Archive for October, 2006

October Desktop

Tuesday, October 31st, 2006

This has been my desktop for the past month and a bit.

October Desktop

Coke, Mentos and Freetime

Tuesday, October 31st, 2006
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Gaint Chocolate and a Pumpkin Dalek

Monday, October 30th, 2006
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Anybody 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, 2006

Loads of Bushisms, great entertainment when you are rained into your flat. :)

The Terminator & Jesus

Wednesday, October 25th, 2006
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Firefox 2 Released!

Wednesday, October 25th, 2006

Mozilla 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.

Firefox 2

Selling Windows 1.0

Monday, October 23rd, 2006

I am not quite sure what to think of this video, it so damn funny.


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PDA

Saturday, October 21st, 2006

I wrote this on my new PDA!

University Shell

Friday, October 20th, 2006

At 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!