Openbox on BlankOn Pattimura
I quite like Openbox. It’s lightweight, simple and sleek. I like it even more than LXDE or XFCE.
Openbox on its default setting isn’t very convenience though. I’ve got used to GNOME a little bit too much, I want some of its provided functionalities are present on my Openbox setup too. Read more
Building a planetplanet aggregator website
You can see my planetplanet website at http://gabek.ordinarylad.com. It’s a mix of English and Indonesian contents right now. In the future, it might aggregates content in Bangkanese too 
And some things I learned when I installed planetplanet on shared hosting.
- The basic template is the recommended starting point for tinkering with how the planet will looks like. The fancy template can be confusing for beginners.
- WordPress RSS2 feed can be frustrating to work with. If you want to aggregate WordPress blogs, make sure to use the Atom feed (i.e.
example.wordpress.com/feed/atom). Or use Planet Venus instead, it’s feed parser (supposedly) do better work. - I don’t know if putting absolute path for entries in
config.ini(output dir, template file) is a good idea, but I don’t know how to make it work with relative path entries. - Since planetplanet will only generates index.html and feed files to output dir, you need to put the .css and any needed files (image folders, javascript file)on the output dir beforehand
- To generate index.html, you have to set up a cron job to run
planet.py. On cPanel, pick Cron Jobs and insert absolute path on command box to run planetplanet. So you can’t putplanet.py config.ini, but instead you have to put/path/to/planet.py /path/to/where/you/put/config.ini
Other resource: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8772
Some notes of BlankOn Pattimura
- The scrollbar is too small, but can be fixed by editing theme file
kde-plasma-desktopwork whilekde-plasma-netbookdidn’t. Still heavier than default BlankOnPanel. Need to installnetwork-manager-kdeto get networking working (wat?) since I didn’t install full KDE packages.- VLC really need to be made default media player. But I guess removing Totem is just to much hassle.
- GDM aren’t rendered right on netbook small screen
Update:
- KDE4 have tendency to crash. Hard. Seems the netbook resources aren’t enough for KDE to gracefully handle the load
(like several tabs of Google Chrome)
This blog was hacked :(
Indeed, I spent all yesterday morning to fix whatever damages that has been done. It’s not really bad though. Aside of defaced front page and unknown new administrator *gasp*, everything else is normal.
defaced frontpage
the "rogue" admin
It’s amazing that even it went unnoticed for some days, yet it only did minimal damages.
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Is repetition mother of skill?
Not necessarily.
On my college years, we were taught how to write simple CRUD application since 2nd semester. We keep on taught (or as one of the lecturers put it, we would only taught) to writing CRUD app on every semester onward till the last semester, where we were required to write a complex CRUD application for our final projects that will be presented on final exam. One would think that after that repetitive coding for three years, the students shall whip out the application rather easily. But no, many were resorting to err….asking other students to code the projects for them.
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