whistler’s blog

Define life.
You don’t define life, life defines you.

Yes there are a lot of lists like this already. This one is my own, a list of software I installed right after reinstallingUbuntu. These go well with the Gnome Desktop.
exaile – Music player based on Amarok.
gnome Do – Amazingly simple way to open programs, files and much more, even tweet.
Vlc – The universal video [...]

“Don’t let school get in the way of your education.”
- Mark Twain

“Crossing into Gaza, I was asked at the check point
if I was carrying any weapons. I replied, Oh yes, my prayer books.”
- Mother Teresa

For other things, you can motivate yourself by saying: “I can do it, its not rocket science”, but Mechanical engineering IS rocket science.

“Don’t tell people how good you make your goods. Tell people how good your goods will make them.” – Kenneth M. Goode

configuring the gnome desktop environment

Don’t judge a program by it’s screenshot

I first tried linux around in the year 2000 or maybe it was ‘01. Although I’ve used both along side, I found KDE better then Gnome as it has more features and lots of things to configure and tweak. I had mainly been using Redhat and then Fedora. In 2005, I shifted to Ubuntu and [...]

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