If you haven't seen the NEW Window Maker ... What are you waiting for? It's excellent, and VERY easy to install + compile. I have one problem thoguh, and that is when I press alt + tab to switch windows, it doesn't bring the window that I switched to the front automatiaclly. Any ideas on why this is?

The Most Interesting Item: Mandrake 8.1 Gaming Edition
The Most Useful Item: 8 pairs of socks
The Most Strange Item: an "All Your Base Are Belong To Us" T-Shirt (yes, they sell these)
The Coolest Item: DiskOnKey.
What about You? This article cross-linked as a comment.

Mmm... Christmas is coming. The people surrounding me are running around like total insane people, flipping out and basically just being stressed. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the holiday season a time to relax? I could be wrong, but I certainly hope not.
In other news, I would like to share with you my Very Special Window Maker Desktop. I have the Dock on the upper right corner of the screen, and the clip to the lower right. My icons appear starting at the bottom left of the screen. My dock has (in order, top to bottom): asclock, wmnet, aterm & (to launch multiple terms), wmprefs, (a couple blank spaces), xchat, gvim, gimp, gabber, kcalc, netscape, soffice. I have configured it so I never need my app menu. It is reduced to using only the configuration entries, and it is bound to the middle button. The right button is bound to the application menu.

Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year!

Having the Brunching Shuttlecock's slashbox, I noticed they had a new article. Natuarlly, I cliked on it. WMNet suggested that I was uploading massive amounts of data (I use Netscape 6). I tried it with other browsers, and it worked. I am disappointed. This article ISN'T FUNNY! Darn. Any ideas on why it was uploading megabytes of data? Any way to trace it?

An Onerous Coward put something very interesting in his .sig. If you are running Linux, you can output to the sound device (/dev/dsp). The example he had
lynx -dump www.slashdot.org > /dev/dsp
It sounds like static, but is interesting nonetheless. Hmm... wonder what my StarOffice documents sound like.
UPDATE: I tried doing it with ls /dev, and it almost sounds like music! Humm...

* m opens terminal tab, begins to play NetHack
H: m: robbing shopkeepers is fun :)
* H waits for nethack to be outlawed in .au
H: why would NH be outlawed in oz?
H: m: GTA3 has been outlawed... and nethack doesn't exactly foster a society-building image (especially if you like to go the chaotic way :)
m: I know that, but GTA3 is a theif-trainer, and NetHack is well... a text-based (sorta) RPG
n: There is no comparison
H: m: I _always_ steal stuff when I play nethack... :)
m: well...
m: I always end putting on something like a cursed ring of polymorph
m: and losing
m: game over... killed by manes
H: m: yeah... using a polymorph wand on a shopkeeper is nice... or on your pet :)

The names have been changed on the request of the people
m == me
H == a person in the room

#! /usr/bin/perl

print "WMChooser\n";
open(LIST, "/usr/share/wmchooser/wmlist") || die "AAARGH! $!! ABORT, ABORT!\n";
$bob=0;
while ([LIST]){
        chomp;
        $bob++;
        ($wmname, $wmgo)=split(/~/);
        print "$bob: $wmname\n";
        $wms{$bob}=$wmgo;
}
print "Enter Number: ";
$in=[STDIN];
chomp $in;
$wakka=$wms{$in};
system("$wakka&");

close(LIST);
die "Exiting Program\n";

made with vim and Linux

NOTE: wmlist is a file that looks like this:
wmaker~X | wmaker -display :0
so that all the respective window makers, and their commands to start them, are layed out NAME~COMMAND format, each on its own line.

Also note that I have a cool ASCII logo that doesn't display right in HTML, so I edited it out. This is a very streamlined version, compared to the one I use at home.
Woops! I Just realized that all the pointy brackets won't show! So I am using [] instead, but replace them all with pointy brackets when you use it.

UPDATE: There already turns out to be several things called wmchooser. If you can come up with a better name... I'll change the name to it.

#! /usr/bin/perl

use strict;

my $filenamenotfound=0;
my $filenum_=0;
my $ssdir="$ENV{HOME}/images";

if (-e "$ENV{HOME}/.screenshotrc"){
        open (RC, "$ENV{HOME}/.screenshotrc") ||
                die ".screenshotrc found, but cannot open!\n";
        while ([RC]){
                $ssdir=$_;
        }
} else {
        print "Cannot find .screenshotrc, using default ~/images directory...\n";
}

while (-e "$ssdir/screen$filenum_.jpg"){
        $filenum_++;
}

system ("import -window root $ssdir/screen$filenum_.jpg");

Written with vim and Linux
Replace all [] with pointy brackets.

Woohoo! Back when I was running BeOS, I had NetHack for the BeTerm. It was a lot of fun. Then a horrible catastrophy occured to the harddrive (sp?) and BeOS could not be restored. But I enjoyed it while it lasted. Numerous attempts to reinstall NetHack under Linux failed. The other day, however, I got Nethack's RPM (I use Mandrake, so sue me), and the library (Infoso, or something) required to support it. The installation went off without a hitch. Really. I've been playing it nonstop.
However, there is one minor problem with it. For some reason, my terminal emulator (as well as the all the other ones) dropped color support for NetHack and Vi (nooooooooooo), but, for some bizzare reason, left ls -color=auto intact. Any Ideas?

I also created a great GIMP logo for NetHack. mmm... the GIMP. It's pretty simplistic. I took a screenshot of an xterm running NetHack, and then overlayed
NetHack
Into the Mazes of Menace!
on top of it in really nice font.

Now I see why some people hate Slashdot. I've been bombarded with crass, annoying, malinformed, stupid, and all the other synonyms for retarded replies to most all of my comments. That Just Makes Me Mad(tm). Why Oh Why is this? Am I destined to become flamebait? Should I just stop even caring? NNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooo.... I love... Slashdot...

I've been reciving these bizarre pieces of spam who's subject line is a bunch of random non-alphanumeric characters. Never actually bothered to open one, but I would like to know if anyone else has ever actually seen this kind spam. I have several therories:
1. Japanese. The characters are Japanese, but my browser (Netscape 6) dosen't support them.
2. Freakish Computer. Maybe someone is doing this on purpose. Or his computer is infested with a virus.
3. Hotmail is on the fritz. Maybe so. It's happened before.
4. Eeevil munchkins have invaded my computer. It could happen.
5. Trick. Someone could print out a gibberish line, to entice people to open it more.
What do you think?

I used it to make a birthday card. Woohoo! I feel really special. It actually looks pretty nice, I used a bunch of Script-Fu on it (mmm... Script-Fu). Too bad /. dosen't allow img tags...