http://blog.equk.co.uk blog.equk.co.uk Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:39:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I have noticed a lot of people seem to have numerous problems with the ATi/AMD Catalyst drivers. The errors can be caused by a myriad of issues. Sometimes it's as simple as a file being missing and other times it's a registry key. If you already have CCC installed I am ... http://blog.equk.co.uk/2008/07/24/clean-install-of-atiamd-drivers/ I decided to buy a new harddrive for different reasons (the main one being dual/triple booting different OS's). I looked around and decided the samsung spinpoint drives looked pretty good. I never really saw my Seagate 7200.10 320Gb as being slow and had it setup so each OS had 100Gb. Obviously ... http://blog.equk.co.uk/2008/07/07/samsung-spinpoint-f1-750gb/ Finally razer have released the deathadder mac drivers and they are excellent. The gui looks exactly the same as the windows drivers which should be a help for people who are used to razer's stylish, slick interfaces. One thing which seems to be annoying with OS X is the way the mouse ... http://blog.equk.co.uk/2008/06/26/deathadder-mac-os-x-drivers-out/ After giving up and generally being annoyed with gentoo, it was time to look for another distro. I was told archlinux was one of the best upcoming ones. The more I read about it, the more I liked it. It sounded very similar to slackware (a distro I used to use ... http://blog.equk.co.uk/2008/06/19/archlinux-openbox/ I decided to change distro's as ubuntu seemed pretty slow and a bit buggy with some kernel problems etc. I decided gentoo might be a good idea as I had ran it as my main OS from 2002 to 2005 without many problems. The speed was astonishing due to compiling ... http://blog.equk.co.uk/2008/06/19/gentoo-arg/ I'm starting to feel old as it's my 27th Birthday today. It seems like 30 it getting closer, but I still live as if I'm young. I am living on the basis of being 18 till I die, altho I'm not sure how long I can keep it up.Share This http://blog.equk.co.uk/2008/06/12/27-today/ Banshee 1.0 was released yesterday. It's an amazing media player and has some really cool features including albumart, album browsing & last.fm. I have tried most of the other mediaplayers (except amaroK as I'm on Gnome I don't want to install loads of KDE-Libs). Out of the programs I've tried for playing and ... http://blog.equk.co.uk/2008/06/11/banshee-10/ I decided to re-install linux again just to clean the filesystem up and tryout some new stuff. I have made another basic conkyrc config as I cannot find my old one I wrote. The basic setup is ubuntu 8.04 64bit running gnome with compiz effects, the launcher bar is avant-window-manager & ... http://blog.equk.co.uk/2008/06/08/new-linux-install-with-basic-conky-config-setup/ After using last.fm for the past 4months, I thought it would be a good idea to link to last.fm. Using the last.fm widgets was the first option, but I found they look a bit ott and also use too much script overcomplicating a simple task. After trying a few wordpress plugins, I ... http://blog.equk.co.uk/2008/06/02/lastfm-album-art/ I decided to buy a new mouse as my 3year old diamondback seems really worn out. The buttons have shiney parts where the rubber grip has worn thru, the rubber has gone a yellow off-white colour and the side buttons seem less responsive. I love razer mice and decided on the ... http://blog.equk.co.uk/2008/05/25/new-mouse-razer-deathadder/