Mouse theme on various linux desktops

Since I started to use laptops with small screens I ve found a bit probematic to track where the heck is the mouse cursor, mind most of them they have a native resulution like 1360x768 everyting less makes them useful for terminal apps only, try to use the web on 800x60, its not 90s anymore and the motherfuckers web designers put every shit on the web pages....

To say the truth the only DE in linux , so far I managed to have mouse cursor consistency is KDE!

This can be possible for other DE like xfce, but the most of the distros use the cocksucking lightdm !!
So, I usually install a different login manager like slim .. problem solved!

FPGA vs Emulators...

Just I grabbed the Xmas opportunity and organised a meeting with friends, you know typical stuff like beer, bs food and retro consoles. Just our conversation went to FPGAs vs Emulators, as we had a MIST there and one guy brought his DE2 , quite a beast btw.

Well, the winner is ... EMULATORS! Believe it not, the "emulation" on the FPGA (cores) is not better than an emulator that is running on a pc.

Just compare the Hatari (Windows) or Steem SSE (windows) with the core on the MIST, well some guy demonstrated the MIST's AtariST high speed and an high-mono screen mode, some limited I can say as the Hatari (1.8.0) can even have 040, high speed (from 32Mhz to FastForward pressing Alt+X) and better VDI resolutions up to 16 colors.
In addition the Hatari can read MSA and STX images and play ALL of the ST Demos, something that is impossible on MIST (ST core) now!

Some examples:

Apple2 emulator (AppleWin) vs the Apple2 emul on MIST , just limited to a format of disk images that I never bothered to convert all of my .dsk images to .nib

C64, WinVICE 64  that supports a hell of peripherals like Carts and 4 drives like 1541, 1581 vs a core that just loads PRG.

ZX Spectrum, Fuse (what else!) has a jawdrop features incl. divide vs the ZX Spectrum core that just loads TAP (tape images , not even TZX) with REAL TAPE speed!!

NES, MESS vs a core that is not compatible 100% with the NES.

ZX81, EightyOne vs the core that can only run standalone programs (dot P) not even full tape images.

Amiga,  WinUAE with PPC support vs the current core that just matured to support AGA, with some issues and just 68020 the maximum CPU can handle.

Just my mate Jake told me the FPGAs are nice because its a instant turn-on / run the core / play, well that's correct, but at the same time my wii can have a hell of emulators too! Also, what my friend Jake forgot to tell me is that he TRIED 3 different monitors till to find one that is compatible with all of the cores! LOL now.

I know there is some FPGA called FPGAarcade, a bit pricey I think and with limited availability , but you can have a 060 , seems useful only for Amiga core, but I bet it will have its limitations like the other FPGA devices there.

Hatari ... in a browser!

Yes,  its true, now you can have an ST in the browser (Firefox for now, as the emulator is crawling under chrome... LOL) for more info: http://absencehq.de/union/

DX Forth

This is news now... the nice DX Forth had an update to v 4.08 just a few days ago...

Firefox sync : what the fuck is going on?!

I had the idea that Opera was the only browser that the Sync is in fact Shit, really.
Now as I can see, I am unable to proper sync firefox bookmarks between 3 different systems.

Then I found on the sync logs that the shit cannot be sync because "Could not authenticate: No keyFetchToken" and the 'nice' of this story is there was not even a fucking VISIBLE notification error message, instead I had to dig into those shit logs, thanks to the fucking idiot(s) firefox dev(s) that is(are) involved with the (shit)sync procedure.

Editing Savegame of Icewind Dale: Enhanced Edition, on OSX

Its just a couple of days that we got the Icewind Dale: Enhanced Edition, for the mac.
Its a nice game, and we enjoy it, the only problem is that save game editors for this game (Baldur's Gate save games) are for PC's only.

I found so far that the (windows) program EE Keeper can be run under wine , but it asks for the installation folder. After some trial and error I found that this works very well under OSX :

First of all setup the wine (wine config) so the Z: drive is the root (/) of the mac, then launched the EE Keeper and configure the installation folders as:

Installation Directory: 

Z:\Applications\IcewindDale.app\Contents\Resources\

User Save Data Directory:
Z:\Users\user01\Documents\Icewind Dale - Enhanced Edition\save\

(The game save files are located under the user's Documents)

Also enable the option "Use Custom Save Location"

so simple, as the EE Keeper, just needs to access the Resources files from the game.

FileZilla , the nice FTP client that serves you with malware

I used FileZilla since the version 1..something, then later its developers started to follow what the cnet and some other losers do : free malware "offers" into the installer, like the mackeeper or PUP.optional , or whatever shit they put.

Way better alternatives: FireFTP , Cyberduck or better : ncftp ;-)