Thoughts on KDE 4.4
KDE 4.4 released! It makes a few good improvements, but still has a bit of way to go.
Making Archlinux’s pacman go faster
After a while pacman-operations on my computer started getting really slow. To optimize the database and make pacman go quick again, there’s the aptly named “pacman-optimize” which will try to put all the small files in one physical place on your harddrive. For me on ext3 it made a world of difference.
Also, to remove old [...]
Strange kernel panics
I don’t remember when it started, but every now and then when I got back at the computer after leaving it on for several hours, the keyboard-leds would blink and the computer would not respond to anything – in other words a kernel panic. The problem was nothing got written to any logfiles, so debugging [...]
Making /tmp your own
When I wrote about keeping /tmp contents survive reboots, I really wanted to make *my* stuff survive reboots. TMPDIR to the rescue – adding “export TMPDIR=~/tmp” to the envfile gives me a private tmp dir, and programs like okular with temporary documents will now be able to open that tmp-doc after a reboot.
Wierd errors when running Nagios3
While setting up Nagios3 I got this error: (Return code of 127 is out of bounds – plugin may be missing). I couldn’t understand what it was because I could run check_nrpe manually from the CLI and other plugins (link check_ping) worked fine. After a lot of looking around it turns out (atleast in Gentoo) [...]
Unmerging several packages using wildcards
Easy as pie (once you know it):
cd /var/db/pkg/; emerge -Ca */*PACKAGE*
Keeping /tmp contents between boots on Arch
Although dependancy on /tmp is a bad idea, I still want to be able to recover things like OpenOffice and Okular files between boots. You could probably set up where these programs do temporary storage, but this is quicker; open up /etc/rc.inittab anddelete the line “/bin/rm -rf /tmp/* …”.
This works, however old stuff is now [...]
How to sync Nokia N73 perfectly with Linux/KDE
Get a new phone.
Hopefully Nokias recent opensource-efforts will start to mean working phones on linux.
Migrating from KDE3.5 to KDE4.2
First, it is possible to just copy your old .kde dir to .kde4. Some things didn’t work for me and anyway it’s a good opportunity to do some housecleaning, so I decided to try and import data instead (and keep the old .kde3 dir in case I need it later).
Konqueror: import bookmarks from 4.2 works [...]
KDE 4.2 released!
When Linus jumps ship and switches to gnome, I start using it. The first version that is usable by normal people just got released. For a good review of the new things I recommend KDE 4.2 Review From Inside Out. Part 1 and Part 2. And here’s a good overview of the new desktop effects. [...]