who are you?

utorrent? really? what's the problem with transmission?

qalculate
best calculator in pretty much any OS
(the screenshots look fugly, but that's because of the dude's theme)


gnome do
quicksilver-style launcher, with a pretty innovative dock mode

just to put it in context:
the first set is for a popular sensationalist newspaper.
the second set is for an economics newspaper.

why either of them is in english is a mystery to me.

^^ eh?

i like the top part. the monospaced font and small titles are not working, however

By Etchalon: Poll the server ever X seconds and ask "are there any new posts since" some timestamp.

they probably just use triggers, since polling every possible thread would be wasteful.

edit: oh, i hadn't read jake's reply. triggers would save some traffic and processing, nonetheless

you must have it. you probably know this, but just to be sure: things that start with a dot (like ".gconf") are hidden. so you should use "view hidden files" in nautilus, or do an "ls -a" in the console.

if you don't have the file (or is it the entire folder branch?) i assume you have some problem with your gconf. try opening gconf-editor and navigating to desktop/gnome/interface to see if it complains at all.

do an "ls -a" in your old home and your new one to compare. that's what the diff was for (except diff goes into subdirs as well), but i suppose checking the first level with this is already enough.

just for kicks, take a look at your gnome settings by manually looking at the file ~/.gconf/desktop/gnome/interface/%gconf.xml . See if your theme settings are all there.

well, try logging off then on: ctrl+alt+Backspace

oh ok. so you own those files.

i'm talking about this

drwx------ 2 root root 16384 2008-02-07 15:38 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x 65 nicolas nicolas 4096 2008-02-07 21:52 nicolas

but for everything inside your home/nicholas folder.

oh, maybe it's still permissions. do a

ls -al ~

and see if the files and folders there belong to you. your username should be in the two middle columns.

first i thought you had permission issues. then i thought maybe a few files weren't transferred, or got corrupted or something (that's what the diff was for).

so, which settings are not loading? the gnome ones?

use lowercase r

do this

diff -r /youroldhome/nicolas /home/nicholas

paste the output here if it's not too long. (i'm assuming you didn't delete your old home folder...) you would like this to output nothing.

do this:

ls -l /home

check if your home dir is owned by you, and if the permissions are drwxr-xr-x

also, that tutorial is old. you shouldn't do the fstab the way they do it. you should use uuids because they are more robust against changing hd ordering.

oh, wait. is your partition mounting correctly?

do this:

ls /dev/?d*

to see what devices are in your system. one of those (something like sda2 or hda2) is your new partition. to find out which one, do a

df -h

this will give you the free disk space on every mounted partition. your new partition is the one that is not there.

then follow the stuff i wrote above. make sure after steps 1-3 you can see the stuff in your partition.

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