unsettling hope

on the way to work

This in part a test post to see if this works from phone, and to check that the post appears ok. This was just a snap shot taken on my … Continue reading

May 30, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Chakra – new theme

I’ve been playing around with the theming of my Chakra set up, until I got something that I liked. Yes, it is very indebted to the Mac-styling, but hey, it … Continue reading

April 3, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Rekonq; a review

I was going to write a review of the rekonq webrowser which comes as the default in Chakra. But for some reason when I came to the wordpress site to … Continue reading

March 22, 2012 · 1 Comment

Does google still provide the best search results?

In an earlier post I mentioned that I was going to try and reduce my reliance on google. One of the areas where google is the default ‘go-to’ application is … Continue reading

March 15, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Chakra – font rendering

One of the first things I set about doing after installing Chakra, was to improve the font rendering. To be honest after the install it wasn’t bad, but having come … Continue reading

March 14, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Chakra installation

I am writing this post on my fresh installation of Chakra. The installaltion process went perfectly, with no problems. Firstly I formated my hard drive, I did this using system … Continue reading

March 13, 2012 · 2 Comments

The Chakra Experiment

As I type this I am backing up all the files on my laptops hard drive, so I can format it and begin what I am calling the ‘Chakra experiment.’ … Continue reading

March 13, 2012 · Leave a Comment

elementary luna, looking good

Another linux distribution who’s development I follow closely is elementary, and their next stable release named ‘luna’. elementary is built on top of Ubuntu, (and luna will be built on … Continue reading

February 28, 2012 · Leave a Comment

KDE4.8 review

It’s not just me that has been supremely impressed with KDE4.8, the guys over at The Linux Action show have just given it a glowing review. You can see it … Continue reading

February 20, 2012 · 1 Comment

Opensuse 12.1, KDE4.8 review

Some days are better than others… So I’ve been using the KDE4.8 version of Opensuse 12.1 for a couple of weeks now…what are my thoughts? A bit of tangent to … Continue reading

February 15, 2012 · 2 Comments

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