Another nice Linux wallpaper.
I hope you also like this wallpaper I created.
Month: December 2011
New Ubuntu 12.04 wallpaper. Widescreen this time.
This is a nice Ubuntu/Fedora/Mint wallpaper I just created. I hope you like it.
Christian dark ages set back humanity.
The Stop Online Piracy Act is getting continued attention from Internet users like Chris Pirillo and others that are warning as many people as possible about this danger to Internet freedom that we face. The Muslim countries are trying this as well, they want to censor their web to stop porn and depravity from deprecating … Read more
Xfce desktop and speed of light broken.
I have enjoyed using the Xfce desktop in the past and Gnome 3 is good, but it is bloated and I have decided to switch to something that will not tax my poor CPU so much. The Xfce desktop environment has been around for a very long time and has grown to be a worthy … Read more
More useful UNIX commands.
Time a UNIX command. the time(1) command will tell you how long it took for a command to execute. ubuntu ~ $ sudo time find / -name dpkg.log /var/log/dpkg.log 0.82user 1.82system 0:34.04elapsed 7%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 2260maxresident)k 679328inputs+0outputs (2major+4374minor)pagefaults 0swapsubuntu ~ $ sudo time find / -name dpkg.log /var/log/dpkg.log 0.82user 1.82system 0:34.04elapsed 7%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 2260maxresident)k 679328inputs+0outputs (2major+4374minor)pagefaults … Read more
Dick Smith Electronics selling used hard drives as new. Ooops.
Dick Smith Electronics, a major Australian retailer have been accused of selling used and malware infected hard drives as new, endangering the computers owned by consumers. In one instance a preacher bought an external hard drive and when he plugged it in he was greeted by a pornographic video. You would think they would be … Read more
Help Mike out, watch this, download it and upload it everywhere, and share it!
Please share and like this video. This is an important message for all Internet users!
GoDaddy.com supporting online censorship.
The website hosting company GoDaddy are publicly supporting the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA. This bill would condemn any website that is hosting or linking to copyright infringing material. GODaddy supports the SOPA bill that they say will be protecting the intellectual property of hard-working Americans, U.S. business and the American public from the … Read more
MPAA releases list of copyright infringing websites.
The MPAA have released a lit of websites they say are supporting online piracy, these include the obvious torrent websites, they are also targeting the video streaming websites used to stream copyrighted movies and music. The Rapidshare website has been left out of this list for now, considering the fact that they are wielding more … Read more
Software bloat creating hardware obsolescence?
The Linux experience is more advanced now than ever before, with the advent of even more advanced software that is getting better and better than the old software applications that Linux users were using in the very old days of Linux distributions like Slackware and Redhat Linux 6.2. There is a little bloat creeping into … Read more
Gnome 3 will not span across dual monitors properly. Fix this Gnome!
This is what Gnome 3 looks like on dual monitors, the wallpaper is spanned across both screens on the wide desktop but the Gnome panels are stuck on one screen. This is one of the consequences of developing a desktop for touch devices that can not use dual screens, you only see these bugs on … Read more
Ubuntu software centre to support Paypal payment method.
The Ubuntu software centre is to support Paypal payment methods in the future. There are applications like Ultra-edit that are available for Linux but are only a 30 day trial and this will allow users to pay for the application and keep using it for ever by purchasing it using their Paypal address. This is … Read more
The missing parts of Gnome 3/Gnome Shell.
The Gnome configuration GUI seen in Gentoo that Gnome 3 is missing.Sure the Gnome 3 desktop with some additions is very nice indeed, it is my preferred Linux desktop now, over Lxde & Fluxbox. I have some additions that make the desktop look like the Gnome 2 desktop of old, whilst keeping the Gnome 3 … Read more
The possible future of the Internet under SOPA?
Is this the future of the Internet after the Stop Online Piracy Act comes into force? Users having to purchase a set package that includes access to a selection of websites and a 500 Megabyte cap with 2 Gigabytes added with each recharge. That would not last long if you want to stream television shows … Read more
Matrix style skill uploading to your brain to be possible.
According to this article, the technology shown in the Matrix movie where the characters downloaded new skills into their brains through a neural link has been invented using current technology. This is using an Magnetic Resonance Machine to capture the brain activity associated with performing a certain task and then transferring the data to someone … Read more
Gnome 2 styled layout in Gnome Shell.
To get a nice Gnome 2.32.1 styled desktop layout in Gnome 3 install the files from the tarball hosted on this website and then restart Gnome Shell to enable the bottom panel and a Gnome 2 styled Gnome menu. http://intgat.tigress.co.uk/rmy/extensions/index.html. The resulting desktop will look like the example to the right, my Fedora 15 Gnome … Read more
Fedora 17 Gnome 3 desktop to enable software rendering.
Fedora 17 will have a Gnome 3 desktop that will support software rendering as well as keeping support for 3D hardware, this will enable use of the new Gnome interface on older machines that do not include support for hardware rendered interfaces, which the current build of Gnome 3 certainly is. BTRFS will be the … Read more
Simplest hello world program I can think of.
int main() { write(1, "Hello world.\n", 14); return 0; }int main() { write(1, "Hello world.\n", 14); return 0; } Can you think of any simpler C example?
RSS Feed fixed.
I have replaced the files in the Twenty Ten theme with my own index.php and associated files and did some PHP hacking and the feed is working! I wish I knew about this before, but the thread here: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-indexphp-invalidates-rss-feeds gave me this idea.
Voyager probe leaving Solar System.
The Voyager probe that left Earth 34 years ago is now leaving the Solar System altogether and moving into a huge cloud of matter that is surrounding our Solar System. The craft’s batteries have enough power to keep the venerable craft operating until anno 2020. The fact that the computers are still working and processing … Read more