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does anyone know how to make kde apps look good on gnome? i use two kde apps, k3b and kate, and they look awfully ugly.

on another note, the air-cons have been installed, so i am looking forward for a productive week at the office. lesson for the new startups - don't ever rely on refurbished/second hand air-cons. man, renovating an office on a shoe string really sucks. another important thing is security. especially if your office is in shoplots, as opposed to say, klcc, or phileo promenade. but hey, you gotta start somewhere.

i know y'all are in cny mood (or the more politically correct lunar new year), but i'm feeling generous. so here's some mad ass jazz shit from dj krush.

p/s: is it just me, or is it that only now i noticed all the hot chixs go to gym on mondays?

listening to: dj shadow - in flux

is it just me, or is quicksilver really that boring? i'm into page 200 of that 900 page book and so far, the story was about london burning, and a bunch of scientists and philosophers performing experiments on stray dogs. there weren't any wars, there was a portion about pirates but that was boring as well. will the story get better? how's the confusion and the system of the world?

listening to: dj shadow - mashin' on the motorway

"while i'm strongly in the favor of the hot makeouts, they're sisters! it's like they've made out with each other, through proxy. transitive makeouts!"

i'm not sure whether i agree with t-rex on this one, but twins? what guy would not want?

listening to: sugababes - push the button

for sale:

• 2 x 256 MB DDR 333MHz notebook ram. price RM 85.00/piece


• a pc with the following specs:




1. AMD Athlon XP 2100+, 1.7MHz


2. 512 MB RAM


3. VIA Motherboard


4. ethernet & graphics adapter, etc


5. 52x CDRW


6. no hard disk


7. price: RM 800, free keyboard, mouse and 17 inch NEC monitor

if you are interested please e-mail me at mel at hackinthebox dot org.

pearls before swine never fails to crack me up




looking for an alternative for vmware player, i decided to give qemu a spin. qemu is an open source processor emulator, in short if you have qemu on your linux box, you can install say, windows or freebsd on it, and run those OSes on top of your linux. here are screenshots of ubuntu running on qemu on my gentoo notebook:


so far, i am very satisfied with qemu. here are the steps that are needed to install ubuntu on qemu on gentoo:

first enable kqemu USE flag:

echo "app-emulation/qemu-softmmu kqemu" >>/etc/portage/package.use

the kqemu use flags will the qemu accelator module. this module will enables the qemu emulator to run faster.

then add the following to your /etc/portage/package.keywords

app-emulation/qemu app-emulation/qemu-softmmu app-emulation/qemu-user app-emulation/kqemu

emerge qemu: emerge qemu

after qemu is installed, create a disk image named ubuntu510.img with a size of 5 jiggabyte:

qemu-img ubuntu510.img 5G

at this point you can start qemu using the image, and install ubuntu. however, the kqemu node needs to be created and the module loaded:

mknod /dev/kqemu c 250 0 chmod 666 /dev/kqemu modprobe kqemu major=0

and now we can start qemu with the following command:

qemu -hda ubuntu510.img -cdrom ubuntu-5.10-install-i386.iso -boot

this tell qemu to treat the recently created disk image as hda, and booting from cdrom using the ubuntu iso image. from here onwards, you will be greeted by the ubuntu installation screen.

the result was good. i managed to get ubuntu up and running (although the installation took a very long time) and managed to get xorg to run on the same resolution as the host. of course gnome (on ubuntu on qemu) is sluggish - maybe i should have configured the xorg at a lower resolution. nevertheless, it's working fine.

listening to: tool - Ã