- Wow. Dolphin in KDE 4.8 is MUCH faster. Thank goodness. about 14 hours ago
- His hall had no oates about 2 weeks ago
- @actuel You will be missed by all who knew you, sir. Requiescat in pace. about 2 weeks ago
- tinymediaempire:
“you push and pull like wolves at the door and... about 1 month ago
“you push and pull like wolves at the door and all i hear is humming.”
20x30” screen print
2009I LOVE THIS
- @wondermarkfeed I'd actually be very interested in a poll on #827. about 1 month ago
- RT @DanaDanger: HTTP response codes for dummies. 50x: we fucked up. 40x: you fucked up. 30x: ask that dude over there. 20x: cool. about 2 months ago
- RT @WolfpackAlan: Facebook asks what I’m thinking. Twitter asks what I’m doing. Foursquare asks where I am. The Internet has turned into ... about 2 months ago
- French peasants meet the hydrogen balloon, 1783. http://t.co/RFFsyaK9 about 2 months ago
- @jeb_ I've got a regex that looks for a LOT of bad words (in English). Let me know if that would somehow help w/ scanning the translations. about 3 months ago
- @fireland I survived #expiredham week and all I got was this lousy (vomit- and diarrhea-stained) t-shirt. about 4 months ago
- Hold on the range. about 6 months ago
- @jscottindy Gee. I'm stumped. Poor thing. about 6 months ago
- ...Which is too awesome to describe. about 8 months ago
- My friend Tim sent me this link to a Leon the Professional Action Figure: http://t.co/adSSmxxJ ... for $235. about 8 months ago
- @GreatDismal Is there any way to get super-cheap digital copies of your books I already own in paper format? about 8 months ago
- @lilcarriebird Happy happy happy happy happy happy happy happy happy happy happy happy happy happy happy happy happy happy happy happy birt- about 8 months ago
- @jeb_ Was flying around, witnessed trees render right next to a lava pit, consequently huge forest fire started; could that be the problem? about 8 months ago
- RT @serafinowicz: Dear people wishing Freddie Mercury a happy birthday: I have some troubling news for you about 8 months ago
- @lilcarriebird Shut up, woman! =] about 9 months ago
- @lilcarriebird baby steps! about 9 months ago
- @root2702 "Oh." Ha! about 9 months ago
- RT @cbtacy: RT @TomRaftery It'd be great if politicians had to wear sponsorship logos, like formula 1 cars, so we could see who they rea ... about 9 months ago
- @ellers How did the ChaCha UK launch go? about 9 months ago
- kde 4.5 - using dual monitor wallpapers in a slideshow about 1 year ago
KDE 4.5 does not support spreading a single wallpaper image across dual monitors. Initially, I attempted splitting the wide (3840x1080) images in half, then using KDE’s slideshow to have them both change at the same time; unfortunately, KDE’s slideshow pulls images in a random order.
Eventually I found a solution. Set each KDE desktop to slideshow, pointed at a folder which contains one image. This ensures that the desktop attempts to refresh its background at whatever frequency you set that for. I then wrote a script to select a random image out of a directory of dual monitor backgrounds, cut the image in half, and save the left and right halves to the above “slideshow” directories, overwriting the image that was currently in place. The script runs in my crontab every ten minutes. The KDE desktop refreshes the background every five minutes, so I get a new background sometime around ten minutes.
Now, I can grab images at my leisure from dualmonitorbackgrounds.com and have them automatically split and handled by my slideshow by simply dropping them into a particular directory. Magic!
