Convert the kernel source to no-smp

Posted: 2012-07-29 | Author: | Filed under: system | Tags: , , | Leave a comment

Back in the days of Slackware 12.2 I used the generic nosmp kernel with my old laptop. I used the patch from /extra/linux-2.6.27.7-nosmp-sdk/ to switch the kernel source from SMP to non-SMP. All went well until the kernel was upgraded with the rest to 2.6.27.31 and the patch stopped working. Read the rest of this entry »

Menu entries in E17

Posted: 2012-07-14 | Author: | Filed under: desktop | Tags: , , | Leave a comment

Every now and then I get this ideas to use the amazing Enlightenment17 — a truly beautiful semi desktop environment. The problem with it was that no menu file was provided by default. Recent versions include a menu file, but I still prefer to use the one from before. Read the rest of this entry »

Firefox PDF Viewer plugin

Posted: 2012-07-05 | Author: | Filed under: desktop, network | Tags: , , | 1 Comment

In Slackware64, even if the system is converted to multilib and Adobe Reader runs fine, there will still be problems for it to integrate into Firefox. A 64bit Firefox and 32bit Acrobat apparently do not work nicely together… Read the rest of this entry »

Seamonkey/Firefox Old Default Image Style

Posted: 2012-07-04 | Author: | Filed under: desktop, network | Tags: , , | Leave a comment

I really hate the new default image style for Seamonkey and Firefox: background is forced to black and the image is centered. For example if I want to view some application icon from SBo that has shadow it all looks just wrong… Read the rest of this entry »

More firewall scripts

Posted: 2012-07-02 | Author: | Filed under: system | Tags: , , | Leave a comment

Following this discussion at LQ, I would like to take a note of a few more options for a rc.firewall: Read the rest of this entry »

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