Objectively True

Open a terminal.

sudo apt-get install build-essential cvs subversion libglib-2.0-dev automake libtool libltdl3-dev automake1.9 autotools-dev libpopt-dev libcurl3-dev libx11-dev x11proto-xext-dev libbz2-dev libid3tag0-dev libpng12-dev libtiff4-dev libungif4-dev libjpeg62-dev libssl-dev libfreetype6-dev bison flex gettext libimlib2-dev libpam0g-dev libxml2-dev libxcursor-dev libgtk1.2-dev autoconf pkg-config libpng3-dev libxine-dev libxkbfile-dev libsqlite3-dev giblib-dev libxmu-dev libxdamage-dev libxcomposite-dev libtag1-dev libtagc0-dev giblib-dev libasound2-dev libdbus-1-dev libfontconfig-dev

Say “y” to install… then try this…

wget http://omicron.homeip.net/projects/easy_e17/easy_e17.sh

next, this:

chmod +x easy_e17.sh
./easy_e17.sh -i -e

After the install is finished, do this:

sudo nano -w /usr/share/xsessions/e17.desktop

You’ll be taken to a brand new document.  Paste this text in it:

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=E-17
Comment=
Exec=/opt/e17/bin/enlightenment_start
Icon=
Type=Application

(click your mouse from the end of this text and drag it back to the beginning to copy it, middle-click to paste in a terminal)  Then hit Ctrl + x, say “y” to save changes.

Additionally, it’s a good idea to add e17 to your PATH:

sudo nano -w /etc/environment

go to the end of the line on this file, just inside the quotation marks, and add the text “:/opt/e17/bin” (no quotation marks), then Ctrl + x, and “y” to save changes.  Log out of your desktop environment and e17 should now be an option to select from GDM/XDM/KDM/etc.

So much for getting back into the habit of “blogging”.  So much, also, for the promises of new reviews, thoughts, comments, and readings.  I have not, of late, had quite the slew of time for which I had hoped, and that which I have been afforded was spent in ways previously unanticipated.  What I have accomplished thought, is some work on a new piece of “software”–a little mysql/php-based teaching application, inspired by the illustrious pauker, and based loosely on the same Leitner cardfile method, but more adapted to my needs as a student more readily prone to a Deweyian process of education than the tedium of memorization.

In other news, I have actually begun my reviews of the Dead Science album and Appiah’s book, but both are incomplete.  My venture into Simon Critchley’s Infinitely Demanding has also begun, but I may set it aside now that I have acquired a few new postanalytical philosophy works.  Critchley was not uninformative.  Though the first 20 pages or so of his work it seemed to me held nothing particularly cogent except that which was a mere reformulation of Levinas, it seemed to simply be an attempt to come to terms in order to make a clearer point later in the work, and I will be eager to later resume my reading of Infinitely Demanding.  However, I have an alluring idea for a sustained study of postanalytic philosophy.  If this study bears any fruit, I will describe it later.