Qute theme (Firefox)

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Update: Just received a fixed version of it (cheers to John Conde). Awesome! Now it’s Firefox 1.0 with Qute 2.1.3 for me :-)

You can say that if you find something good you usually stick with it and that’s just what I would have love to do after I updated all my clients to Firefox 1.0, but the bad thing is: I can’t!

I have been using the Qute theme ever since I started to use firefox (firebird) and now I’m waiting and waiting, as I thought the theme would be ported to 1.0 right away – but obviously I was wrong: Arvid Axelsson says it won’t be ready until the end of november. Ok, ok that isn’t a long time anymore as it’s already November 15th today, but you know how it is when you’re wanting something – it’d better be here now ;-)

Blog advertising?

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After reading about it here I really started thinking:

  • 1. Do I need advertising?
  • 2. What are the benefits of it?
  • 3. Would anyone be even interested in advertising on my blog?
  • 4. How much is in it for me?
  • 5. What sort of factors are appealing to a possible advertiser?

1.: Well, not really. But if the ad isn’t that huge it could easily be placed in the right hand menu (see the two examples “your ad here” I placed at the top and at the bottom of the right hand menu) – and who would complain about some extra cash to at least cover hosting and maybe something extra?

2.: Obviously money…anything else?!

3. + 4. : Well, I guess I’m going to find out as soon as I contacted Jeremy

5.: That is one thing I don’t know either (yet). I guess it’s the standard stuff, number of visitors, number of impressions, PR, etc

Now I’ll go ahead and contact Jeremy…I’ll keep you updated :-)

Third pc up and running…

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…not as I expected though. As mentioned here I wanted to do a nice new and clean install of Gentoo linux. So I got myself the livecd (2004.2) and started to install away. I gotta say the installation “manual” is really good and if you take the time to follow it through it will make it easy for you, even if you don’t have much (or any) experience with linux installation [nontheless it might not be the ideal distribution for complete newbies, but that’s another story].

So I got the system installed and all (basic system without X etc), but when I tried to install X and a desktop manager (KDE) the system kept freezing during the build process. I tried it over and over with all sorts of settings. It would build and build and build (as it’s an Athlon 1100MHz it’s quite clear that extreme compilation like this will take some time) and just freeze somewhere in the middle or near the end of completion. So now I was reall fed up and thought: There are two possibilities now, either try and try and try again or give up altogether. I chose to go with the later as I had already spend some good two days in total and had nothing on my hands [I was slowly starting to think that the pc might have a hardware problem, but memory tests and all came up with nothing].

So I downloaded Suse 9.1 personal yesterday (go ahead and call me cheap ;-) ) and ran the installation – one things for sure: the setup process is at least as good as the windows setup, it let’s you configure everything using their “YAST” install-tool. And after a little under one hour the system was up and running. Now I’m just downloading system updates and new nvidia drivers and I’m set – finally.

Winter time?

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I can’t believe it. Just left a building in Marbach after a marathon meeting concerning WikiFUN.de and to my surprise my car was covered in snow!
Hello?! It’s early November! Hopefully it will take a while until the next snow is falling – nontheless I need to get my winter tires for my car ready :-(

KSV Besigheim 1-2 FC Marbach II

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Oooh yeah! Now that was a game.

We took the lead 1-0 after a nice effort by one of our strikers. After that we had numerous chances to go ahead even higher, but we blew them all. Then we had a penalty and the chance to make it 2-0 (and eventually seal the victory), but we blew that as well. In return KSV Besigheim took their one chance and leveled 1-1. With 22 minutes to good it took us some minutes to get our game back together and after missing another two to three great chances our efforts were rewarded with a second penalty – which we were able to capitilise on: 1-2!!! :-)

We were able to hold on to that missing some other chances to make the score even clearer. After this good effort we are now still on top of the league (23pts) with a four point lead over both KSV Besigheim and Dersim Ludwigsburg (with the game Dersim Ludwigsburg – KSV Besigheim still in the balance – it had to be postponed after the referee forgot to show up last week). Now everything is in our own hands with three games left until the winter break. We don’t have another game for the next two weeks so we’ve got enough time to relax a little and prepare for the next match which will be against TSV Ludwigsburg on November 28th.

Time to spend…

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…some more cash. After acquiring my brand new samsung hdd I just came across an offer I couldn’t turn down:

Amazon.de is offering the lovely LG 1716S 17″ flatscreen monitor for as little as 249 € (~318$) – of course with free shipping.

So I guess I could call this week “renew and recycle”-week, because as you might have already guessed: my “old” lcd-monitor (15,1″ Fujitsu Siemens) will make it’s new home infront of my third pc (install currently in progress).

Reinstall

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Update: 3:34am and the system is up and running :-)
A little bit of this and a little bit of that still missing (e.g. ftp client, ssh client, etc), but besides that all up and running again. Took the chance to switch from Outlook Express to Thunderbird. So now all my web-applications are NON-MS (Browser: Firefox, Email: Thunderbird), yay!

On another note:

  • it’s really relaxing to have a root partition with 117GB of free space, too.
  • it’s really annoying to see how SP2 is slowing down my connection…need to find a fix for the connection limit problem soon

The Linux experiment with my third pc was a bugger so far. Tried to run the Gentoo Live CD – wouldn’t boot. Tried to burn it again – wouldn’t boot. Really weird maybe I’m missing something. Just started the download again (this time the bigger live-cd image). Let’s see what that will bring up. Nontheless it’s time for some sleep now – then I’ll get to it later today with a newly downloaded image and a relaxed mood. I guess it wasn’t a good idea to start a “linux project” in the middle of the night anyway ;-)

As I already said here it’s about time to clean up and do a reinstall on my primary workstation. After the new hdd arrived it’s time to get everything backed up (check) and start out fresh. Last dvd’s are in the toaster, so it’s almost time for me to start the reinstall – okay, I need to install the new hdd first, but that’s going to be an easy task with my case (no screws anywhere to be found ;-) ). So don’t expect to here anything from me for the next couple of hours (I’ve still got net access via my second pc and my laptop, but I guess I’ll do a parallel install [primary workstation: win xp reinstall; third pc: linux install] – so I guess I will have enough parallel tasking on my hands)…