Monthly Archives: March 2008

Stuffkeeper updates

Added the following items: SupportĀ  for icons combined with types. Adding/editing/removing these icons Start with another db location. (useful for testing stuff) When I get an application icon I will make a preview release. Qball p.s. screenshots

Moved Blog

Moved my blog to http://blog.sarine.nl and put up a redirect on the old url, I hope it works. Please move your bookmarks, the old url will be invalid in a week.

Lirc, controlling even more….

I’ve bought a Microsoft MCE usb infrared transmitter/reciever. (yes I know, ms, but it is cheap decent hardware by Philips). It comes with a receiver, with a very long usb cable. A remote (with backlight) and 2 infrared transmitters. Hooked it up to my mac mini, compiled the latest lirc and everything worked, instantly. After read more »

StuffKeeper: Getting Started Guide

You can find it here:

Low Memory Hacks for gnome.

This page http://live.gnome.org/MemoryReduction/LowMemoryHacks describes some tricks/hacks to use gnome on a low memory machine. I am running gnome on a 184mb Mac Powerbook G3. One of the things that helped me avoid swapping allot, but is missing from the website is replacing gnome-terminal by xterm, or urxvt. Gnome terminal is one of the biggest memory read more »