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	04-07-01 Having just spent much of the weekend rebuilding my laptop... I decided to take a nifty screenshot of my new personal account on the very same laptop! When I first got my laptop I installed RH6.2 on it. The problem is that RH is known for being more... erm... shall we say demanding on PCs than necessary. It comes with tons of services and they are all turned on! This is not the best for your average desktop and even worse for your laptop (do I need a web-server on my laptop?!) Well... having recently experienced the joys of rolling your own distro using a small distro as a base, I decided to do that with my laptop! Starting with Peanut Linux 8.4 as my base I rebuilt my laptop from scratch and now have a rather kick ass little number with the latest kernel (2.4.3, gotta love that USB support ;-), KDE (2.1.1), XFree86 (4.0.3, now officially supports my laptop's Trident chipset! No more unaccelerated SVGA for me!), and more... All in under 400 Megs installed (compared to my previous 3 Gig RH install)! My laptop went on an extreme data diet, and now it's leaner, meaner, and much sexier!
	02-02-01 YO-YO-YO.... Jez list'n to my boy Busta and wit' da kewl backdrop and werkin' on Noink's stuff. Feilin' so fly, gotz'ta take a 'shot. Now... Get outta here!
	01-28-01 My first screenshot since returning from my job at Intel. Don't know why I took it... I think I was just overjoyed at how phenomenal Everybuddy was.
	04-14-00 Doing a bit of research for a Linux Game writing project (hopefully to be turned into a book) and listenning to Weird Al. Nothing much happenning.... just like the new background as well as the general look of this screen (which is why I snapped it! ;) Anyhoo.... the background is from some anime I've not yet seen... I just liked the background enough that it didn't matter.
	04-03-00 After another trip to Digital Blasphemy, was just listenning to some Dead Can Dance (forget which song) as well as working on one of my own comic strips, /dev/null. Kind of a kewl theme I have going here on this screen.... which is why I took the image. ;)
	04-02-00 NEW Red Hat 6.2 upgrade (along with Sawmill, which, IMHO, is much better than Enlightenment... Actually, I had gotten sick of Enlightenment a few months previous, andhad been using Sawmill for quite some time before this screen shot. Let's see.... just goofing off here. Browsing my one of my web-sites (Geekcomix, Unleash Your Inner Geek), listenning to Aphex Twin's "Power Pill Pacman", and twinking around with AOL's instant messenger (which, really does blow). Any-hoo.... nothin' all that special here.....
	09-22-99 A very cool background image (Digital Blasphemy), pretty cool GTK+ theme (AfterBirth), neat looking (though functionally defunct) E-Theme (LightsDark), and what is perhaps my absolute favorite game for Linux, PySol (even over Quake 2, I'm afraid.) PySol is very well done, and I would recommend it for all Linux users (since it's in Python, I'd recommend it for all Windows, Mac, and other computer users as well...)
	08-28-99 Just showing off Quake 2... Little more. Well, I do like the E-Theme.... I forget what it is... sorry.
	07-26-99 Alright, I admit it, this one was just to show off. I found these really cool neon icons and tiles, and I wanted to see how they looked. I wound up using the Marbles E-Theme along with the AfterBirth GTK theme. The X11Amp theme was Lunatic. All-in-all, the real neat things are the neon icons and tiles.
	07-22-99 Had just gotten two cool things working (my QuickCam and my SLIRP session with my work computer) and decided to remember the occasion with a screenshot. Plus, I had re-done my theme again, this time leaving a nice cool look. The E-Theme was simplE, and the GTK was Blue Theme (again). I'm using GQCam to run my QuickCam, and, while it looks nice, I notice it runs my QuickCam at a lower frame rate than other software I've tried. Oh well... it looks the best and is the easiest to use, so I'll probably use it the most.... at least until I find something better.
	07-12-99 Teaser for LGM mainly (hmmm.... what's LGM?) Nice enough clustering of themes. Using the "Chrome" theme for Enlightenment and some sort of textured metal theme for GTK (sorry, don't remember exactly which.) Note from 02/02/01 : LGM was something that never came to fruition for me. Essentially, I thought of this boffo idea of using Linux to power a low-cost yet fairly powerful video game machine. I never did much with this other than some ideas and basic code, but two years later, Indrema happenned. So I am glad somebody did it since I didn't. I also had this variant that used bootable PC CD-ROMs with Linux images on them to make CD-ROM games that were platform independent... but I didn't do much with that either. (BTW, LGM stood for "Linux Gaming Machine"... not as creative as "Indrema", huh?)
	06-17-99 This time I was torturing myself by using the LCARS E-Theme with the Blue Theme for GTK. LCARS is really fancy, but I find it makes my system run way too slow (and I have a fairly nice system, one which certainly can handle just about all other E-Themes.) Anyway.... I thought the DKC2 and DKjr comparison was kind of cool regardless.
	06-01-99 My first screenshot since upgrading to 2.2. Again, I was working on yet another logo for my system. This time there is a definite Star Wars influence on my desktop, from the logo I'm making to the background image to my E-theme (which is Jedi and can be found at http://e.themes.org/). I'm running Blender, Gimp, Mappy (XMame), xv, and checking my system notes folder. Oh... I'm also listenning to a CD. The funny thing about this is that everything was working fine, then when I started up a GTerm to take the snap shot, the GTerm went nuts, consuming 98% of my CPU time! Darnedest thing. I killed the GTerm and started up a more reliable ETerm. Moral of the story: Gnome is cool, but don't trust it's terminal emulators!
	02-01-99 This was my first screenshot ever on my home machine. I was tweedling around with Gimp (making one of my many logos for my home system) while the soothing sounds of Doom played in the background. I thought of running XMame to check on the slowdown (not apparent, though system load says otherwise). The result was something I must have been impressed with at the time, because I took a screenshot of it.
	02-01-99 Taking the experiment started in the above shot further, I decided to really try to max-out my system with as many game and game-like things as I could (don't try this in Windows!) I eventually had 6 XMame windows, Chomp, LinCity, and LXDoom. Curiously, the most evident slow down was in the tiny Star Wars window at the center of the screen. Star Wars had grinded to almost a halt, and yet Doom and Captain Commando both ran at moderate speeds. This wasn't what I would have expected, as I would have thought Doom and Captain Commando would have slowed down long before their less graphical cousin.

Work Desktop Screenshots

06-03-99 My work machine from when I worked at the U of A Physics Dept. had much less exciting things happening on it. Here, I'm busy compiling some junk elsewhere (on other virtual windows) while I'm finding information on gdm. We switched to RH 6.0 on all our Linux machines the summer of 1999, and gdm's automatic configuration allows general console users certain options we don't want them to have, such as halting and rebooting the system (imagine the hell we'd get if a machine was being used by several telnet sessions, had some programs running, and was halted by an unknowing console user during some break when we weren't here!!)