gDesklets.... My First Try......

I was bored (again as usual), and while Stumbling through Stumble Upon, I found some screenshots with gDesklets running on the desktops. I liked the idea and decided to give it a try.

Then I searched for gDesklets in YaST in my OpenSUSE 10.2 distribution. And installed it. Then, I googled for some desklets and found a site with Unofficial gDesklets, Desklet repository.

I searched for some desklets and downloaded them and I am currently using them. And I like it a lot. It’s like the Mac widgets which now is copied by Windows VISTA (Anyone startled out there?).

My advice, one should give this a try and use it at least once. I think you won’t regret it…

Aditya Shevade

Aaahhhhh......

Finally, the college has started and, our results are declared. But we don't have the marks yet. Only thing displayed is the numbers of the students who have cleared all papers.... Needless to say that I am in that list.

Been busy lately due to the college.... Got some nice subjects this semester. My favorite Digital systems....

Gotta run again.... No time.... This is too much considering that it's just the first week....

Aditya Shevade

Results..... (not declared yet).....

I was just surfing through the university site today, and saw that the results for the second end semester exams for first year engineering are out. With my heart pumping very fast, I opened the page.

And there it was, the numbers of the students who had passed the examination those who had received atkt (allowed to keep term (or turn)). And then, at the bottom of the page was a list of numbers of those candidates, whose result was (is) to be declared later. And guess what... my number was there in that list. And not only mine, but the numbers of all the students from my college.

Now, I have a very good (and possibly very correct), idea why that might be happening. But you know that if I spill the truth out here and someone reads (who does not wish my welfare), then I might get into trouble. So I am not going into the details out here.

But the problems do not end here. I was going to buy a keyboard, a musical keyboard, YAMAHA's PSR-E403. And when my mom heard about the results, then she said that she will buy it only once the results are out. And if, my interpretations are correct, then I don't think that our results will be out anytime soon. So I am in more dismay. First it was bad, then it went on to become worse and now, it's the worst since... well since the start of this month ;-)

So, it's bad. And I hate that. Now, all I can do is to wait for the results to come out, and then I will finally get that keyboard. As far as the results are concerned, there are very good chances of, getting the marks I expect.

Aditya Shevade

I got a 3rd PC (Nothing to get excited about though)...

I just got my 3rd PC. Bu the fact is that, it's a Pentium-S, 75 MHz, 8 MB RAM. Moreover, it's HDD is just 850 MBs and now that PC cannot detect that HDD. It asks for a Floppy to boot.

I do not have a Floppy drive on my other 2 PCs with net connection. One is a laptop, so, I cannot connect the FDD of this new (?) PC to that. And the other Desktop does not have any BUSes for the connection.

In short, I am confused about what my options are with this PC.

Gotta go.

Aditya Shevade

3D effects sweet..... But......

I was very very excited when I first enabled those effects that I have described in the post below.... But as good as it gets when all correct, it's not at all good if it goes wrong....

I ignored the hardware requirements for the graphics card, required for either beryl or compiz. I just installed them on my laptop with 915GM chipset having on-board graphics. And, after I finished the last post and then woke up next morning to switch on the laptop, I found out that I was locked outside all WMs (Windows Managers). I tried Gnome, KDE, icewm, xfce, but all crashed. So, I disabled XGL from command line (thank god I payed attention to people telling me to learn the shell....). Then I logged in.

The system was behaving strange. All apps kept crashing. And windows kept switching by themselves. I didn't know what to do. I spent all the time since then trying to sort things out. But alas, I had to reinstall OpenSuSE 10.2 again on my laptop. And now the system is back in it's formal glory (whatever it had).

So, good as they are, those graphics. Unless you have a graphics card or a chipset that is supported by them, don't go for them. I thought, at most they won't run as my chipset is not supported.... but it ran, and crashed the whole system.....

Aditya Shevade

XGL + Compiz..... and the result is..... Fantastic.....

I am bored. I mean that is the only this that I do these days.... Be bored and drive other around you nuts....


I had gone to a friends' place today and saw his laptop with Ubuntu installed. He also had beryl and XGL enabled on it. It looked great (for more info visit this). So I had been wondering, if my laptop will be able to get the effects ready with OpenSuSE 10.2. And the answer was complicated.



I first installed beryl. Then enabled the 3D acceleration for the on-board graphics card. And then restarted X as usual. But it crashed. I tried again, but it again crashed. So I disabled XGL from command line and started X. It was alright. Then I reinstalled beryl... no change, then I removed it and went on with XGL-Compiz combo. And it's been working flawlessly (almost) since then. I also installed GL Desktop from OpenSuSE's XGL repository. It's a good tool to configure XGL-Compiz.



I have provided some screenshots of what you can achieve with this. If you want to see what beryl can do, then I suggest you take a look at this. For me, compiz rocks.




Another Screenshot for you......

I am back...... So is the flood.....

I am well and back from Pune.... It was a fun trip. Bought 8 books in the end. All 3 from the Bartemius trilogy, The Godfather, Couple of Tolkien books, one on the world before Tolkien and Professional C++ by Wrox.... In short, I had gone to Pune to spend a lot of my parents' money :-)

And, when I was in the train, I called my mom and she told me that it's raining.... That was 5pm and now, I am writing this post at 9:35pm, and it's still raining out there... It's close to flood already (well not really). There are a lot of trees, fallen on the roads, the railroad from Miraj to Sangli (a Junction and my home city (or town?)), is under water and all the rail traffic is jammed....And I had plans to play football tomorrow... :-(

Huh.... I am really tired right now and I cannot write much right now, cause there are 35 emails waiting for me in the mailbox. Plus many other things to take care of.... Catch you later (all those who read regularly... ;-)).

Aditya Shevade