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Today I played with Conky a liittle more . I got way too frustrated with the weather script and gave up for now. Basically what was happening was the 2 that I found either would not work or would pull the weather from Munich, Germany and give only celsius temperatures. So I made it very  simple.

I may play with layout some more later. But for now this is what it is. Shows information I personally need to know about my machine. And of course what the time is. I think I should put the clock back on the panel because most of the work I do covers up the desktop and I always have to minimize to see what time it is. Read the rest of this entry »

Today I played around a little with Conky. I got a weather script working and more system monitors going smoothly now as you can see from the screenshot.

I got this setup from the Ubuntu Blog website which it was very helpful, but seeing how I am wireless more I needed more variables to add to my setup. And this information was easily obtainable from Conky’s Sourceforge site more specifically the variable section.

The one thing I have been finding out about conky is that is is very tedious to really set it up. There is no “user friendly” GUI to configure it like the Screenlets so you have to do a lot of text editing to get it to work right. And you have to really ignore word wrap. Read the rest of this entry »

Played a little Second Life and updated the iPod. I noticed that I need to shut off the screenlets and Conky in order to play the games otherwise I get a flash where they are because the update rate.  I think the extra effects are causing slow downs as well so I shut them off when I am playing a game, but turning it all back on is simple really.

Still bummed about the mixer. Thinking of picking up a headset soon as I can. Just can’t right now. Maybe I will pull out the original USB mic I used on the show MANY moons ago.

So basically today was spent with tweaking Conky a little here and there. But mostly it was another day of sorting. And the final day might I add. Yes I got to the end of my collection!!!

Again I am happy that I am able to organize a lot better than under Windows. I feel like it’s Laundry day!

Yes that is Linux Detergent you are seeing in the picture to the right. Micro&Soft is the maker? I have seen this picture floating around the interwebs for quite some time now. I still think it’s funny.

Ok let’s get into the final day of sorting and also there are some links to some more resources I wanted to share with you all. So please, read on…

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