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National Service Secretariat, why?

Kwame — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:15:15 +0000

I finally got round to filling my National Service forms online and I just so happened to notice that their website sucked. A lot. What about it sucked? Well… First of all, clicking on the enrollment link causes two windows to pop up. One of the windows contains a form that accepts a PIN number [...]

Replacing HP QuickPlay with XBMC(or any other application)

Kwame — Sat, 09 May 2009 21:12:18 +0000

I love my HP dv6915nr. It’s not the fastest or prettiest notebook around but it does most of what I want it to and does it quite well. However, one of the things that I hate is the bundled HP Quickplay software, which like the name suggests allows you to access your media very quickly. [...]

Taking the plunge: Jaunty

Kwame — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 04:50:15 +0000

Around 4am this morning, I finally decided to take the plunge and upgrade my Ubuntu installation to Jaunty.(Yes, I know the release date is tomorrow but I just can’t wait anymore). The simplest way to go about that is to hit Alt-F2 and then run: update-manager -d That will add the necessary repositories and perform [...]

Restoring Default Metacity button layout

Kwame — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:59:02 +0000

I wanted to try out the GlassyBleu theme that gets bundled with HP’s version of Ubuntu(MIE) for netbooks. However, after applying the theme, I noticed something was off: [singlepic=29,320,240,,center] I had been using the Mac4Lin theme previously and as you have probably noticed, OSX’s window decoration layout is a bit unique. To restore the settings [...]

And now back to our regular progamming…

Kwame — Sun, 25 May 2008 18:28:55 +0000

It’s been a while since I posted anything to HS. School work and other personal issues have been taking up so much of my time recently. Have a backlog of posts sitting on my drive that I will be uploading shortly.

Tratech Project

Kwame — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 04:02:18 +0000

It's another academic year at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. I've decided that this semester, I really have to be a bit more vocal in open-source advocacy. So I have decided to build an student oriented "mini-distro" off Ubuntu. I want the distro (which I'm calling Techbuntu till I can find a better name) to have the following: