KDE 3.4 — mighty tasty upgrade…

While debating with myself about the poor sound quality of my Monsoon speakers and then realizing I was conversing with a genius, I suddenly realized t’was not the speakers but my software that was in need of a boost… ahhh – I conjectured – my amaroK was in dire need of an equalizer… I typed in a simple Google search phrase: equalizer in amarok. Hot Bejoolie, I got answers. Gotta’ love that damn Google. The latest hot damn geewhiz GREAT new amaroK 1.2 is HERE.

Alas, I also determined I needed to upgrade KDE libs, and since my knowledge base concerning how to accomplish this is lower than my neighbor Joe’s IQ, so I thought, “HEY ROBERT, HELP ME…” and since he reads my mind, he did. Now I have this spiffy keen-o-roody KDE 3.4 which absolutely kicks ass and when a 50-year-old grandmother tells you that, well, shit ya’ll, it’s got to be true. This is absolutely gorgeous and I am not one to appreciate desktops because I never see them, I always have 4 or 10 programs open on at least 5 desktops so a screenshot of what’s currently on MY monitor would be like trying to talk to a spider monkey.

For info, go to the links. For even more info, check the other MacEwan.

And, back to the original purpose of grabbing/installing the new and improved Amarok and the need for better sound, the quest for an equalizer… Amarok 1.2 got rid of the sound of swarming insects, the plague of locusts living in my Monsoons, and the sound is crisper and much clearer.

Thanks ya’ll… now I can drown out the sound of the rednecks who live next door. They’re in love, sounds kind of a cross between cats in heat and ducks being drowned. *** Does anybody out there remember when we had to “turn off” the geewhiz geegaws that made desktops fun because we used Windows and the damn software took up too much of our resources? Then again, I have 2 gigs of RAM and a 2 gig processor.

Still, Suse and Linux and this whole non-Microsoft world has certainly improved my life… something I thought about last night as my son-in-law called because he’d acquired some insidious something that emailed his documents to other people — it is a pure joy to be out of the loop and not know what it could be. Used to be I’d say, “That’s the SoBig…” etc what does NASCAR stand for? Non Athletic Sport Centered Around Rednecks