tuxxman's blog

2005-09-11T19:22:00.000-07:00

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

shell scripts

2005-08-11T12:35:00.000-07:00

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

2005-07-29T22:19:00.000-07:00

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

2005-07-23T20:05:00.000-07:00

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

2005-07-23T18:00:00.000-07:00

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

2005-07-22T17:03:00.000-07:00

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

2005-07-11T14:53:00.000-07:00

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

2005-07-07T15:13:00.000-07:00

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

2005-07-07T07:11:00.000-07:00

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

my setup

2005-07-06T20:30:00.000-07:00

here it is
this is my setup in my basement...
pretty cool i guess... im extremely bored

screenshots:
blue
black
red
green
updated blue with gtk theme <- that looks the best
updated xfce black with gtk themes
^^ but w/o clutter
themes:
XMMS:
zemanova
blueheart
GTK:
blueheart
Gkrellm:
direct link to download blueheart
Fluxbox:
bluedream
GDM:
anti-windows

my computers

2005-07-06T19:17:00.000-07:00

my computers (functional):

Custom made:
AMD 64 2800+
120GB SATA hdd
6GB IDE hdd
52xRW54xRead Lite-on cdrw - dvd read combo drive
1.5GB PC3200 RAM
GeForce 6600GT and a 23" CRT monitor
windows XP pro for gaming
Debian Sarge 3.1 ia64 for everything else

Dell 2400
2.3ghz P4
40GB IDE drive
48xCDRW drive
52x cd+dvdROM drive
512+256 PC2700 RAM
FX5200 with dual vga ports
2x 19" CRT monitors
Slackware 10.1 i586 with an updated 2.6.11 kernel

Apple Powerbook G4 Titanium lappie
500mhz ppc proc
256+128mb RAM
20GB IDE
32x CD-R
15" LCD monitor
Debian Sarge 3 ppc

Dell somthing-or-other
600mhz P3
10GB IDE
32mb nvidia tnt agp card
512mb ram
some cdr drive kinda fast... mabe 32x
17" monitor
FreeBSD with some room for gentoo 2005...sooner-or-later