I’ve learned that even when I have pains, I don’t have to be one.— Dr. Maya Angelou
Archive for August, 2008
On Pain
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008Merging Kopete Contacts
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008For Google and my forgetful self:
To merge two contacts in Kopete into one, right click on the contact you wish to be added to the other, go to the protocol menu (usually last) and choose *Change Meta Contact*. Now search and pick the one you want to add it to.
I’ve had to redo my contact list a few times, and I’d been doing it to most braindead of ways: Removing contacts and readding them under the right meta-contact… Still this isn’t the most obvious of workflows.
Software Net Installers
Saturday, August 23rd, 2008Dear Windows Live,
Windows Live Messenger took 1 hour and 30 minutes to install thanks your installer deciding my offline package (downloaded just this afternoon) was too old. Apparently there was a minute version mismatch with the latest one in your repository.
Installing software on Windows in general is an already slow process, but you seem to think that it’d be awesome to slow me down further. Please bear in mind that not everyone has a T3 connection.
Please fix. Kthnxbai.
Sincerely, Kevin.
openSUSE 11
Friday, August 8th, 2008The installation process for openSUSE 11 is quite impressive. LVM, package selection, desktop selection etc. were all top-notch without any hiccups (unlike my past experiences with Fedora). Post-installation set up was quite smooth as well, except for the part where I wanted a static IP — took 15 minutes to figure the GUI for that out. Seems more geared towards network administrators than end users.
I can’t say I expected the green to be pleasant, but I can’t complain — looks very nice. Overall, solid stuff.