lvidmar

Reinvigorated?

Well I’ve been asked about this May 1st reboot thing quite a bit. I sounded like an interesting contest. So I made a new layout. I finally got myself to try some semi-serious work in GIMP in X11, and I’m mostly happy with how it turned out.

Keeping several of the colors from my previous design, but my CSS file was started from scratch. As far as content goes, most of it should be able to simply be included in this here “template” thingy. Only problem at this point being I’ve been up for almost 30 hours now with about 3 hours of sleep.

Needless to say this will be a work in progress for some days, but you can get a pretty good idea of what I’m trying to go for here. I haven’t decided if I’ll try to make custom thumbnails for every entry, or do the category thing again.. I almost love what’s going on in the date bar.. Any suggestions, let me know. I guess you can send to bjorn_t_skee (at) hotmail.com on either msn messenger or e-mail.

Eryxma == Shit.

So apparently when you go searching for the cheapest host available, you still get what you pay for. My previous host, Eryxma, was run by an 18 year old kid, who didn’t like to pay his datacenter bills. Long story short, some former employees have formed their own company, Glexicon, and taken over the assets of Eryxma. I have yet to see the data that once was my site.

Undoing Apple’s meddling.

Why I’m compelled to undo things that Apple changes in their UI, I’m not really sure. I like getting new things, rather than having old things rehashed and resold to me. Click this thumb for 2 screenshots of the result.

I don’t really feel like explaining every little step I did, but I will share the links of the references I used I guess.

The Mac OS X Hint – Proof of Concept, and most of the instructions.
Anatomy of a PrefPane – to customize the icons.

Also having a 10.2 machine handy gives you access to the icons from 10.2 when these preferences were seperate. And finally, I don’t think this was mentioned in the hint above, hide the original prefpane by changing permissions by u-r, or to I think 355.

Also, obligatory warning, backup any files you change, and be careful! Whenever altering system files, it’s really easy to hose your system. Enjoy 🙂