Monthly Archives: September 2011

Linux is everywhere.

Posted on September 27, 2011 by Admin — No Comments ↓

Linux is truly everywhere, even on the airlines. This is a photograph taken on Vietnam airlines where the entertainment system appears to be running a variant of Red Hat Linux. The system is booting up and loading the kernel and…

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Microsoft redeveloping OLE?

Posted on September 24, 2011 by Admin — No Comments ↓

Microsoft are developing a new way for applications to communicate with each other and share files such as images or sound betwixt programs such as a photo editor or a sound editing application. A URL for instance can be automatically…

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Useful C++ snippet. A better way to read in a sentence with STDIN.

Posted on September 24, 2011 by Admin — No Comments ↓

This is a very useful C++ code snippet for reading in a line of text into STDIN. Hopefully this will be useful to someone. #include <iostream> #include <string.h> #include <sstream> using namespace std; int goku(void) { cout << "Hello, Please…

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Testdisk data recovery is very easy indeed.

Posted on September 22, 2011 by Admin — No Comments ↓

I have recently corrupted a hard disk on my machine by accidentally typing fdisk -I /dev/ads:12 in FreeBSD and overwriting the partition table. Therefore I am using testdisk from http://www.cgsecurity.org. I got this installed on Sabayon by typing emerge testdisk…

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Gnome 3 traditional layout in Ubuntu 11.10?

Posted on September 22, 2011 by Admin — 2 Comments ↓

This is a good question, should they add the traditional Gnome 3 layout in Ubuntu 11.10? Linux Mint are staying with the traditional layout when they switch to Gnome 3 and Ubuntu should keep the traditional layout as well, the…

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New transistor can interface with living tissue.

Posted on September 21, 2011 by Admin — No Comments ↓

Scientists have created a novel new transistor that can interface with living tissue. This will lead naturally to cybernetic implants rather like those in Deus Ex, with many positive implications for medicine. Allowing cybernetic eyes for the blind to help…

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Australian labour government totally hopeless.

Posted on September 20, 2011 by Admin — No Comments ↓

If cloud computing is to take off then we need faster and more reliable Internet connections to able to E-Commute and have less people on the roads in the mornings and more people working from home. That would ease the strain…

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windows 8 alpha leak september 2011.

Posted on September 16, 2011 by Admin — No Comments ↓
Windows 8 Metro User Interface.

The alpha build of Windows 8 has been leaked onto the world wide web. The previews are available here: http://dev.windows.com/, later today. They are incomplete developer builds, so do not expect to be able to install these and run your…

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Desktop Linux still a very good and secure operating system.

Posted on September 15, 2011 by Admin — No Comments ↓

As I type this, the kernel.org website is still down and the Linux kernel is still hosted on Github instead. What is going on here? This attack on software freedom, possibly perpetrated by Microsoft shills that want everyone to be stuck on closed…

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Desktop Linux under attack.

Posted on September 12, 2011 by Admin — 2 Comments ↓

The recent attacks on Desktop Linux enacted by the cracking of the Kernel.org website and the more recent attacks against the Linux Foundation websites has cast a cloud over desktop Linux. The Kernel.org website is still down for maintenance and…

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