October Desktop
Tuesday, October 31st, 2006This has been my desktop for the past month and a bit.
Archive for October, 2006
Coke, Mentos and Freetime
Tuesday, October 31st, 2006Gaint Chocolate and a Pumpkin Dalek
Monday, October 30th, 2006Anybody got £40 to spare? I want to make one of these 46000 calories monster. 
Bambi
Thursday, October 26th, 2006(22:51:15) Me: I here the new ubuntu code name?
(22:52:29) Martin: Haven’t heard.
(22:52:33) Martin: Do you know it?
(22:52:41) Martin: I don’t care for the silly names.
(22:52:51) Martin: I refer to the version numbers now.
(22:52:54) Me: feisty fawn
(22:53:00) Martin: What shit!
(22:53:04) Me: indeed
(22:53:13) Martin: Why not just call it Bambi
Bushisms
Wednesday, October 25th, 2006Loads of Bushisms, great entertainment when you are rained into your flat.
The Terminator & Jesus
Wednesday, October 25th, 2006Firefox 2 Released!
Wednesday, October 25th, 2006Mozilla Firefox 2 has officially been released by the Mozilla Corporation go get it quick! The IE7 team were kind enough to dispatch a cake to the Mozilla guys.
Selling Windows 1.0
Monday, October 23rd, 2006I am not quite sure what to think of this video, it so damn funny.
PDA
Saturday, October 21st, 2006I wrote this on my new PDA!
University Shell
Friday, October 20th, 2006At University my login shell is set to tcsh which I do not like, I prefer bash. I was unable to use chsh because the network uses NIS, and the NIS command ypchsh kept throwing errors. I searched the internet for a solution, not have much success, eventually I stumbled here which guided a bit further.
My final solution is to edit .cshrc to contain:
# Only run bash if the shell is interactive, otherwise X breaks! if ( $?prompt ) exec /bin/bash --login
Now when I login or open a virtual terminal I am greeted by an authenticated bash shell which when closed (ie logout) also closes tcsh. I am very happy
One thing would be nice is to only apply the --login to true login shells but thats not much of an issue.
Edit (25/10/2006): I had to make a small change after I realised I was unable to login locally to X!
