Entries tagged with 'Gnome'

I work with a couple of guys who are quite stuck in their ways and are quite reliant on old tools, one of which is xclipboard(1).
Unfortunately, Gnome comes with it’s own clipboard manager, so when you try to run xclipboard, you get the following:
$ xclipboard
Error: another clipboard is already running
$
Of course, ps(1M) will show no [...]

Links of interest for 6 Apr 2009 - 3 May 2009:

New Time Slider features coming up in OpenSolaris 2009.06 - Some useful and impressive changes are coming to TimeSlider. Time Slider is definitely starting to eclipse OS X’s Time Machine in over-all functionality, and in my opinion, usefulness.
ZFS Encrypted Backup to S3 - Now [...]

Links of interest for 2 Dec 2008 - 8 Dec 2008:

Sun shows Microsoft how it’s done - Now I would never had predicted this: someone saying that Sun has done something on the desktop environment better than Microsoft. I must admit the Time Slider is pretty damn awesome and I think it may put [...]

Links of interest for 14 Oct 2008 - 1 Nov 2008:

Multicore Bollocks - Hmmm, for someone who's head of Microsoft Research in Cambridge, he certainly talks a load of old cobblers about multicore CPUs.
Why RAID 5 stops working in 2009 - Sounds like there will be more need for ZFS then, that's why Sun are [...]

I’ve been using Devilspie for quite some time, and detailed steps on compiling rev 0.10 to run on Solaris 10. Well, I’m now using a OpenSolaris/Nevada Sunray server on x86, so I can no longer use my old binary.
Devilspie has had a complete overhaul since I last built it, so my old instructions don’t [...]