OzMargot's Chronicle

New Krusader 2.0.0 is now KDE4 ready You can download the latest available Krusader-2.x from SVN with the next command: $ svn co https://krusader.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/krusader/trunk/krusader_kde4 You can also download the latest beta version from their site Install instructions ...

I was trying for hours to make hibernate work after moving from a swap partition to a swapfile. It seems that uswsups doesn't support this. Either you need to use suspend2 or use a swap partition. Hope this saves some people some hassle

With Fusion-Icon you can switch between availbale window managers and decorations, reload Compiz and change parameters of Compiz You can simply install it by sudo apt-get install fusion-icon

Forlong's Blog has a nice article about the Compiz-Check script.

And again I experience a problem with the virtual terminals, this time with Hardy. I've already posted when I didn't have any virtual terminals in Gutsy. To fix the new issue, the only temporary fix is to type in the tty1 setupcon . For any further details you can refer to the bug Blank tt ...

Whenever I hear about the Burning Man festival, I am always reminded of the otherworldly marketplaces of Neil Gaiman. This travel piece is no exception, and made me put Black Rock City on my temporally-transient-places-to-go list.

The Chaser boys have just posted a note on their website saying that they're looking for Extras in Sydney tomorrow, Thursday 21 August 2008.

What impact will the rebirth of Russia have on global stability? Op-ed from the former deputy director of US central intelligence.

Sari Nusseibeh has been president of Al Quds University in Jerusalem, Israel, since 1995 and also teaches philosophy there. Nusseibeh has long been committed to peace in the Middle East. His book Once Upon a Country: A Palestinian Life has recently been published in paperback by Picador.

Anne comes every Wednesday from 9 to 2 to the community center in Shu'fat refugee camp to help the Palestinian women and men undergo physical therapy treatment. She has been a professional physical therapist for twenty three years, specializing in a technique called integrative manual therapy. She ...

For 10 million Palestinian Christians and Muslims worldwide, Israel's 60-year anniversary is nothing to celebrate. It is a time for mourning and remembrance. Not because Israel is Jewish and the Palestinians are "anti-Semitic," but because Israel's establishment has meant Palestine's total destruc ...

Among Alan's photographic souvenirs from his television reporting days for ITN and the BBC's Panorama programme, one picture is particularly dear to him. It is that of Golda Meir with an inscription in her own hand. It says, "To a good friend, Alan Hart." The English gentile thinks he was the only ...

France will slash 54,000 defense jobs and boost funding for space- and land-based military intelligence, according to a new strategy aimed at adapting the country's forces to evolving threats. President Nicolas Sarkozy will present the plan - the biggest review of France's defense posture in 14 y ...

On 28 March 2008, Air Chief Marshal A.G. Houston, AC, AFC, Chief of the Defence Force, appointed a Commission of Inquiry constituted by the Honourable T.R.H. Cole, AO, RFD, QC as President, to inquire into and report upon circumstances associated with the loss of HMAS SYDNEY (II) in November, 1941 a ...

NEOC 38 follows real life trainees completing their first six weeks of the Navy's New Entry Officers Course. Filmed at the Royal Australian Naval College and surrounding areas of Jervis Bay NSW, it is a rare and detailed insight into the life of people training to become officers in the Navy. [...]

Where was HMAS Sydney II found exactly? When will video of the wreck be available? May I attend the memorial on 24 of April? All those questions and more can be answered through the HMAS Sydney II website or information line, the Minister for Defence Science and Personnel, the Hon. Warren Snowdon, M ...

Work has begun on commemoration ceremonies for HMAS Sydney II, the Minister for Defence Science and Personnel, the Hon. Warren Snowdon MP, announced yesterday. "The national response to the discovery of the final resting place of HMAS Sydney has been overwhelming, and incredibly moving," said Mr Sn ...

In a historic day for the Royal Australian Navy and members of the Finding Sydney Foundation, the HMAS Sydney II has been found, 66 years after the entire ship's company perished following a furious engagement with the German raider HSK Kormoran in November 1941. The discovery lays to rest one of A ...