into his music box that he records to.
i was utterly amazed.
he told me that it was linux.
i quickly downloaded debian, fedora core, and mandrake, and tried them all. i liked debian the most (and i still do).
i have been steadily progressing (slowly) to get rid of windows completely. i now only use it to use my webcam (which i cannot get to work on 'nix) for people on AIM. (my windows partition is now 5GB, on a 40GB hdd)
i have now taken one more step and i am learning programming languages.
i think as a career i will do somthing with developing Unix, i really want to get into that kind of stuff...

IRC bot

hehe i decided to make an IRC bot
i registered #tuxxman to ChanServ
apt-get install supybot
#chmod 777 .logs
$supybots-wizard
download this
and put them in /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/supybot
get the bot in #tuxxman
did !config supybot.reply.error.inPrivate True to make errors not annoying.
!load to load new plugins

gtk theme switching

i saw online that there were gtk themes, themes that change most program's appearance...
to change a theme:
download a theme here
su
mv foo.tar.gz /usr/share/themes
tar -xvzf foo.tar.fz
su user
cd
edit .gtk-2.0 like this:
# -- THEME AUTO-WRITTEN DO NOT EDIT
include "/usr/share/themes/Tenebrific/gtk-2.0/gtkrc"

include "/home/tuxxman/.gtkrc.mine"

# -- THEME AUTO-WRITTEN DO NOT EDIT

music+xmms issues

hmmm.....
currently on ubuntu... w/e i installed it on my SATA drive on my custom computer cuz i was bored....lol

i installed everything (xmms, fluxbox ect.) just fine, added /dev/sda1 to my fstab so i could listen to music that was on my winblows partition, and i noted that it worked as root, but now user.
/dev/sda1 /mnt/windows ntfs user,noauto, 0 0
was the origional line i added, looks to be ok....
i asked around on #linuxforums about it and got this as my final line
/dev/sda1 /mnt/windows ntfs user,noauto,umask=0000 0 0
works fine now...
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note: xmms is awesome, but it lacks equalizer presets,
you can find them here

wine and winetools

ive been almost getting windows programs and games to work for a while
so i decided to go full speed into wine, a free windows emulation program found here. Because i have a severe case of lazyness when it comes to manual configuration of files, i have installed winetools, found here.
i downloaded and installed the .tgz package, then went to the winetools and downloaded winetools from source. it wasnt that hard to install but make SURE you rtfm (read the ffffing manual).

ran winetools as user (wont work otherwise) and pretty much followed that.
make sure to install IE (plah) and the such...

....went fine until i tried to install IE...
install locks up and dies at 46%... terminal says it cannot create directory //home//tuxxman//Desktop...

Config Files

This post is pretty much links to my config files, styles, backgrounds blahblahblah.... so if i ever get screwed for some reason, they'll be here...
Dell 2400

G4 Titanium

fluxbox