My Other BlogPosted by Joeb on July 27, 2008
I’ve just installed the “Stylish” addon for Firefox, so that I could use the Gmail Redesigned CSS sheet for my Gmail.
Personally I prefer it much more than Google’s own offering, as it seems a lot more polished (visually) and it’s a little easier on the eyes, especially in low light scenarios.
I suggest you check it out 
Posted in Internet | Tagged: CSS, Firefox, globex designs, gmail, Google, redesigned, stylish | 2 Comments »
Posted by Joeb on July 23, 2008
I just got a little shock!
I just refreshed the forum main page (as it had been sitting there idle for about 10 minutes while I chatted on IRC and played Xbox :D)
And up comes a little pop-up telling me I have a PM, which didn’t surprise me, I do get them from time to time (honest), and then I read the title: “Interested in being a part of our staff?“
I was incredibly surprised, but honoured, so I said yes. And that is the simple story of how I became a Moderator/Staff Member on UbuntuForums.org 
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Posted by Joeb on July 15, 2008
It’s a massive overhaul of the current dashboard…actually no…it’s a totally new dashboard I’ve had a poke and a prod around various sites, and it does look quite funky (and yes - the Wii style avatar things are true, but they don’t look that bad actually).
I’m really quite looking forward to it, hopefully it won’t be ridiculously slow when it’s finally released (I can think of a certain (read: current) release that can be painfully slow at times…)
I also found a link to what looks like a genuine (if somewhat small) gallery of images for the new dashboard.
ShackNews Gallery: http://www.shacknews.com/screenshots.x?gallery=10254&id=122358
Wired Blog Post: http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/07/pics-xbox-360s.html
Official Xbox.com Announcement: http://www.xbox.com/en-GB/E3-2008/nxe.htm
Posted in Xbox 360 | Tagged: 08, 2008, Dashboard, Fall, New, Overhaul, Update | No Comments »
Posted by Joeb on July 15, 2008
Now this is a surprise for me writing this!
I used to hate emesene, I didn’t like the way it functioned, I hated the constant updating (it’s still a little bit annoying, but at least the updates aren’t even half as slow as a certain other OS’s updates (read: Windows <All Versions> ;))) and I just generally preferred aMsn, maybe I preferred that slightly because I compiled it from source, whereas emesene was a simple “sudo apt-get install emesene” - who knows (or cares).
But I’m now using it, and I’m just in the middle of editing my .conkyrc file (any excuse to use Vim…) And I’ve got another couple of posts in the works which should appear in the next day or so.
Good to be back! 
Posted in Linux | Tagged: Windows, Conky, Emesene, WLM, MSN, aMsn, apt, compile, source, vim | No Comments »
Posted by Joeb on July 12, 2008
I’ve just had a look over at TalkToshiba (I’m wondering if they have any small/portable notebooks for a trial…hint hint…) and I notice that my blog is listed there on their “sidebar” - admittedly it is at the bottom, but still, it’s nice to have some publicity, especially from there
Anyway, if any of you guys from TT are reading this, let me know if you have some small/portable laptops for a trial (15″ or less ;))
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Posted by Joeb on July 3, 2008
Yes that’s right - I had a fiddle with the power settings on my Ubuntu installation earlier
I’m pleased to say that suspend works great with my laptop Which I’m sure will come in useful while moving between lectures at Uni when I go back.
Not much else to say really, I’m just glad it works! Holiday next week, so no posts for around 2 weeks
Posted in Linux, Ubuntu | Tagged: 8.04, Hardy, Heron, laptop, Holiday, Suspend | No Comments »