Here’s the script:
#!/bin/bash
# some setup
WPD=$HOME/.kde/share/wallpapers/dm # directory of wide (3840x1080) images
WWPD=$WPD/tmp # location to store split images
OLWPD=”$WPD/L_USE” # directory the left image should be placed into
ORWPD=”$WPD/R_USE” # directory the right image should be placed into# select random wallpaper file from WPD
RFN=`/bin/ls -1 “$WPD” | sort —random-sort | grep “.jpg$” | head -1`;
RFP=`readlink —canonicalize “$WPD/$RFN”`;# split vertical into WWPD
convert $RFP -crop 50%x100% +repage $WWPD/wp_%d.jpg;
CONVERSION_RESULT=`echo $?`;if [ $CONVERSION_RESULT -eq 0 ]; then
# move left (0) into OLWPD
mv $WWPD/wp_0.jpg $OLWPD/wp.jpg;# move right (1) into ORWPD
mv $WWPD/wp_1.jpg $ORWPD/wp.jpg;
else
echo “Conversion Failed ($CONVERSION_RESULT)”;
exit 1;
fi;exit 0;
- auto swat about 2 years ago
- Reilly about 2 years ago
- Aiden about 2 years ago
- Aiden & Ryder about 2 years ago
- Aiden's clone war troopers. about 2 years ago
- Reilly, Aiden, & Ryder about 2 years ago
- Reilly about 2 years ago
- 1281739063322.jpg about 2 years ago
- 1281653125344.jpg about 2 years ago
- 1281611393073.jpg about 2 years ago
- Leapster about 2 years ago
- Aiden burped, Reilly is impervious about 2 years ago
- Quality time about 2 years ago
- Aiden about 2 years ago
- Aiden about 2 years ago
- Aiden about 2 years ago
- Reilly about 2 years ago
- Reilly about 2 years ago
- skel about 2 years ago
- IMG_20100806_121258 about 2 years ago
- Los spaghetti-heads (2 of 2) about 2 years ago
- Which language? about 2 years ago
Found this on a forum. In response to the question “Which programming language should I learn first?” - one user responds:
Depends.
To program in an expressive and powerful language: Python
To get a website up quickly: PHP
To mingle with programmers who call themselves “rockstars”: Ruby.
To really learn to program: C.
To achieve enlightenment: Scheme.
To feel depressed: SQL
To drop a chromosome: Microsoft Visual Basic
To get a guaranteed, mediocre, but well paying job writing financial applications in a cubicle under fluorescent lights: Java.
To do the same thing with certifications and letters after your name: C#
To achieve a magical sense of childlike wonder that you have a hard time differentiating from megalomania: Objective C
I could go on… but I’m not feeling hateful enough today. - you aren't understanding me about 2 years ago
…and then we’ll sit at opposing ends of a fourteen-foot (mahogany?) table in some conference room that doesn’t exist and we’ll discuss the game plan, the strategy, the slogan/motto/brainwash and they’ll periodically bring us coffee and bagels and catered lunches.
We’ll scratch empty poetry on yellow legal pads, pretending to pay attention. ‘MEETING ADJOURNED’ I’ll scream every fourth hour and you’ll nod and frown and nod and point to stupid pie-charts and graphs that illustrate the impact of written words having absolutely nothing to do with everything on how I relate to the world.
De-analyze/don’t read too deep. The meaning has been transposed to more important elements.
- Only backwards about 2 years ago
You can’t write that down, she tells me. Or everybody will know. But I do it anyway; Write it down in big fat Sharpie (R? TM?) Permanent Marker on the vestibule (? Maybe just a hall?) wall. And I sign it in only slightly smaller characters, with that disctinctive half-cursive SCO combination I hate but have resigned myself to accepting as my signature.
For good measure, I add my phone number. Only backwards.
- Playing with Heather's Gift about 2 years ago
- Unwrapping Heather's Gift about 2 years ago
- Reilly inhaling a Cupcake about 2 years ago
- Reilly playing with a nerf ball about 2 years ago
- Reilly's Mood-Swinging Temper Tantrum about 2 years ago
- The boys throwing balls around about 2 years ago
- Aiden, Wii music about 2 years ago
- fireland:
Fuck art.
Awesome. about 3 years ago
- You are in a Tion. about 3 years agoI have to pee.
He said with a concerned look on his face.
OK. - But what religion are you *really*? about 3 years ago
This is good clean fun — a quiz that asks you 20 questions and tells you what religions you most closely allign with.
be warned: Belief-O-Matic™ assumes no legal liability for the ultimate fate of your soul.
here are my top 10:
1. Theravada Buddhism (100%) 2. Unitarian Universalism (97%) 3. Mahayana Buddhism (95%) 4. Liberal Quakers (88%) 5. Neo-Pagan (84%) 6. New Age (79%) 7. Secular Humanism (73%) 8. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (72%) 9. Taoism (67%) 10. Jainism (65%)This was interesting. I think of myself as agnostic and sometimes atheist, but according to this, if I were a religion, I’d be 100% Unitarian Universalist. So basically same diff.
