Film #44: Straight Time

Since 1972, Dustin Hoffman had been obsessed with making Straight Time, an adaptation of ex-convict Ed Bunker's novel No Beast So Fierce. It was meant to be the actor's directorial debut but, concluding that directing and performing were chores too big for him to handle in tandem, he brought in British director Ulu Grosbard to helm things behind the camera. Good move, because in 1978's sadly

Film #44: Straight Time

Since 1972, Dustin Hoffman had been obsessed with making Straight Time, an adaptation of ex-convict Ed Bunker's novel No Beast So Fierce. It was meant to be the actor's directorial debut but, concluding that directing and performing were chores too big for him to handle in tandem, he brought in British director Ulu Grosbard to helm things behind the camera. Good move, because in 1978's sadly

Film #43: Trans

Florida filmmaker Julius Goldberger's Trans splashed down at 1999's Sundance festival like a minor post-French New Wave masterwork unearthed decades after being inturred, mysteriously, near the swampy Everglades. Plainly influenced by Truffaut's The 400 Blows -- Goldberger obviously wanted more after Antoine Doniel reached the ocean tide -- Trans follows juvenile prison escapee Ryan Kazinski (

Film #43: Trans

Florida filmmaker Julius Goldberger's Trans splashed down at 1999's Sundance festival like a minor post-French New Wave masterwork unearthed decades after being inturred, mysteriously, near the swampy Everglades. Plainly influenced by Truffaut's The 400 Blows -- Goldberger obviously wanted more after Antoine Doniel reached the ocean tide -- Trans follows juvenile prison escapee Ryan Kazinski (

Film #42: Sisters

This is the first in a promised series of shorter posts, for those of you who don't have no durn time...Made back when De Palma’s Hitchcock-cribbing packed more charm than it did in later years, Sisters stars Margot Kidder as surgically-separated Siamese twins, one of whom is degenerating into a knife-wielding killer. Jennifer Salt is the newspaper columnist who witnesses one of Kidder’s murders

Film #42: Sisters

This is the first in a promised series of shorter posts, for those of you who don't have no durn time...Made back when De Palma’s Hitchcock-cribbing packed more charm than it did in later years, Sisters stars Margot Kidder as surgically-separated Siamese twins, one of whom is degenerating into a knife-wielding killer. Jennifer Salt is the newspaper columnist who witnesses one of Kidder’s murders

Compiz and Windows Rules

Compiz is very popular for its fancy graphical effects. But there is another very useful feature in Compiz. It lets you put window on top, skip taskbar, skip pager, always below, sticky, non movable, resizeable, minimizable, closabe and so on. You must be telling so whats new you can make window sticky or always on top by right clicking the title bar and selecting always on top. Yes you can but with that you have to do so every time you open the window, with Compiz it is just one shot.

For case in point look at my audacious. It automatically starts on the bottom corner and is always on top and I can control my music whenever I want.

Go to System, Preferences, Advance Desktop Effect Settings, Window Management and Window Rules.



I dont want it on taskbar so Skip Taskbar
I dont want it to see on pager nor when Scale(alt+shift+UP) so Skip Pager
I always want it on top so Above
I want it on all the desktops so Sticky
I dont want it to minimize nor do so accidently so Non minimizable windows