purrkur wrote:Good work there Jeff! I am also a sucker for eye-candy but with work and family taking up my time, things like tinkering with X.org take a back seat. I am always a sucker for seeing what others are doing and exchanging information and howto's as well. So thanks! I'll check out the settings mentioned.
I went poking around on
Debian.org to try and figure out what XServer they're putting in Sarge. It looked like they were still using the XFree 4.3.x line (at least, that's what the unstable branch is currently using). Is this going to be the server that Sarge uses?
Do you know if they're going to switch over to the X.org server? The dust seems to have settled with that particular code fork. I would think that Debian would not move to XFree 4.4.x after the flap over the license terms.
purrkur wrote:I run KDE on my main machine which is a slightly overclocked XP2400+ (I overclocked the FSB to 166MHz), 1 GB memory and a GeForce4 4200 w/128 MB so KDE doesn't feel that bad
On machines with lower hardware I usually use Fluxbox and at times I use Windowmaker as well.
The magic is in the GeForce4. I run a similar card, and the hardware acceleration is all that's needed to get the transparencies working well. I'm running a PII 400 box at the moment, and it doesn't mind doing transparency (it does mind running KDE, though).
I would assume that most cards can do the transparency, it's a pretty old feature, if I remember correctly.
purrkur wrote:Oh, thanks for the knac.com link! I am listening to it right now. If you got more decent radio stations then please post them!
Let's see, I already posted a link to the
Detroit Industrial Underground.
So, besides
KNAC, I listen to
KEXP. It's a public station up here in Seattle, so I get to listen to it on FM as well as streaming. It's an indy rock/independent music station, pretty different from the other two. They play mostly indy rock but they will throw just about anything else into the mix. I like them because the morning DJ (John Richards) has great taste in music, and they never play commercials (which I can't say for any other station broadcasting in Seattle). They do specialty shows in the evenings. I've got a few favorites from that list.
Leon Berman's "Shake the Shack" on Friday night (6pm pacific time) is awesome (it's rockabilly, boogie rhythm and blues, and other good stuff).
Audioasis is on on Saturday nights at 6pm (pacific again), it's the local music show (bands from around Seattle, usually the range is Western Washington).
After Audioasis is Sonic Reducer, the punk show. Always high octane.
I'll turn
C89.5 on on Sunday evenings. They've got an industrial show that runs from 6-midnight pacific time. I wouldn't listen to them at any other time (it's usually bad pop music).
That's most of what I listen to. C89.5 and KEXP both have antennas in my area, so I often listen to them the old-fashioned way.
Jeff