Several years ago, I heard some friends talking about portable applications in their USB’s and sth. However I wasn’t that foolish and also remember old-school times, when I had computer with CD-ROM and pirated-software from Russia, where it existed in early 90′s :D

But giving a reason why I’m posting here, I want to write about website called PortableApps.com. You can download software from here free, no fees, easy orientated design and stable uptime – you can access there any time. The only disadvantage (maybe only for me) is that there are no zipped versions to download, because it’s more comfortable for me :) But anyway, installer looks good, comfortable, doesn’t need any permissions (yes, you can install on any Win computer, even in library).

In these times, when you are studying at college you need to access your favorite applications via your memdrive. It’s an advantage, that my Greenwich Community College has lot of PCs and pretty good network (thanks to stable CISCO routers), so I don’t need to bring my short-lasting laptop – it’s really nice from college side, especially when you sold your computer to get some money (yes, also laptops sucks, I’m planning to buy a PC in those days – Linux will show up again!).

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As a long time GNU/Linux user I was trying a lot of distros and OpenSuse was one of them several years before. But now, as a laptop user I want mobility and stability of system and of course good appearance – OpenSuse team made it as well!

OpenSuse KDE 4.4 Desktop

This release is using KDE 4.4 or Gnome desktops by default, but I remain by KDE all times with OpenSuse because it’s stable as well and has a beautiful appearance, not like a ancient non-changed Gnome 2 (I’m not a hater, I’m using it with Ubuntu as well). Moreover, it has very easy installer, which has a lot of features not only for newbie users, but for advanced as well. Continue reading »

Since 10.04 release I had no problems with hardware detection on my computers, but until this week, when I installed Kubuntu 10.10 in my Acer 56o0 laptop, which has integrated Intel 945GM gpu. But only now I solve this problem only by switching off blur effect in Desktop Effects – System Settings menu (as you see in the image).

Hope this will help you, actually for better performance you can try to enable ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates f0r video card updates and of course upgrade your KDE 4.5.1 to 4.5.x by adding official Kubuntu ppa repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa to your list (hope to do this on monday, cause still don’t have network connection at home) . If you don’t know how to do it, just read more article.

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Maybe a lot of users are confused about font rendering in Linux environments? For example my favorite ones ar full hinting fonts, which I’m using a lot of years in a row. It’s not like crappy as Windows XP defaults, but not too smooth as Windows Vista+, so I think it’s a middle of the gold.

Fonts rendering

You just need to put that config into your ~/.fonts.conf (mostly there is no file like that in most desktop environments): Continue reading »

Just typing from my HTC Desire which still using Android 2.1 with WordPress app from appbrain store. I’ll upgrade it soon to OpenDesire, because it has super running performance and better battery life.

Hello mates!

First, my name is Rokas and the domain name is my surname. I’ve been born in Lithuania, but now I’m studying in London as ICT networking engineering with CISCO systems. Also I’m big fan of Open Source, I’m using Linux as main operation system for more than 5 years and my favourite apps also based on Open Source. In this blog I’ll try to explain various of things, write various interesting articles and of course put some photos and videos of my hobies and leisure. Of course don’t blame me of my excellent language,  I’ll try to make my best and make this website readable and enjoyable. Thank you :)

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