So I decided to give my blog a new look. The last theme i used is cool, really cool and fitted well with my style. However it had some limitation, the sidebar widget was at the bottom (which defeats the purpose of a sidebar really) and some readers have complained having to scroll all the way down to get to my sidebar.
This new theme is not as cool but at least it gives me a proper sidebar and also width for my guides so its not quash down. eventually i hope to host my blog on my server and i have already started working on that. for now i would appreciate feed back on what you guys feel about this new look.
07.09.2009
Blogroll
Being a sysadmin does come with its ups and down. It’s not a job which comes with glory or fame. When things work no one even remembers to give you a pat in the back. You only hear from them when things go wrong (+ It won’t get you laid or score you high with the girls 
). You get to spend countless hours dealing with “me myself and I” users who always seem to have issues that can escalate to bringing the world as we know it to an end if not promptly attended to. The pay is bad and the work hours are long. Simply put system administration is a job for those who love and have a passion for administering computers and their users. Continue Reading..
26.07.2010
Life, Linux Admin, Sysadmin
In case you never knew. Kubuntu is an official derivative of the Ubuntu operating system using the KDE graphical environment instead of GNOME. While Ubuntu is based on a heavily customized version gnome desktop environment. Kubuntu is just plain vanilla kde (down to artwork) it also lacks some of the features and innovations which canonical has built into Ubuntu hence no ubuntu one, software center, me menu etc. What kubuntu however has going for it is a strong tie to the kde upstream (and the awesomeness which comes with that) and strong community control (meaning less co operate influence). Kubuntu 10.04 LTS was released couple of months ago. It is based on KDE 4.4 which brings a host of features many of which I hope to review in a much later post. I have been running Kubuntu 10.04 now since the Release Candidate and simply upgraded to the final release. So far I would have to say it has been release smooth although not perfect. Compared to Ubuntu The out of the box experience of Kubuntu can be a little rough edge and quite overwhelming especially to a user who is very new to KDE. It is for this reason that I decided to share some tips and walk around for minor annoyances I encountered using Kubuntu Lucid and generally things I did after installing Kubuntu . NB These is by no means the gospel of how kubuntu should be. It is based on how I setup my Kubuntu Desktop (Emphasis on “I” and “My” :D ) Continue Reading..
06.06.2010
KDE, kubuntu
Myself and kopete have always had this love/hate relationship. With my recent update to kde 4.4 our relationships took further nose dive when kopete refused to send my messages to my yahoo contacts even though i could receive messages from them. Here is the bug report about the issue. 
Recently I decided to fix things up between me and kopete so rather than run to its gtk cousin (looking at pidgin) I sort to see if I could resolve the problem. (after all its free and open source software we are talking about so there has got to be a way around the issue right?)
After a bit of googling I found that I am not alone (which is a good sign cause misery loves company)
From my readings it seem to be a problem with the libkyahoo library which is shipped with kde 4.4. Some are suggesting that cause is the new stealth feature introduced in kde 4.4 and occurs only when there are many contacts in contacts list. Continue Reading..
27.04.2010
Guides, KDE
