Slackware Current Update – Xorg and 3D stuff are working in my old laptop

Posted on May 6, 2012 by lysender

Yesterday, there was a huge update in Slackware current regarding Xorg packages and its components. It took me an overnight download to sync the Slackware current tree in my machine and applied updates in the morning. Great results so far.

After upgrading everything from the Slackware current, I immediately started X and launched Firefox. I have read few stories that X is better in this release. Some says that they have better 3D acceleration sort of. I launched Firefox and visited LinuxQuestions.org forum but actually I’m just playing around.

I remember that Firefox has this cool feature that allows visualization of HTML elements in 3D view. This feature was not working before I updated. This time, when I tried it, it works. See image below.

Try it yourself. Enjoy.

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Kangkong Malunggay By Michael V – Bubble Gang

Posted on April 30, 2012 by lysender

Kangkong Malunggay performed by Michael V for Bubble Gang last 27 of April. Lyrics below: Kangkong Malunggay By: Michael V. Kangkong malunggay bili na kayo ng gulay hahaba pa ang ‘yong buhay dahil sa ‘king bagong hanapbuhay guula… haay, haaay.. … Continue reading →

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THE ABC’S OF UNIX

Posted on April 26, 2012 by lysender

A is for awk, which runs like a snail, and B is for biff, which reads all your mail. C is for cc, as hackers recall, while D is for dd, the command that does all. E is for emacs, … Continue reading →

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Bug Fix on World Clock Widgets

Posted on April 23, 2012 by lysender

A month ago, I have posted about my World Clock widgets. However, I have found out that there is a bug on the implementation especially on the cookie part where the timezone and offset information is saved into a cookie. … Continue reading →

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Yet Another Base64 Encoder/Decoder

Posted on April 23, 2012 by lysender

This tool is yet another online, web based, base64 encoder/decoder written in JavaScript. This tool come in handy in times when we needed to either encode or decode base64 string. I have written this tool using various opensource tools. The … Continue reading →

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Finding a string through your source codes

Posted on April 23, 2012 by lysender

Not sure if the title is accurate but what I really wanted to say is to find a certain string, which file and which line within your project directory no matter how deep the directory level is. This is extremely … Continue reading →

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Creating shortcut for finding installed Slackware packages

Posted on April 23, 2012 by lysender

Lazy I am so I created a shortcut for checking if a package is installed in Slackware. Packages are listed on /var/log/packages so basically a basic ls | grep combo is needed to see if a package is already installed. … Continue reading →

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Slackware Current Update Breaks digikam

Posted on April 23, 2012 by lysender

More than a week ago or so, there is a huge update on Slackware current which was mostly due to the KDE 4.8.2 release and its friends likde QT. After a successful upgrade, I noticed a thread regarding digikam being … Continue reading →

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KDE 4.8.2 for Slackware Current

Posted on April 16, 2012 by lysender

Yesterday, I noticed a huge update in Slackware current change log. It was a huge update for KDE with version 4.8.2 hits the current branch. After taking come scouting on the forum and the other Slackware people, I synced my … Continue reading →

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The Proxy That SOCKS

Posted on April 12, 2012 by lysender

A proxy could be either a necessity for an organization or a way to secure browsing or to bypass restrictions from firewalls and web filters. Whatever the use cases might be, the good thing is that there are simple ways … Continue reading →

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