Yearly Archives: 2007

ChiKDE

By Richard A. Johnson on Published: December 31, 2007 at 3:44 pm

Someone just emailed me telling me that they liked the KDE lights in the building in my header above. They want to know how I did it, and honestly, I cannot remember the exact steps, but I played with the “blinds” filter in Gimp until it looked like actual lights. Here is the KDE logo [...]

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Intel 945 Video Hint

By Richard A. Johnson on Published: December 30, 2007 at 11:14 pm

Are you rocking an Intel 945GM chipset with the integrated Intel 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)? If so, this little tweak has helped 3 of us thus far in #kubuntu-devel with KDE 4 and compositing effects. Step 1: xorg.conf editing Section "Device" Identifier "Intel Corporation Mobile Integrated Graphics Controller" Driver "i810" BusID "PCI:0:2:0" [...]

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Cooling recommendations needed

By Richard A. Johnson on Published: December 29, 2007 at 12:27 am

What CPU cooler do you recommend? My specs are this right here: CPU: Pentium 4 D (dual-core) 2.66GHz Mobo: MSI PM8M3-V (micro-atx) LGA775 Case: This one I am looking for a cooler that isn’t to expensive, somewhat quiet, very good, and hopefully doesn’t have those plastic motherboard connectors I previously warned about. Thus far I [...]