How intriguing. I’ve always thought I was simply ‘agnostic/atheist’ but it turns out I’m actually a secular humanist. Very much a secular humanist.
- Why do you think it is the governments job to keep you safe from... about 4 years ago
Why do you think it is the governments job to keep you safe from terrorists and not the governments job to keep you safe from illness? I just don’t get this.
In my opinion, terrorists are typically the enemy of a state. Illnesses rarely target victims based on culture, geography, et cetera.
- Found whilst packing about 4 years ago
Bottom desk drawer. Locked. Key long since lost. Post-makeshift-crowbar nets: A broken (cleanly in half) pencil next to a barely legible post-it note reading: NO no no no, the mouse could not have written that letter (No idea what this means, though it is clearly in my (or some approximation of my) handwriting).
- -_- (via pics_for_all) about 4 years ago
- 4yrs later... and still no idea who 'yes motion ideal' is... about 4 years ago
- We wrote the piece [unpracticed]. about 4 years ago
We wrote the piece; a bricklaid down to sleep— thru the window. wrapped in thick brown paper. she slips; listed, listing left finally coll apsing. on. the stairs withoutlessthanaheavysigh of desperation. hands me the violin on which i remember i know no notes. (INVENT!but w/o circumvention!or retention!) - loop about 5 years ago
—The whole damn thing spirals out of control. Slippery slope, whirlpool, the works; like a giant sucking machine slurping the worst of it all—whooosh—right down it's gullet. So what now? we ask ourselves. Heh, nothing to do but write notes about the experience to ourselves on post-its; black ink scattered across the surface, invariably congregating in the lower right corner like a... a... like a—OH what's the use? Really?
She told me once, You've got to stop the daydreaming. You've got to take a deep breath, open your eyes and get a grip on reality. Because it's screaming past you so fast you're spinning in circles, facing a completely different direction than the one you started in. And so you're not making any progress. No progress whatsoever.
But it doesn't really matter because I've got no GOAL, thus no PATH to it. I'm kind of just letting these things happen. Trusting in SOMETHING to happen—
The house explodes. A couch and a television mating in mid-air, passionately embracing behind the privacy of a thick cloud of smoke and steam. He gets a phone call and leaves the office in one hell of a hurry, leaving his briefcase behind, speeding speeding speeding until he's standing in front of the ash, breathing it all in.—on it's own, no matter HOW pointless it may seem, steering me in whatever direction fate has in mind. I don't WANT control. I HAD control once, but GOSH there are too many decisions to make. Even the little, seemingly unimportant choices have a direct impact (Wassat called? Butterfly effect?). Eventually, everything overwhelms you, swallows you whole, and you're forced to just sit and watch as— - Wednesday, May 23rd about 5 years agoin which a series of hastily prepared reports incurs a sense of impending doom, repressing any remaining traces of motivation with a finality befit that of death itself.
- the way things are about 5 years ago
You are at home, standing in front of your kitchen stove, trying to remember where you put your keys (they're on the console table by the front door, where you've always intended to keep them but never remember to). You're really in a terrific hurry, but a totally unmotivated one. Like having to go to work on a weekend. Or maybe shopping for something stupid but necessary, like a new razor or something. And you've only got a few minutes to spare. And then you finally remember where your keys are and so you go do whatever it is you needed to do and it's just like that. Absolutely, totally, insanely uneventful.
Anyways, that's pretty much how things are with me. How 'bout you?
- ahhhh about 5 years agoahhhh. the kid is at his grandmom's for the night and i just took the BEST NAP EVER.
- hello world!!!!!1!!11!ONE about 5 years agoI'M BACK!
Here's how i am RIGHT THIS MINUTE:
So effin' tired of myspace. So effin' tired of the whole internet. Also, feeling rather unmotivated and bored. I think I need to learn something new.
For those not in the know (it's been quite a while since I've spoken to some of you), me and the android had a small accident that eventually led to the birth of our (now nine months old) son (Aiden James). He's a goddamn rockstar. We love the bejesus out of him.
Anyways. Hello again.
