Server Moved and Screenshots

Dion Moult — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 09:26:24 +0000

Right. I didn’t give a post yesterday because my host was moving servers from America to Australia. So to all the people who were experiencing connectivity issues yesterday that was what the problem was. Things are getting ship shape and soon the site should be accessible to everybody worldwide without any issues. It already works fine for me, but the DNS must propagate around. Not to mention now my site is loading almost instantaneously – it’s truly amazing how speedy the site is for me. I’m loving it

Aside from that, I’ve been trying to debug why KWin with compositing enabled causing all these crashes and makes X go unresponsive (such that I have to force shutdown). So what I’ve learned is how to use the SysRq key (which is a lifesaver) and also how to abstain from the newer NVIDIA drivers. A word of warning for KDE users, do not upgrade to 180.29 or 180.35 nvidia-drivers, it is full of bugs and requires expert pest control services. Thankfully with the SysRq key I won’t cause my filesystem to bork (as people watching me on Twitter found out today at 4:30AM) and with the added hope of being able to just restart X (alt-sysrq-k) things now seem more livable.

On unrelated news, I decided to see if I could copy Vista’s look. I didn’t really make much of an effort (hence why my panel is untouched and I didn’t make a “reflection” image as well as my icon theme not changed) but here’s what I came up with after a while:

I currently run a rather Mac-ish setup, as can be seen here. The theme is Bespin. Tada:

Oh, and just because this is Linux, everything is possible:

I hope giving you pictures might make up for the fact I missed a post I’ll post something with a bit more essence next time. (Click on those to see full size and true awesomness detail)

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Server Moved and Screenshots