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Eric Mesa | April 11, 2013
It’s once again time for my biweekly Photojojo post. For those of you who haven’t been following my blog for a long time, Photojojo is a digital time capsule service. Every two weeks they send me an email that has my most interesting photos posted to flickr from one year ago. The biggest takeaway which [...]
Eric Mesa | May 4, 2012
Around a year ago I decided to KDE in Spanish to learn some technical terms. Back then I was using GDM, but now I’m using KDM. I didn’t see a way to set the language! How would I change the language to Spanish? I took a look online and found instructions. I’m going to reproduce [...]
Eric Mesa | February 8, 2012
I did it! I have created my first ever useful GUI program. After all these years of thinking that all the useful GUIs had already been invented – I found an itch to scratch. And here’s how the final, working version looks: And so there it is! I was actually surprised that this last little [...]
Eric Mesa | January 25, 2012
OK, so it’s been a year since I last blogged about working on this program. I tried working on the data engine in August and then got stuck right around the time I started my first semester of grad school so I had to drop it, even though it got stuck in my head and [...]
Eric Mesa | January 5, 2012
So I took a look at Blogilo a few days ago. So, taking a look at my Blogilo post I have to say that it is pretty much ALMOST there for the perfect offline blogging tool for someone using WordPress. Sure, it doesn’t allow your to create categories, but a blog like mine that’s been around [...]
Eric Mesa | December 29, 2011
For the most part, I haven’t seen the point of using blog editors like Blogilo. While there might have been a purpose to them back in the dialup days, it seems pointless in the days of always on broadband connections. Also, back before blog software like WordPress had their great visual editors, I could see [...]
Eric Mesa | December 6, 2011
I’ve been reading a lot about kde-telepathy and it seems to be the next evolution beyond Kopete. So I decided to check it out in my Fedora Rawhide VM since that’s going to have the latest packages and telepathy is still in deep beta. When I installed all the packages that seemed to be important, [...]
Eric Mesa | November 25, 2010
Back when I first started using Linux I was using a very underpowered computer that I got donated as part of my research at school. So OpenOffice.org was a real pain in the butt to use. It took forever to load! KOffice, on the other hand, loaded up quickly. At that time, with KOffice 1, [...]
Eric Mesa | November 24, 2010
Sure, it’s a tired and cliche phrase, but hurray for the wisdom of the crowd. I’ve received comments on identi.ca, twitter, and in the comments here with answers to nearly all my problems with KDE. Let’s see if I can get them all to work. First off, I was told that my problem with Konversation [...]
Eric Mesa | November 18, 2010
There was a time when I thought Amarok was the best music player on Linux. I even used to run it in Gnome as you can see from this 2005 screenshot. In that first link you can read me gushing over Amarok 1.4. I loved all the integrated technologies, especially the metadata juggling Amarok did. [...]
Eric Mesa | October 22, 2008
For some reason, I didn’t get Linux Format Magazine issue #110 when I was supposed to. I ordered another copy and it arrived recently, so it’s time for another slate of Linux reviews. Unfortunately, something appears to be wrong with the way they mastered the magazine DVD, because I was unable to boot into any [...]
Eric Mesa | February 2, 2008
Compiz-Fusion, as you surely know is responsible for eye candy on GNU/Linux distros such as windows that turn into paper airplanes when the user minimizes it to turning the desktop into a spinning cube. There’s something about the wobbly windows that provides some a sense of inertia that just makes things feel a little more [...]
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