2008 ~ My Ramblings

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Moving the "My Documents" folder in Windows

9:20 AM Ben No comments

You might be asking "why would I want to do this?" Well for one it'll save space on your hard drive that it's originally located on and second in case your Windows partition ever becomes corrupted you won't have to worry about losing all of you personal documents. To do this follow these steps:

1. Right click My Documents and click Properties.

2. Click the Move button under the Target tab. This will bring up a second dialog box like the one below:

Select Destination Dialog (move My Docs Howto)

(Click the picture for larger view)

3. From that second dialog box you need select where you want the folder moved to. Select your choice and click OK.

4. Click apply in the My Documents Properties dialog box.

Wait for your files to transfer to your new destination and your finished. Pretty simple huh? ;)

Optimus Keyboard

4:54 AM Ben No comments

Here's the preliminary report:

The OLED displays look really good, and are bright and colorful, just like we'd hoped.

Key changes were instant (or almost) in Windows mode, but had a slight delay in Mac mode, where some key bindings were also little out of whack. These are known issues, though, and are being worked on.

The keyboard itself is friggin massive, and very sturdy-feeling. The thing is a tank.

Replacing keys is pretty easy, but larger keys are more difficult to pull off. You're really only intended to replace the standard-sized keys, so far as we can tell.

Typing on it, well, sucks. We kind of hate to say it, but this thing more than likely won't replace what ever keyboard you're writing your novel on -- it's better off used as an absurdly configurable swiss army knife for tasks like gaming, Photoshop, or just about any other productivity app that doesn't require a lot of typing.

Okay, why does typing on the Optimus suck, you ask? Well, although the keyboard uses mechanical switches and a lot of high quality components (evident when we pulled off some keys), and there is some clicky tactility to keypresses, as a whole it just requires way too much force to depress keys. And the larger the key, the more force is required, so enter is easier than space, but harder than tab. Let's put it this way, we sit around and type all day long and this thing wore us out in about 30 seconds to a minute. Carpal sufferers, beware.

The Configurator is everything we hoped it'd be and more. The ability to paint directly onto the keyboard maps with the image editor of your choice is most excellent. Mapping keyboards to applications and conditions is ridiculously easy. Not everything was working properly though, since we were testing early beta software.

We'll have some video in a bit. We so can't wait for people to start getting their keyboards so we can benefit from their wacky layouts.

source: Engadget

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Cleaning up a Ubuntu GNU/Linux system

5:13 AM Ben No comments

If you want to clean your ubuntu machine you need to follow these simple steps to remove all unnecessary junk files.

Remove Residual Config packages

In Synaptic Package Manger, there is a built-in feature that gets rid of old Residual Config packages. Residual Config packages are usually dependency packages that are left behind after you uninstall a package from your machine. To use this feature, go to System > Administration > Synaptic Package Manager. On the bottom left hand corner of the window,

Custom Computer Build

11:17 AM Ben 1 comment

So seeing as this old laptop doesn't have what I need anymore I've decided to bite the big one and attempt to build my own computer. I don't know when I'll have the money to do it but hopefully soon. Here's what I plan to include in my build: