I got a working Internet now. Real cable and all. The wireless broadband wasn't for me and it was an experience I'd rather forget.

So anyhow, the first thing I did, of course, was update to the latest Kubuntu and Lubuntu versions. And with fresh new desktops (I always install from scratch) I once again had the urge to make new wallpapers.

So this is what came out of it.

Finally had time to organize the picture folder. Found a fresh one on my girl. Have to share it with the world.

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

:'-(

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.

Ta-daa!

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.

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.

Oh wow

That was a pretty good movie, IMO.

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

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