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Category: Computing

  • Obamenu v2.0 – Making openbox more useable

    It’s been a long time since I posted anything computer related on this blog. For example, this blog still thinks that I’m writing an IRC client in Java (I’m not, I’ve been building one in python for a few years now). However, this post is about Openbox, part of of my long-standing hunt for a…

  • Kindle Fire on Linux

    This is just a quick note to say that Linux (or at least, Linux Mint 15, after a recent update), has just made Kindle Fire HD’s plug-and-play. Huzzah. That is all. ~BX

  • Better Late Then Never, ALPHA 0.2 Code uploaded

    https://sourceforge.net/projects/bltn/ I have finally uploaded something to sourceforge. After years of being overly-protective about my code, I’ve finally written something that I want to share. Not because my code is any good, or indeed, robust, or any of those things that code should be, but rather that I really want a task manager that uses…

  • Survival Craft : Tips and Tricks

    What Is Survival Craft? To say that Survival Craft is a Minecraft clone is close, but not entirely accurate. Klauus, the creator, felt that Minecraft wasn’t simply deadly enough. Survival Craft, then, is a game that looks, and in some way feels, like Minecraft (but with better graphics), and allows you to do some of…

  • Restarting Demon threads in Python

    Having just spent over an hour trying to find how to do this, here is my contribution to the problem. Say that you have a thread that you have called start() on, and your run() method terminates with an exception, or quite naturally (for example, your listening to a socket, and it gets disconnected). Your…

  • SimCity 3000 and PlayOnLinux (Wine)

    Having just spent some time trying to get some old games working under linux, I managed to get SimCity 3000 working with PlayOnLinux. It will install using the installer provided quite happily, and then tell you that it won’t run because of security protections. If you change the Wine version to 1.5.18, it runs quite…

  • Playstation Update 3.61 : First Adopters

    Sony have finally released the long-awaited updated as part of their roll out of the restoration of the Playstation Network (PSN). The only trouble is that demand seems to be outstripping their servers. It appears the best way to update the PS3 at this moment is to download the firmware onto a USB stick, and…

  • Openbox on Fedora Configuration How-To

    To continue the search for a pretty desktop, I have recently spent some time looking for themes for those lesser-used desktops that actually require some configuration from the user. My first thought was to try FVWM2, having seen the pretty screen shots from FVWM-Crystal. Unfortunately, it doesn’t come natively on Fedora, and having tried a…

  • Batman On an Elephant. That is All.

  • Installing Fedora 11 vs. Installing Windows 7 RC.

    I decided, in some fit of madness to upgrade to Fedora 11, and to upgrade to Windows 7 RC on my dual-boot laptop. I thought that I would take advantage of the unaccustomed Generosity of Microsoft with their free version (that is, it’s free untill July next year). First, let’s start with the upgrade. Upgrade:…

  • Getting LaTex word count which ignores footnotes

    I’ve been wrighting my essays in LaTex every since I discovered that it made footnoting and other various items easier. The one thing it made harder, however, was doing the word-count. Wanting to know how far through my 5000 word essay I was, I started trying to work out how. Lots of people say things…

  • Free Web Hosting

    Now, it’s not often I put up posts that are likely to shoot myself in the foot. I’ve been toying with online services for a very long time, in the vaugue hope that I would make some money. Ideally enough to be able to actually afford the insane plan of going off to join the…

  • Installing a new desktop on Ubuntu

    If you happen to like windows, then you will love Ubuntu. This distribution seems to adore making things overly complicated for no real reason, and obfuscating the way things should work. Perhaps it is the way of the future for those that don’t care how their system works. I do. I’m not a big fan…

  • Upgrading Fedora 8 to Fedora 9 (beta)

    This article is based on an article by brandon hutchinson I noticed with some glee (as most geeks do) that Fedora 9 was on the way in 17 days. Could I wait 17 days? I needed to remove the Ubuntu install on my machine, and replace it with one that at least gave me a…

  • RHCE – Certification results

    Or, to put it another way. I passed. I got 100% on this exam. Surprised the heck outta me.