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Evolution-ary Evolution-ary

Created on 24th June 2006 12:38 PM. Linux
Been using Evolution at work so I can use Linux in an MS environment

FInally got the GAL working correctly. Apparently our ldap server was different to the web frontend server. And all you need to put in the box where it says "Address of the server" is the address of the server. Yeah. Not ldap:// or /exchange. Just the address.

 Easy once you know how.

Back to XGL? Back to XGL?

Created on 21st June 2006 11:56 PM. XGL/AIGLX/Beryl/Compiz
I'm back to trying XGL again. How long will it last?

It seems like the usability features of XGL (no, really) and the eye candy have brought me back to it.

And so far I'm more than happy. Video playback seems to be better than it was before, and I think it might stick. We'll see... 

My Ubuntu woes are over My Ubuntu woes are over

Created on 14th June 2006 02:24 PM. Ubuntu | XGL/AIGLX/Beryl/Compiz
I came pretty close to ditching Ubuntu as my laptop distro of choice. But now it's all roses again.

I'd been having some ongoing problems with Ubuntu since upgrading to Dapper Drake, but the main one was that my wireless no longer seemed to work.

After trawling the forums and filing a number of bugs (one for ndiswrapper and one for bcm43xx, neither of which was working for me), I discovered that I just had to press the "wireless button" on my laptop for it to work. Dammit. I didn't even know it was a button.

 I've also reverted back to vanilla X from XGL because my video/DVD playback was slower, and there were some things I didn't go wild about with XGL:

  • I didn't like some of the features of XGL that I couldn't figure out how to turn off. Specifically the way all non-selected windows fade to grey.
  • Could never get Gkrellm to show in all virtual desktops consistently and in the same place
Other than that, I did like XGL, and once all the bugs are worked out, I can see myself using it again. I'm in no hurry though.

Welcome to the new Django-based Green Leaf Technologies Welcome to the new Django-based Green Leaf Technologies

Created on 13th June 2006 07:41 PM. Django | Python
It's taken me a while to get there, but I've finally migrated to Django.

This has been helped (a lot) by my being able to use Django at work. I've really been able to dig into learning some of the features of this great framework, and it's convinced me (along with Plone's resource intensive-ness for a poor wee server like mine) that I needed to get with it.

So I did.