Ruminations on the Digital Realm

Two days ago I sat behind my wife’s computer, only to be disgusted by her mouse within seconds. She still had an ancient piece of hardware. Personally I use a marble trackball to prevent serious RSI problems. No my wife needed a decent mouse as well and off I went to the Media Market. The mouse [...]

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After installing Compiz/Xgl I was already flabbergasted. It’s not just the cool screen effects, though they are a lot of fun. It is also the clarity and brightness of the screen fonts. Stunning is the right word.
There were a few problems though. Programs like VMware and VLC got glued to the top menu bar and [...]

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After the X-disaster I was reluctant to fool around with the graphics department. But what is the use of a powerful graphics card ifyou are not going to squeeze everything out of it. First I used Easyubuntu to install the nvidia driver. That appeared simple enough till I noticed the message that the install could [...]

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ln one of my RSS feeds, Tweakers.net, there was a confirmation of the problems with the X update of Ubuntu. Apparently it wasn’t an incompatibility problem with the nVidia driver. Ubuntu seems to have fixed the problem now. Still, for a distribution that has gained a lot of traction for it’s ease of use and [...]

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I tried to do nothing today. No work, no projects, no social obligations. just relaxation and a stack of spiritual food in the form of magazines. I did not completely succeed since I did do some maintenance work on my website. But that was it.
I needed to have this day off. I needed the [...]

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