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More "want", still no cure for "too busy"

I want to add a wysiwyg editor to Nailblog2.

I want to add a feed aggregator to Nailblog2 (so I can publish my facebook and twitter spam here too)

I want to make the file-upload thingamagig more usable and mobile friendlier

I want

I want

Want

:'-(

2011-01-05 19:57:49 by Nailbar

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Linux saves the day - finally

So apparently my wife's old laptop is showing its age and the amount of ram is no longer sufficient for running Windows XP (which it came with) without caching furiously. Even when no additional programs except AVG Free (antivirus) are running.

I've been trying to get Linux running on it for some time now but for some reason Debian would never successfully install and Kubuntu gets as far as to the login screen but no further. I tried Slackware command line only too, but the problems seems to be connected to a not-too-well supported graphics card which borks even the command prompt. For instance, the Kubuntu login screen also believed the screen was 1680x1050 rather than 1024x768, or something like that.

Then I tried LXDE.

Now I'm happily writing this from this old laptop running Ubuntu with LXDE and everything is working great. After some googling I got the screen size working by manually specifying it in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, and the KDE login crash was due to hardware acceleration. With that turned off it worked fine, but Plasma still ate up all the memory so as soon as any other program was executed it would start swapping.

lxde_on_old_laptop-101205.png

Ta-daa!

2010-12-05 20:03:30 by Nailbar
Updated 2010-12-05 20:55:18

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Nailblog-2.0.4

Nailblog-2.0.4 released. Read about it in the Nailblog2 blog.

Of course I found a bug in the code just after the release. That's how it always goes.

2010-10-27 21:26:26 by Nailbar

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Auts3D

When I was younger I used to play a small cave flying game called Auts and later a similar one called Wings.

Just last night I closed my eyes and saw before me a 3D version of those games. The same simple idea; Start game, fly around, shoot at enemies. Shooting at cave walls leaves holes in them and you would be able to dig your own caves that way. That's about it.

I would love to play that game.

auts3d.jpg

2010-09-23 11:39:48 by Nailbar
Updated 2010-09-23 12:09:14

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Inception

Oh wow

That was a pretty good movie, IMO.

2010-09-06 08:58:06 by Nailbar

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Trolling with GIMP

So now I may be providing graphics for a game, maybe. Anyhow. First concept pic is up and running:

trollin1.jpg wizzzard1.jpg wyvern1.jpg knight1.jpg

Added more...

2010-09-01 15:48:07 by Nailbar
Updated 2010-09-02 07:38:57

The characters are awesome! as well as your new blog :)
Greetings!

2010-09-10 08:10:46 by mikel

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The Pages module

Here are a few notes for myself on what the Pages module will require in order to be created and finished:

  • Module file (pages.php)
    • Admin tools
      • Overview
      • Create new
      • Edit existing
      • Delete page
      • Goto page
      • Quicklink in Menu module
      • Access control
    • Show page
    • Translation
  • Readme file

2010-08-29 21:05:19 by Nailbar

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Then what?

So what's missing? I'll just write this here so I'll remember it when I have time to do some developing:

  • Links module
  • RSS feed for blog module
  • Plenty of bug fixes
  • Minor features
  • Pages module

After this is done, Nailblog-2 is feature wise on par with Nailblog-1, give or take a detail or two.

2010-08-29 17:31:53 by Nailbar
Updated 2010-08-29 17:35:54

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