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Comment on Acer Aspire One AOD150 by thayer

thayer — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 22:38:41 +0000

I did yes, but actually these days I’m using an MSI Wind U120. It was one of the only netbooks I could find with a matte finish screen. Thankfully, it has a standard US keyboard with larger shift key as well. My son now has the Acer =)

Comment on Acer Aspire One AOD150 by littlebear

littlebear — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 22:23:20 +0000

You got the Canadian Acer? :P I like the original Taiwan’s better, their shift key is so BIG lol

Comment on 50% Probability of sharing? by Gen2ly

Gen2ly — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 23:12:33 +0000

Just wanted to say great looking site – very well done. Oh yeah, and +1 for Arch :D.

Comment on Acer Aspire One AOD150 by Bryan Toller

Bryan Toller — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 23:02:15 +0000

lol. I use the same one, also as my primary workstation for almost a year now.
I wiped the recovery partition. No need for it.

Arch 4.3
OpenBox3
tint2 (the panel is only 10px high)
Using one of your themes now. Still want to collapse the titlebar more, so it doesn’t exist.

Comment on VolWheel: Volume control for the minimalist desktop by nawitus

nawitus — Mon, 11 May 2009 22:06:03 +0000

The only slight problem is that the volume control isn’t instant, like there is a slight delay when changing volume. Other than that, perfect!

Comment on Acer Aspire One AOD150 by mAcKsAm

mAcKsAm — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:52:26 +0000

Hi. I have an acer one too, but i have a problem with firefox and dwm, maybe you help me.
Always then i open firefox, the windows is with short dimensions, i added NoDDC and displaySize on xorg.conf but i don’t no what happen…. thanks :)

Comment on Acer Aspire One AOD150 by thayer

thayer — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:27:03 +0000

I haven’t done much optimizing yet to be honest, but my standard config of dwm seems to be working pretty good. I may change the default layout to monocle and add the client count patch, but that’s about it for the time being. As you mentioned in your recent TWM revisit, it’s hard to go back once you’ve gone tiling.

This all said, I plan to keep my eye on the netbook-centric application GUIs as they mature.

Comment on Acer Aspire One AOD150 by gladstone

gladstone — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 23:25:57 +0000

A 1024×600 netbook as a primary workstation?! How are you optimising the use of your screen’s (minimal) real estate?

Comment on Women in G-Strings…the saga continues five years and counting by Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:09:26 +0000

Is it really so offensive to you that you would refuse to play a game because of it? A lot of women get caught up in this but conveniently forget that the men are stereotyped just as much.

Not every man is white, dark-haired and blue-eyed. Not every man has hulking muscles and a hairy chest, or whatever other stereotype you can think of. That’s not really the point, though. The game’s fun level is the important part.

Sure, it wouldn’t kill developers to put more thought into their character designs, but hey.. guys have tolerated playing as guys that are nowhere near their real selves. Why is it suddenly important for us to consider that women are being portrayed as sex objects (while assuming that the men aren’t)?

That’s the media for you. They take something people like (or dislike) and take it to an extreme to evoke more response. That generates attention and generally profit. It works.

Comment on VolWheel: Volume control for the minimalist desktop by Zack

Zack — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 03:56:28 +0000

This is perfect. I’ve had an alsamixer entry in my openbox menu, but this is much nicer. It’s in the repos now which is convenient.