Some work done.....

Hey... I am back as I said, with a customized dialog box. The Windows shutdown box. Check it out...

Aditya Shevade

Ready for some work now.......

Finally as I said, my laptop is back and I have installed Windows XP on it. (You know, some of the proprietory software that I use forces me to use Windows, not to forget Visual Basic which I am planning on learning.....) and my most favourite game, Railroad Tycon II Gold Edition... I tried using is in Linux through wine.... it does not support my hardware....

So, I am thinking.... What am I going to do with this OS other than this stuff? I don't think anything once I install Debian. So, I am going to play with some files using Resource Hacker and then make my system just the way I want it to be.

So I am going to start the work right now and change some things... Will be back with a post in an hour or so. (Actually it does not take an hour but I am too lazy to post it all...)

Aditya Shevade

HP really sucks.... But their service is good....

This is getting riddiculous.... I finnaly got my laptop back from HP, but this is bad. Now my laptop has had.....

3 DVD drive replacements.
3 Hard Drive replacements.
1 Mother Board replacement.
1 Bluetooth dongle replacement.

And god knows what esle till the end of the warranty period (which is about 19 more months). So right now, all the tuning and tweaking is under progress.....

Aditya Shevade

Another problem with my laptop.......

Shit man. I am sick and tired of this now. This time it is again the DVD drive that is out of order. I wasted 8 sony DVD+Rs with it. Sick. I tried writing the DVDs from 5 differant apps on 3 different OSs. All failed.

So now, the laptop is in HPs service centre. And this old PC of mine is not much of a help either. 500MHz, 96MB RAM. It sucks also. And the keyboard is ancient. (7 years old). The keys are hard and they stick. (Not sick. I don't use the same word more than required :-)).

So, I am not posting much right now, though there is a lot to write. I will just skip it for now, and maybe continue when I gewt my laptop back. It took me 8 minutes to write this, where in I would have done the same in 3 minutes.

Aditya Shevade

My Linux T-Shirt

I was waiting for this thing for a long time. And finally I had some time to find an image or two and some lines. And I used the online designer from T-Shirt Studio to create a T-Shirt based on Linux. I think it's pretty good. Share your thoughts please.

All suggestions, critisisms and ideas are welcome.

Design:-






 

Aditya Shevade

The output of a very busy week.... I get to do anchoring....

This has been again a very busy with studies in the college. Or I should rather say that I had been busy attending the college, in a false hope that I might get some time off, in which I might be able to do something good. But alas, I never had that kind of liberty.

First there was this assignment that was given to us. And as I was one of the only handful students who were able to understand what the teacher had taught, it was upon me to finish it and then pass it on in order to make sure that everyone finishes their assignment in time. I did that, spent an hour solving all the problems (I hope that I solved them correctly). And the next day, everyone copied the assignment from my notebook. I don't have any complaints, but at least they should have shown some common sense while copying them down. I saw 3-4 notebooks which contained the exact same matter as mine. I mean, even the way that I draw circuit diagrams was copied....

I was, not angry, but frustrated by them. But I kept my nerve. There have been many things going on and around my life that I am not getting bothered by such little things anymore. Then, there was a meeting to form some committees for the arrangement of the freshers welcome party. And I was absent for that meeting cause I was over worked that day and even the previous, due to the assignment. So I skipped it only to find out later that day, that I was included in the committee of the anchors. So, now I have to do anchoring with some girl in my class (I dunno whom yet), and that too with 5 more pairs. And the total time for which we all (the 12 people) will be on the stage is around 30 minutes. I mean that sucks, 30 minutes and 12 people? But I think it's the policy of all colleges, that everyone should get a chance in anything they (college) do.

Then, the next day, during the next meeting, I was watching them for 30 minutes while they were debating on the menu for the party. I mean, why the hell even bother to form the committees, if everyone has a say in every decision? Me and 3-4 other, I will call, sensible students, sat it out. All the other were fighting on the menu.

And even today, no one turned up with the program. I mean, how are we supposed to write the script without that? No one (well, the most of them) wants to do any work. They just turn up and pass time and give us headache.

In short, I am not at all looking at anything but am focusing on the work that has been given to me. I neither have any interest in other things nor am I responsible for any work others do not finish in time. I have learned the lesson the hard way, that you are not supposed to take all the responsibilities on yourself. Now, I play the game for the sake of that game itself......

Aditya Shevade

Few more changes to my desktop....

It's been hard on me.... (there there now.... I mean very hard for me...;-)) to know that those mind blowing 3D effects and the compiz manager will not work on my hardware.....

So, since then, I had been wondering.... How to make my desktop look great and yet not use any 3D effects and still make it look as good as it can.

And I found the solution. As I have already provided one screenshot with gDesklets, you know what it is. But, then, I did not have the time to fully explore it. And now, I have come up with this....


The procedure to accomplish the act :-

1). My OS :- OpenSUSE 10.2
2). Desktop :- Gnome.

3). First, I shifted the default panel to top of the screen. Then, created new panel and filled it with icons and set it at the bottom.

4). Then I downloaded OS-X icon set and 'tish' theme from metacity from http://gnome-look.org and used them.

5). Next was, I removed all the icons from the desktop. The home, trash and volume were removed using G-Conf editor. Go to apps, nautilus and desktop and un-check appropriate boxes.

6). Then I installed gDesklets. And downloaded some desklets from http://gdesklets.zencomputer.ca/ and placed them on the desktop. The photo frame was downloaded from http://gnome-look.org . The apple icon in the top panel was downloaded from google images. And the background, I created in Gimp.

7). The wallpaper is from the website of Lauri at http://www.taimila.com/ubuntuosx.php .

Thats pretty much it.

Aditya Shevade