Posted on March 24th, 2009 in MC | 13 Comments »
Ok, so at the end of the year (2008) My doctor recommended that I start a diet. This was due to some concerning levels of Cholesterol. I was not thrilled about the idea, and besides almost all the dudes I know are much larger fellas that lil’ old me.
With a bit of convincing from my wife, I decided to start on Jan 1, 2009.
As of today, my Cholesterol is at the low end of normal (no crappy pharmaceuticals needed) and I’ve shedded over 50 lbs (I’m now at a staggering 164lbs)
Although weight-loss was not the goal of the diet, it sure is a nice consequence. I’m wearing sizes I haven’t since high school.
I still have about 6 weeks to go on the prescribed diet, and then another 4 weeks of transition from diet to normal life, but I felt a real sense of achievement with the blood test results and I had to share!
(although my blood pressure shot through the roof earlier today :P )
Posted on March 15th, 2009 in MC | 2 Comments »
Love Kubuntu?
Hate Bugs?
Love helping others?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, please consider joining the Kubuntu bugs team
Also, come and help on #kubuntu-bugs (on IRC - irc.freenode.net)
Posted on January 12th, 2009 in MC, kde | 1 Comment »
sudo apt-get install amarok
The Amarok Team did an AMAZING job with this release! So install it and play with it a bit.
Intrepid users please click here 
Just a quick note that deKorator has been ported to KDE 4 and now works in Jaunty (and is in the kubuntu-members-kde4 ppa for Intrepid users)
I jumped the gun on this one a week ago. It was updated on Jaunty, then a prior bug had it removed from the archives - so it had to go throught the new queue once again
deKorator is similar to Emerald, as it allows you to change the window frames without changing the style. It’s real handy for those of us who like shiny sparkley stuff You can find deKorator Themes here.
The package name is kwin-style-dekorator
Be on the lookout for more exciting KDE News this week from your friendly neighborhood Kubuntu Ninjas.
Ohio Linux Fest is a mere days away!
- Mackenzie Morgan will be giving a killer talk on security when using wifi!
- Dan Chen will help us navigate the mysteries of Sound
- Jono Bacon will be rocking the house with the final Keynote address!
- The gang from the Ohio LoCo team are putting together a killer booth (the Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania LoCo teams are coming as well)
and don’t forget to register
for the uber geeks, bring two forms of Government issued photo ID for keysigning
ALSO, Congrats Harald for making Core-Dev!
Posted on October 4th, 2008 in kde | 2 Comments »
< JontheEchidna> maybe Ubuntu should consider kwin as default windowmanager
The kwin cube in all it’s glory:
GO ninja’s go!
Email Memos are one of the many great new features in use on freenodes shiny new services.
Memoserv is a widely underused feature of IRC, and one which I find very helpful. Memoserv allows you to send a “memo” to a person, if they are either not online, or away from their keyboard.
The command is simply:
/msg memoserv send <nick> <your message>
Memoserv will store the message, and when the user connects to freenode, and identifies with services, they will see they have a message(s).
With freenode’s new services, freenode users have the option to have memos forwarded to their email address (of course, you need to set an email address on your nick).
To use this option, simply use the command:
/msg NickServ SET EMAILMEMOS ON
You’ll receive an email that looks like:
Vorian,
You have a new memo from Vorian.
test
Thank you for your interest in the freenode IRC network.
If you frequent freenode, I hope you find this function as useful as I do.
I should have caught this earlier, but the day is actually different next week. Sorry for the confusion.
The next meeting is scheduled for 5-Jun-2008, 01:00 UTC (9pm Eastern Daylight Time on the 4th of June) and and will be held in #ubuntu-meeting on irc.freenode.net.
More info here
See ya there!
The first meeting of the Americas is scheduled for 29-May-2008, 00:00 UTC (8pm Eastern Daylight Time on the 28th) and and will be held in #ubuntu-meeting on irc.freenode.net.
Please review the information from the Fridge here if you have applied or are planning on applying for Ubuntu Membership!
See ya there
