March 2008 Archives

I've installed about two weeks ago the new Ubuntu 8.04 Beta. Since then i've been busy with work and i did not managed to change the way it looks, to make it the way i like it.

Today I've browsed gnome-look in search for a theme i could use and found Aurora GTK Engine
that comes with three nice themes by default. Since there is no ubuntu package for this i will show you how to compile this engine and install it from source.

1. Install dependencies:
sudo apt-get install build-essential libgtk2.0-dev

2. Download the files from here

3. Extract the archive
tar jxvf Aurora-1.4.tar.bz2
tar zxvf aurora-1.4.tar.gz

4. Install process
cd aurora-1.3/
./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-animation
make
sudo make install

5. Ok, now we have the engine installed and we can install the themes. They come into the  gtkrc_themes.tar.bz2 archive. To install the themes, just open System -> Appearance and drag and drop the archive in the Appearance window.

That's it :) 

I'm not very organized when it comes to working with money. When i go shopping I spend without thinking that i might need money in a few days to pay bills or grocery. That's why I'm thinking to launch a service to help people that as myself need to be reminded that in 2 days the electric bill is due and so on.
 
The service will have basic money management features (money going in, money getting out, savings).