adamw’s very own blog

Reading this story on Avant Window Navigator finally prompted me to look into some of the cutting-edge panel replacement projects for GNOME. I got Avant built and working no problem, but it’s really just eye candy, it’s not really usable as a functional panel replacement yet IMHO. So I went for Gimmie instead. The ’stable’ [...]

Lazyweb, oh lazyweb…
I still don’t really understand how Linux handles swap space. One thing in particular irritates the hell out of me. I have 1.5GB of RAM, but I still occasionally manage to wind up using it all, just for a brief time while I’m running a lot of stuff, and then things start to [...]