E17 a.k.a Enlightenment, a lightweight window manager
Recently I’m trying Enlightenment, a light window manager. I’ve known this app for a long time, but only recently try to install it (I blame Dedi for tempting me 
). I usually use GNOME. It’s virtually the only desktop environment I ever use. KDE isn’t up to my taste, and I rarely use XFCE anymore since my Xubuntu box has been monitor-less for a while.
The installation steps are the same as posted on Dedi’s blog, with some minor changes. I use old repo key because new repo key will give a GPG error. And since I’m using BlankOn Nanggar, I use packages for Jaunty.
- Edit my sources list
- Add following line
- Add repo key
- Update packages and install Enlightenment
- Log out and choose Enlightenment session
$ sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://packages.enlightenment.org/ubuntu jaunty main extras
wget http://packages.enlightenment.org/repo.key.old -O - | sudo apt-key add -
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install e17
Enlightenment with Clearlook theme
You can get additional theme, app and stuff for Enlightenment from http://e17-stuff.org/ and http://exchange.enlightenment.org/ (Thanks Dedi, for the link
)
So, do you want enlightenment? (Hahaha, bad pun, I know )
Note: Ubuntu repository also got Enlightenment packages, but it’s still an e16 version.
Getting Ubuntu .deb packages using apt-web
At home, I’m using Ubuntu 8.04 for my main OS. Unfortunately, it’s not connected to internet. Whenever I need to install anything, I had to download it manually from Ubuntu repository. (Well, I also using BlankOn 5.0 at my workplace, but since BlankOn 5.0 is based on Ubuntu 9.04, I can’t just copy its packages in apt cache and copy them to my Hardy machine.)
Manual download has it own cons. Ubuntu repo website do lists the dependencies for a .deb package, but how do I know what’s the dependencies for the dependencies, or whether some of the dependencies are already installed or not?
This is where apt-web, a web-based .deb package finder application developed by mas Fajran “Iang” Iman Rusadi, came in. It helps me to know which packages I have to download and gives package URL on chosen repository mirrors for any specific release. For instance, if I want to install inkscape on Hardy, apt-web let me know that I only need to download two packages (inkscape & libmagick++10), either from Kambing, Buaya, UGM or other mirrors.
Neat, eh?
To try apt-web, you can visit http://apt.web.dahsy.at
Happy unbirthday!
Oops, I guess today is not my unbirthday. But yesterday is my unbirthday. My 9106th unbirthday, to be exact.
What’s an unbirthday? Why, it’s any day that’s not one birthday, of course. It’s a term first coined in Lewis Carrol‘s novel Through the Looking Glass.
Now, how do we check how many unbirthday has passed? If you’re using Debian/Ubuntu or their derivatives, you can install python2.6-examples package, which include a script to count your unbirthday days. For other distro or OS, please refer to included manual
$ sudo apt-get install python2.6-examples
$ python /usr/share/doc/python2.6/examples/Demo/scripts/unbirthday.py
If you’re interested on the novel, you can download it for free from Project Gutenberg website.
You’re idiot or what, lady?
Spammers just don’t know when to quit. This particular girl has sent me several spams, and this morning I got another one from her in my Gmail inbox.
Just using common sense would let her know that the promotion is fake. Few reasons:
- I don’t think Apple would use spam for their promotion
- We got Apple branch office here at Indonesia?
- Apple officer use other company’s e-mail for official promotion?
But I guess greed make her IQ dropped by few points, eh?
Below is the spam
from Nadya Revalina n4dya.rev4lina@plasa.com
to *list of e-mail adresses here*
cc applecorpjkt@mail2europe.com
date Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 9:58 AM
subject Fw: Berita Gembira
mailed-by plasa.com
signed-by plasa.comhide details Mar 2 (3 days ago)
Rekan2x..
Gak ada salahnya dicoba.. (baca bawah)
Cuma gratis ini..
Ada beberapa temen di kantor yg udah dapet HP iphone-nya lho..Regards,
Nadya Revalina
Adm. Staff
PT. Titan Resources
Jl. Gatot Subroto Kav. 31 Blok C7 no. 11
Jakarta Selatan
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Upgrading WordPress
Today when I logged in into this blog dashboard, there’s a notification to update WP to 2.9. 2 version.
When I installed WP for this blog, I did it manually, not with Fantastico installer. But for this update, I’ll go with WP automatic update. I have to back up some files and database first. The database back up process is done (lurrrvv you, phpMyAdmin), and right now I’m waiting for files back up process to be completed (it’s testing my patience, as it’s so slow).
Wish me luck
