Kalimat al-Mutafalsif

Well, after messing around a tad, I got my Desktop running with TwinView (an Nvidia option for dual-head). While my "work" screen's not as big as I'd like yet, here's how it currently looks. Quite an improvement, I'd say.

I like it... gonna try to pretty it up just a hair more (and fix the background image script I have) as well as see if I can't squeeze just a hair more pixels out of the height.

So... I can run this laptop (Dell Inspiron 9100 with ALLLLLL the trappings) under Windows up at 1900x1200. Gorgeous display, really. Well, I've never actually had a hack session on my xorg.conf to get it going at that resolution (its only at 1280x768.... abysmal). Well... I think I found my problem...

Yup, according to that my screen is updating -15596 times a second. Huh... guess that explains why i get headaches from coding on MountainDont all the time. Hopefully I'll throw up a fixed version as soon as I restart the X server.

EDIT: Yup, with just a little tweaking the laptop now shows at 1280x800 and 60 Hz refresh. Much better place to start.

Well, in case you can't guess from the title, it's been exactly a year since I started this blog. To be more specific, it was November 20th of last year that I registered the domain. This post also (totally not planned, I swear) happens to be my 100th. Again, to be more specific it's my 100th page... pages include things such as my warhammer picture pages and the others you find under "Pages" on the right. So, this'll be a fun past, five days in the making, about all kinds of things dealing with the past year. ((Published a second time, I apologize))

Some History
The domain was registered while taking one of my patented Long Thanksgiving Breaks. That was ThanksGaming 2005, and I grabbed the domain one night while talking to that coder I always mention, Malaprop of Cambrian House. Malaprop kindly put the domain on his site, installed WordPress, and away I went. My first actual post (I believe) was on the 20th of 2005, but it was accidentally deleted, so the first surviving post is from the 21st.
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This post is for anyone who uses Linux or wants to learn about it. A long time ago I started a page: "The Infinite Linux Desktop". Its purpose is to show how unique Linux desktops can be. Be it from using a different windows manager, to changing the theme of your windows, to running just a command line there's (not uite) infinite possibilities!

Because I'm dedicated to helping others learn more about Linux, I'm asking for any screenshots of your desktop you may want to submit. In addition to posting your picture on that page, I'll put up your name (or handle), website, and what you're running. of course, you can opt out of that information if you want. I ask that all pictures include (in the email, or however you get it to me) your Distro and kernel, if possible. I'm trying to show diversity, so that's kind of important. Basically just look at the existing pictures and you'll know waht to do.

If nothing else, send me the picture and get free advertising for your site!

Hopefully, later on, I'll do another post about some cool feature of linux. For now, however, you'll have to live with these cool pictures.