By Min on Pixiv. All the more reason to me to get off my behind and watch a certain scientific… no wait… Magica show!
Upon asking an anime watching friend I met at uni whether the roles and personalities of the characters match up in this crossover, he responded with "Well kinda, Tsubasa and Mami both have ridiculous boobs". There you have it.
Links shared from del.icio.us today:
Homebrew giving you grief when attemting to perform a brew update?
Error: Failure while executing: git checkout -q master
You're not alone. Fortunately jacknagel's solution fixes the problem.
cd `brew –prefix` git remote add origin https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew.git git fetch origin
git reset --hard origin/master
Allegedly there have been changes with git after 1.7.4.4. Presumably the Homebrew folks will update their default installer, but this works in the meantime.
I got some great feedback from people on my Gnome 3 review post, which in itself was a comment in a way. Is that GTK3+ Inception?
I tried to use GNOME 3 when I was utterly disappointed by Unity in Ubuntu 11.04. And after three days of trying it still felt very wrong to me and too many functions were missing. I ended doing the unthinkable (at least for me) and tried Kubuntu with their latest KDE desktop. I was completely shocked. Everyone was telling me before how bad KDE is and then I was finding out more and more how very wrong they were. After a couple of days of getting used to it and discovering different ways of doing things with KDE I actually find it even better than the good old GNOME 2. Looks like KDE will be a keeper for me.
That’s funny, I had the exact opposite response with KDE4 and Gnome3! I guess that’s one of the strengths of having multiple environments, each to their own :)
Nice review.
Wow, there is a lot of glitches there, and I got it when it hit testing.
Also, I usually don’t do this shameless plug thing here – but I wrote a review too if you want to read it. http://ignorance.kokidokom.net/2011/04/gnome-3-review/
A much better review than mine, and by a guy who also blogs random infocomm stuff laced with a solid dose of anime goodness. Or is it the other way round? Either way, his desktop background rocks.
Links shared from del.icio.us today:
Yay, a K-On movie poster! Judging from the open blazer and blond hair, I’d say Ritsu is #2 and Mugi is #4. Azusa and Mio wear the same black socks so I can’t tell them apart! Why are you looking at me like that?
UPDATE: Just noticed the black ponytail, so Azusa is #3, which therefore makes Mio #1. I think!
I’ll admit I had reservations about Gnome 3 and the new Gnome-Shell, but having used them for 48 hours now I’m pleasantly surprised… despite some serious artefacting issues!
After years of work, the latest iteration of the Gnome desktop environment was unleashed upon the FLOSS world in late April. Like the fateful KDE 4, Gnome 3 brings with it a slew of controversy, most of which surrounds its fundamental rethink of the typical desktop metaphor… something I personally think has been long overdue.
It’s no secret most contemporary desktop environments for *nix have been modelled on Windows. While I could sympathise with their reasons for doing so, Mac OS X demonstrated you don’t need be constrained by start menus and taskbars, and it always felt to me as though they were missing an opportunity to be bold and try something new themselves.
So how did they do at it?
My test machine is my venerable IBM ThinkPad X40 with a freshly installed and updated Arch Linux i686. The Intel integrated graphics are crappy, but they sure made it a cinch to get 3D acceleration working with the open xf86-video-intel drivers.
Gnome 3 is also the default version of Gnome in Arch now, and my hat goes off to the team for making it so easy to install.
# pacmam -S gnome # pacman -S gnome-extra
Like previous Gnome releases, you also need dbus. I went ahead and installed fuse and NetworkManager as well given this was for a laptop I’d be taking to coffee shops and wanting quick WiFi access with.
Having used Gnome 3 for two days at uni and at my favourite coffee shop, I’ve been surprised at just how responsive and fast the system is even on this old machine (no, really!), and how quickly I’ve adapted to the Gnome-Shell way of doing things.
Instead of a messy desktop of icons or a Start Menu, Gnome-Shell puts your application shortcuts and active windows behind a screen you activate by merely throwing your mouse into the top left corner. I forgot what rule of GUI design this adheres to, but its the same philosophy behind Mac OS X’s application menus: instead of having to specifically aim for something, you just throw the mouse against the screen edge and you’re where you want to be. Threshold something, I forget.
When you activate the Gnome-Shell, the screen of icons and active windows takes up the entire screen, which also makes sense to me. The Start Menu on Windows (or KDE) has your complete attention when you’re using it, so why limit its size to a tiny box?
Like Mac OS X’s dock, your favourite applications are located in a favourites panel for easy access, or you can navigate all your applications in categories. Previews of all your active windows are also contained in a tab, much like Mac OS X’s Expose which is vastly superior to Windows’s awkward Alt+Tab and cluttered taskbar.
Unfortunately like Windows, Linux applications put their files all over the place so you can’t merely expose an Applications folder in a file manager and let users launch what they want, like in Mac OS X. This seems to be an acceptable compromise.
What I’m really excited about however is the quick keyboard application launcher. I religiously use Alfred on my Macs (QS before that) and dmenu on my Linux and BSD boxes, so being able to simply type the name of an application I want and hitting enter is so convenient I’m lost when I go to a machine that doesn’t have it!
Unfortunately, while great to use even on this older ThinkPad, there are few glaring problems.
1. For some reason some of the fonts are rendered virtually unintelligible despite installing a ton of FLOSS fonts from pacman before installing xorg.
2. There are persistent white artefacts over much of the UI, specifically corners of windows and icons. If I didn’t know any better, I’d say it was a CSS border-radius rendering error!
3. Finally, the top bar in Gnome 3 is supposed to be black, but in my setup its completely transparent, and many of the notification icons are missing unless I hover over them with my mouse.
I suspect these issues are PEBKAC though; I’ll be enquiring on the Arch forums.
A solid release, and I’m surprised by how much I’m enjoying using it! I go back to Xfce on my FreeBSD tower and even my Macs and they feel like a step backwards. I suspect a few of the detractors might like it if they were to actually give it a try. I haven’t been this pleasantly surprised by a piece of software in a long time!
So you've set up NetworkManager on your Arch Linux laptop to easily use wireless networks, but it doesn't appear in your desktop environment's notification tray, nor do the networks themselves work. You've probably just been dumb like me ;).
First, to made sure it's not NetworkManager itself that's faulty, attempt to run it as root, including the camelCase.
# NetworkManager
If you get a notification that it loaded successfully, chances are you loaded it in the DAEMONS line before dbus in /etc/rc.conf, as I stupidly did! Make sure they're in the right order:
DAEMONS=([..] dbus networkmanager birdisword [..])
Finally, some Arch installations I've used haven't needed this, but sometimes its worth adding dbus-launch to your exec line in ~/.xinitrc, presuming you start X by typing startx because you have as little patience for GDM, SLiM and its ilk as I do. This also has the effect of silencing some permission issues with memory keys.
exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch startxfce4
Thanks to *juzo-kun for Arch OS-Tan ^_^.
Wish I could take credit for the comparison, but Patrick Mueller beat me to it by about four years.
I use NetBeans… or at least will continue to until it gets canned!
Links shared from del.icio.us today:
