Archive for December, 2007

TwinView with Xorg and ion3

Ok, I was expecting a problem when I recently hooked up a second display to my machine. I knew that ion3 had dropped xinerama-support, and that without xinerama you’d get two seperate X-displays which could even run different window-managers but not allow for moving windows in-between. What I had totally forgotten (haven’t used two displays [...]

vpnc 0.5.1

I had vpnc 0.4.0 running until now (frankly because it worked and 0.5.0 didn’t when I first installed it via portage). Since I was on that shaky WiFi-connection for the last semester I was accustomed to my connection dropping quite often. Now that I am running on DSL (which doesn’t even have a 24h-reconnect) the [...]

(Some) technology sucks (big time)

Sorry in advance, but right now I have the feeling that if I don’t rant a little bit I’m gonna burst. “Technology sucks”, sometimes. First of all there is the “it was fine before but you just _had_ to ‘improve’ it, didn’t you?” kind of suckage (nevermind, I just made that word up). That’s when [...]