Had enough of Lycos

I've had enough of Lycos, so I'm moving away from them. Their mail is so slow with irritating pop-up ads. The web space is OK, but produces bad HTML and irritating pop-ups. I'm migrating this blog over to the google space too.

X11 Fixed

Further to my prevous blog, I managed to fix X11 to it's former glory by removing the X11 user receipt and installing it again. I then used Pacifist to install the update from 10.4.3.

Xdarwin on Tiger for OpenOffice.org2.0

As you will see from the pictures you can run OpenOffice.org through XDarwin on Mac OS X Tiger. I would however recommend that you use Apples X11 instead as it is more up to date, is more reliable and has a nicer look and feel.

I am now left with the annoying X11 behaviour, even after reverting to my backup of the X11 files, so I take it that there is some hidden config file somewhere. Hopefully I'll be able to get the Apple X11 behaviour (windowing environment) back soon as I miss it.

A few other notes though.

You need to install X11 through your Tiger DVD. Then, if your using a machine that came out with a version of Mac OS X before 10.4.3 run the 10.4.3 updater. There are numberous reports about the fact that 10.4.4 does not contain the update for X11.

How about the Trolley bus instead of the Edinburgh Tram

See my letter to the Evening News at: http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/letters.cfm? id=155522006

EyeTV 2 now available

EyeTV 2 looks like a fantastic improvement over previous versions. I can't wait until I have looked out the proof of purchase coupon.

Additional Mailbox with yahoo

With Yahoo Mail, you can now have an additional mailbox that is attached to your current Mailbox. Great I can now have my ideal mailbox name: shaun.mcdonald!

Expose for Firefox tabs

There is a neat little extension that enables you to use expose on the tabs in Firefox. Works a wonder for the 8KB file!