As a quick update, I am writing this entry from my Samsung NC10. After many months of fiddling with various things, I have finally gotten a working Gentoo installation using Openbox as my window manager. I really enjoy this minimalistic environment, especially on this netbook given that it only has a 1024×600 native resolution. Thus, …
Tag: software
Jan 28 2009
Openbox HOWTO entering finished state
After well over a month, I believe that my Openbox tutorial for Gentoo is nearing completion. I have the rough draft done with all the sections that I’m going to implement. It is available under the “Current Contributions” section of my developer site: dev.gentoo.org/~nathanzachary Feel free to check it out if you want some technical …
Jan 23 2009
Great computer satire
Hello all, I found this funny and satiric article about the new trend amongst computer enthusiasts: underclocking. http://www.bbspot.com/News/2003/07/underclocking.html Although there are several ways to underclock a computer (including setting the RAM timings lower than rated and decreasing the clock cycles of the CPU), the best way is not hardware related at all. You simply have …