When I drop close to $400.00 on a “mobile” digital media player I expect it to last a long time. Two years just ain’t enough. Well, that is just what happened. Just about two years after my purchase of the iPod the thing just crapped out on me. I really considered not going with the [...]
Ever since I purchased my Garmin StreetPilot I have been built an obsession for all that is GPS. I even contemplated buying a Satellite phone , one can pick one up in eBay for a reasonable amount as well as pre-paid cards. Why? Just for those times when you are hiking in the middle of [...]
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Today I decided to look into using a minimal desktop manager and only start my VisualWorks application. I therefore changed my $HOME/.vnc/xstartup to look like:
!/bin/sh
# Uncomment the following two lines for normal desktop:#unset SESSION_MANAGER#exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc [ -x /etc/vnc/xstartup ] && exec /etc/vnc/xstartup[ -r $HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb $HOME/.Xresourcessetroot -solid grey/home/visualworks/scripts/startVWVirgin7_3_1.sh [...]
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Lately I have been struggling with configuring TightVNC both at work and at home. TightVNC is a spin on VNC (Virtual Network Computing). Think of remote desktops , terminal services etc. The scope included making things work with VisualWorks and making things work in both Linux and Windows. After some pain I [...]
They say that boys like toys and I am no exception. There are two toys that I still find myself talking and smiling about. Those are my Alienware Area 51 notebook and VmWare a virtual computing environment.
I was first turned on to Alienware notebooks by Dave Anderson of Smalltalk MT. Dave in into “desktop [...]