There is more news on the Ubuntu front, the distribution has been spotted on the ABC TV Extreme makeover television show. Sure this is just another mindless reality television show, but it is cool that they put Ubuntu out in the open on a popular television show like this. And there is a new LightDM … Read more
A first look at the Ubuntu Quantal Quetzal Alpha 3 build. The alpha 3 of the Quantal Quetzal Ubuntu distribution is out and this video showcases the new features.
Nice Cinnamon themes for Linux Mint 13 Maya. http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=147807 Eleganse-Elementary dark themes for Cinnamon. http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Mictlan+gnome+shell+%26+cinnamon+theme+?content=149542. Mictlan Gnome Shell and Cinnamon theme. http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/GoldieBluez?content=150586. GoldieBluez Gnome & Cinnamon theme. http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/GoldieBluez?content=150586. AnTaRtIkA Gnome Shell and Cinnamon theme. http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Hacktivist+-+Cinnamon+Theme?content=148598. Hacktivist Cinnamon theme. http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Elementary+Style+-+Gnome-Shell%2BCinnamon?content=145727. Elementary styled Gnome Shell and Cinnamon theme. http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Smooth+Purple+-+Cinnamon+Theme?content=148725. Smooth Purple Cinnamon theme.
On Slashdot they have a story about the fall of the Gnome desktop, the team is losing members and the other desktops such as KDE and Cinnamon are taking over. Just as the Unity desktop is the death of the Ubuntu distribution, the Gnome 3 desktop will be the straw that breaks the camels back … Read more
The Ubuntu 12.10 distribution is having some problems with the apt package management right now, but the overall feel of the Unity desktop in the latest build is very nice indeed. I can not install any packages with the apt-get command at all, this is a recognised bug with the Ubuntu 12.10 distribution, hopefully this … Read more
Ubuntu 12.10 Nautilus file manager. The all new look. Do you like this look or not? I just installed the latest Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal ISO and this is the all new look of the Nautilus file manager. Ubuntu 12.10 is quite impressive, I installed the distribution from the Live CD by running ubiquity –no-bootloader … Read more
To view the contents of an ISO image, the isoinfo command for Linux will come in very useful indeed. Just type isoinfo -f -i myiso.iso to view the contents of the ISO image as shown in this example. C:\MEDIA\ELEMENTS\FILES\ISOS> isoinfo -f -i linuxmint-11-gnome-dvd-64bit.iso /BOOT /CASPER /EFI /ISOLINUX /MD5SUM.TXT;1 /PRESEED /_DISK /BOOT/GRUB /CASPER/FILESYSTEM.MANIFEST;1 /CASPER/FILESYSTEM.MANIFEST_DESKTOP;1 /CASPER/FILESYSTEM.SIZE;1 /CASPER/FILESYSTEM.SQUASHFS;1 … Read more
http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/GnomishGray?content=149193&PHPSESSID=4d672c87c3867429f5197e1ab6ab7851. Gnomish Grey. An excellent GTK 3.0 theme. http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Zukini?content=147431. Zukini. This is another very cool GTK 3.0 theme. This may not work with Gnome Shell 3.5, so if you are running Ubuntu 12.10, you are out of luck. But it also includes a theme for the Awesome Window manager, so that is a nice bonus. … Read more
The Sandisk USB 3.0 flash disk offers a massive capacity for a reasonable price. With a transfer rate of 190 Megabytes per second, this drive will be able to copy large files to and fro with a minimum of waiting time. On Amazon, this drive retails for US$79.88, this is an incredible price for a … Read more
A very obfuscated C program. typedef unsigned char t;t*F="%c",l[]="|\\/=_ \n](.\0(),*(.(=(}*.)[[*.",N=’\n’,* r;typedef(*H)();extern H Ar;Q(a){return(a|-a)>>31;}H S(c,a){return(H)(a&~c|(int )Ar&c);}extern t*ist;V(t*u){*u^=*u&2^(*u>>7)*185;}Z(t*u,t n){*u-=n;}e(t c,H h){ R(h,Q(* r^c));} I(){r=l +7-4*Q( getchar ()^*l); }R(H h, int c){Ar=S (c,h);- main() ;}P(){r ++;}z() { O(&N);} O(t*c){ printf( F,+*c); }T(){r= "This is not a function\n" ;}w(U){ U=Z(r,8 ); r-=~Q(* r/8-4); return 0; }M(){r= ist-68; } h(){t … Read more
Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) Daily Build. quantal-desktop-amd64.iso. Download the AMD64 ISO and see what you think of the latest Ubuntu distribution.
If you are just getting started with Linux, then this will be helpful. If you are moving from an Ubuntu installation to a Linux Mint one, then you will need to download an ISO image from here: http://www.linuxmint.com/download.php/ then burn it to a DVD. The command below will use the wodim command to burn the … Read more
The space race is heating up, there are a few private enterprise spacecraft that have been unveiled and the Moon looks like a likely destination in the future. In the 1980`s we had a more hopeful vision of the future, it did not include terrorism and constant warfare. But with the successful docking of the … Read more
http://www.securitronlinux.com/bejiitaswrath/another-lovely-linux-wallpaper-this-one-will-suit-any-ubuntulinux-mint-or-even-a-gentoo-desktop/. A lovely photograph of a dam on a riverbend. This is a lovely photograph. http://www.securitronlinux.com/bejiitaswrath/lovely-dark-lagoon-photograph-wallpaper-for-ubuntu-i-hope-you-enjoy-this-picture/. A photograph of a lagoon taken late in the evening. This photograph uses a long exposure to create a lovely atmosphere. http://www.securitronlinux.com/bejiitaswrath/nice-linux-mint-13-wallpaper-i-just-created-old-abandoned-house-on-a-hill/ Old farmhouse on a hill, this wallpaper is awesome. http://www.securitronlinux.com/bejiitaswrath/landscape-linux-wallpaper-i-created-i-hope-you-find-this-useful/. A landscape photograph with The Rock in … Read more
The Solid State Drives that are now available, with no moving parts compared to a traditional hard disk are the faster alternative to the traditional hard disk drives that are taking over as very fast boot drives. They do not have the capacity of a traditional hard disk, an SSD is available in a 128 … Read more
Valve are planning to release a Linux version of the online Steam service allowing users of the many disparate Linux distributions to play the many games available on the Steam service. Older games such as Doom are available for Linux, but the actual IWADs that allow you to play the original Doom, Ultimate Doom and … Read more
Viewing information about network connections and devices is easy with the netstat -a command. The -i parameter allows you to view the information about your network adapters, the transmitted and received packets and the number of transmitted and dropped packets. flynn@ubuntu:~$ netstat -i Kernel Interface table Iface MTU Met RX-OK RX-ERR RX-DRP RX-OVR TX-OK TX-ERR … Read more
The me-tv software for Linux Mint 13 Maya was not working for me, but I found out that if you download this tarball: https://launchpad.net/debian/+archive/primary/+files/me-tv_1.3.7.orig.tar.gz and install it by running the commands below. ./autogen.sh make make install./autogen.sh make make install Then the software will work. The new version 2.00 release is broken, the client-server model does … Read more
