Posts Tagged Komputer

ipconfig on Linux?

Posted by Willy Permana in Komputer on August 27, 2010

Yesterday, I happened to notice something really weird on my Ombilin machine. Each time I logged in, there’s this “ipconfig” process that consumes one of CPU cores usage up to 99%.

IIRC, ipconfig is a Windows program. So what’s it doing on a Linux box?

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Cairo-dock is THE dock!

Posted by Willy Permana in Komputer on July 28, 2010

It doesn’t need Compiz, got minimal resource usage, no-OpenGL mode, and has several nifty widgets. It’s essentially giving you flashy stuff without sacrificing performance.

What else you could ask? :)

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Be yourself?

Posted by Willy Permana in Komputer, Lain-lain, Random thoughts on June 13, 2010

I noticed something funny yesterday (for me at least). I just realized that “Be Yourself” by Audioslave was the only song that has zero playcount on Rhythmbox, even though it’s been weeks since I installed Lucid and God knows how many times it plays “Human Beings” by Van Halen over and over. It’s rather surprising that there’s a song that hasn’t been played yet despite the playlist is quite short (about 158 songs). Guess that’s what you’d expect from shuffle mode, but still…

Speaking about “Be Yourself”, I think it’s the only necessary mantra to get yourself alienated from the crowd. People tend to expect you to dress the same, behave the same, speak the same, and or think the same like them before they would accept you tho the group. To be yourself means being different to the rest of the group, and that’s a no-no.

But what am I kidding? We are social beings to begin with, so to submit to the peer pressure is only inevitable. Even if it’s feel bitter :P

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A witty advice

Posted by Willy Permana in Komputer on May 22, 2010

My netbook webcam doesn’t work properly on BlankOn Nanggar. It can capture images, but it will be displayed upside down. After several hours googling, I finally get some sure workaround to solve this problem.

*Try holding your computer upside-down*. Dead simple, no? :)


Even though I already used the libv4l library, the webcam still displaying images upside-down. Maybe the webcam still haven’t been included on libv4l table on Nanggar release.

Well, it’s not like I badly need to use the webcam. But I do hope it’ll be fixed on the next BlankOn release. Maybe it’s already fixed on Ubuntu 10.04.

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E17 a.k.a Enlightenment, a lightweight window manager

Posted by Willy Permana in Komputer on March 30, 2010

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 :P ). 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.

  1. Edit my sources list

    2. $ sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

  2. Add following line

    3. deb http://packages.enlightenment.org/ubuntu jaunty main extras

  3. Add repo key

    4. wget http://packages.enlightenment.org/repo.key.old -O - | sudo apt-key add -

  4. Update packages and install Enlightenment

    5. $ sudo apt-get update
    $ sudo apt-get install e17

  5. Log out and choose Enlightenment session

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.

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