Compiz to the rescue... Again!

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rowing resentment over Metacitys inability to let me choose which mouse-button to use for resizing windows has led me into the loving arms of Compiz, once again.

I thought that I could learn to live with the GNOME Desktop hegemony but I was wrong. After a long and hard search of the internet I have yet to find an elegant solution to my problem; remapping "-Mouse2" to "-Mouse3". I even went so far as to consider KDE4. Since KDE4 doesn't seem to be ready to emancipate me just yet I had to find someting else to get the job done.

Compiz does it again. I found that I would rather have a slightly heavier desktop than live with using the middle mouse-button to resize my windows. After tweaking the Compiz settings a bit it proves quite fast and I do like that windows fade to gray instead of displaying an hourglass/wristwatch at the cursor. Windows going down in a blaze of fire is also good fun.

Absurdly kitchy computer case!

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bout two months ago we decided to purchase a new computer desk. A computer desk that would fit better into our new home.

I had installed most of the components of our small computer system into the new desk when disaster struck! The most important component of all - the actual computer didn't fit! The computer compartment was too small to house the bloated (Fujitsu-Siemens Scaleo T) computer case!

Yes I know... I'm an idiot for not taking the measurements of the case before leaving for IKEA. But in every failure there's an opportunity - sometimes for more mistakes.

Before calling me an idiot. Bare in mind that I have already gotten what I deserve in my new computer case.

We decided to get a new case... (this was not the mistake).We decided to get a white computer case... (we're getting close). The actual mistake emerged as a slight oversight. I had tried very hard to make the computer desk and computer components look unified, in doing this I had forgotten a small detail - the color of the old case's front-components.

Believe it or not but I did not notice this obvious aesthetic issue before migrating the contents of the old computer case to the new one. However after slamming the front cover shut, it slowly dawned on me... I had made a slight color matching error.

As if that wasn't bad enough, the case wasn't the same shade of white as the desk and the silver linings made the case look like a gaudy old ivory makeup case. In the combination with the off black components the case has reached a new height of originality and lack of style.