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The latest sources for Ubuntu Hoary I use, changed dramatically. It are the standard sources because there is no need anymore to get custom binaries of mplayer and jdk. 😛

deb http://be.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-updates main restricted
deb-src http://be.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-updates main restricted
deb http://be.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary universe
deb-src http://be.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary universe
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-security main restricted
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-security main restricted
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-security universe
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-security universe
deb http://be.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary main restricted
deb-src http://be.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary main restricted


For the time being, I uploaded a screenshot :p I still use Gentoo 2005.0 as operating system and XFCE 4.2.2 as window manager.

Everybody knows that you have an away status on IRC (you set it when you are gone). You can check the status of every person on an irc network. BUT on the Quakenet network, there are many people who doesn’t know that. I am getting highlights and personal messages all the time (very annoying, cause they simple don’t see that you are away).
I decided to make a perl script. If you use the /away [message] command, your status will be away offcourse. When somebody sends you a personal message, a personal message will be send to him/her that you are away. If he/she keeps repeating this, he will be warned once every 15 minutes. On highlighting it’s the same. The highlighter will be send a notice (once in 15 minutes) and the highlighted message will appear in a logtab.
The code of this script is nearly finished, but I’m bugfixing it. 🙂

A week ago, I decided to use XFCE 4.2 as windowmanager on my Gentoo box. I used it before but for some reason I quitted it (messing things up with gnome I think). For the moment I am quite satisfied with this WM. It works faster as Gnome and the looks are better as KDE. We should see what the future brings 🙂

Yesterday I started testing Vmware Workstation 5.0. I was very amazed about this stuff, I thought it wouldn’t run that smooth 🙂 It’s very handy to run Photoshop and other stuff in Linux without booting Windows all the time. The w32 applications are running better than with Wine (a w32 emulator) for example. Nice!

Friday, a guy decided to crash in 4 of our teachers’ cars. You can find some more explanation on Nepie’s blog and more exactly in this post.
A picture:

Time for an actual desktop I thought. For the moment I am (still) using Gentoo 2005.0 with Gnome2.8 (Digital-Harmony theme) and Xorg6.8.2. The system is working perfect!

This morning (9h:40 CEST), I saw on the irc.freenode.org #ubuntu-nl channel, that Ubuntu Hoary ‘s stable! It’s a great release with Gnome2.10, Xorg 6.8.2-10 and Kernel 2.6.10
Downloads:

Have you ever seen a Formula-1 motor test? Well here you can find a movie where a team is presenting a new motor. Isn’t normal that machine!

For the moment, there are 2 great distro’s I like to use. Ubuntu and Gentoo. After 1 month a half I decided to switch again from Ubuntu (Hoary) to Gentoo.
Previously I switched to Ubuntu cause I got sick compiling all the stuff. Now I have a bit more time, so I can make my Gentoo runs smooth. 🙂 In fact there is no reason for me to switch from Ubuntu to Gentoo again, Ubuntu runs just great (or maybe that’s the reason). :p
So after an evening setting up and a whole night compiling, I have my Xorg and Gnome (with 3D acc.) running.