Another Shot

I took this one while ago while playing around with ideas for DSL4 logos and wallpaper. I was going to include it on the page from this morning, but blogsavy isn’t letting me edit files today.

Quote of the Day

This one made me laugh pretty good:
I have compiled a kernel, it’s just that I was not successful.
–nipun_jain (DSL forums)
It’s either-or, not a shade of grey.

Latest Screenshot

I’ve added another page with a screenshot. Nothing fancy. If anything, it’s a few steps back from the direction I’ve been going.
I hope to have more time for blogging and working on more Rox stuff in the next couple weeks. Things have been really hectic the last month.

In Praise of “Obsolete” Computers

I came across an article comparing a MacPlus (circa 1986) and a brand new AMD DualCore. The benchmarks are timings focused on user experience — boot times, performing data manipulation in Excel, and performance running Word.
The two decade-old MacPlus — with its 8mhz chip and 4MB RAM (maxed out for this comparison) — performed admirably [...]

Even More Rox Shots

I changed icons again and just uploaded more screenshots.

Tux Mounts

I edited together several different sets of mountable overlays for rox. This is the set I’m using currently.

Added bcrypt Page

I’ve added a page about using bcrypt across different platforms. Since it’s highly portable (~125kb for the Windows version with zlib.dll) and very easy to use, there’s no excuse to not carry and use it to encrypt files and avoid scares like these on laptops and USB keys.

Edited More New Folder Icons

I edited some new folder icons for rox yesterday using GIMP. This is just a small selection of different colored folders. I’m still trying to decide which looks best on a light background since I’m not running a high-end lib to smooth out the edges (they look great on darker colors — especially black on [...]

More About Rox

I’ve been very busy the past week, but I found time to put together a page about rox and application directories.

One More Screenshot

I added another shot on the second screenshot page. This one is basically the same as the previous one but has a different oroborus theme, shows the new (bigger) icons for my mount points (and different mount/mounted icons), and new icons in the rox-filer toolbar.