A recent experiment by the Mythbusters recently went horribly wrong, with a cannonball leaving the Alameda bomb range and striking a house and Minivan. Hopefully this will not end the popular TV show. More information here: http://laslow.net/2011/12/07/mythbusters-and-damage-control/. The news story is here: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/12/07/BA1D1M99V5.DTL. This goes to show that even a small cannonball can have a … Read more
The Windows 8 interface will be the much talked about Metro design, and like it or not it will be the default when you start up your Windows 8 box. Applications started in Windows 8 will keep on running after you have “closed” them until they are needed again. This is quite different from Linux … Read more
I have had a look at the newest version of the Ubuntu Unity interface and it is not the theme-able interface that the Gnome 2 and Xfce desktops are. When I had Gentoo installed with the Gnome 2 desktop, the GDM theme selector was enabled, allowing you to select any theme you wanted for the … Read more
Record television with mplayer, with this simple script. This is very useful indeed. #!/bin/sh mencoder tv:// -tv driver=v4l2:input=1:norm=pal:width=720:height=576: \ device=/dev/video0:forceaudio:audiorate=32000:alsa:adevice=hw.0 buffersize=64 -ovc lavc \ -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=1300:keyint=30 -oac mp3lame -lameopts \ br=96:cbr:mode=3 -ffourcc divx -endpos 04:00:00 -o ~/Videos/tv-`date +%y%m%d_%H%M`-m.avi > /dev/null#!/bin/sh mencoder tv:// -tv driver=v4l2:input=1:norm=pal:width=720:height=576: \ device=/dev/video0:forceaudio:audiorate=32000:alsa:adevice=hw.0 buffersize=64 -ovc lavc \ -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=1300:keyint=30 -oac mp3lame … Read more
This is how to fix this issue with an NTFS drive that was not properly shutdown and therefore is not able to be mounted on Linux. https://securitronlinux.com/debian-testing/how-i-fixed-an-external-hard-drive-that-was-not-cleanly-unmounted-in-windows/. This will help out a user trying to to mount a Windows XP partition that was improperly shut down. This is very annoying when it happens, but this … Read more
The much awaited alpha version of the Ubuntu Linux distribution has been released. This version of Ubuntu comes with kernel 3.2.0-2.5, which is based on the latest mainline v3.2-rc3 kernel. The server release of the AMD64 version has been merged into the generic Ubuntu release to ease the burden of maintaining this release of Ubuntu. … Read more
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