The July 14 Solar Flare was not as destructive as we all thought it would be, but in the future there could be another more destructive Solar Flare that could cause some real damage to Earth. The 2009 movie “Knowing” featured a massive Coronal Mass Ejection of stellar matter that hit the Earth and incinerated … Read more
Dark Lagoon photograph. A nice widescreen Linux wallpaper for Ubuntu. A lovely Linux wallpaper that everyone should like.
There is a new short film out now that has a scene where a character is using an Apple Macintosh computer, yet the terminal window has a Windows command prompt in it? The character is using the Aircrack-ng WIFI cracking utility to crack the passkey for a WIFI network, but they are using the Windows … Read more
Some awesome Windows 7 styled KDE themes. Make the KDE desktop look like Windows. These themes for your Linux desktop will make it look like a Windows 7 desktop. This is cool if you wish to have a pretend Windows desktop on Linux. http://kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=141539 This is one very good color theme for KDE that makes it … Read more
The Solar System has an array of 13 objects, and they are providing many mysteries that are baffling scientists all over the world. The recently discovered vortex storm on the south polar cap of the Saturnian moon Titan is a mysterious storm that could be caused by the same scientific principle that causes the hexagonal … Read more
This is what the insides of an Apple iPhone 3gs look like. This is the motherboard of the iPhone. You can see the Subscriber Identity Module card slot on the right-hand end of the motherboard. Sure, the iPhone 3gs is an older model, but it is interesting to see the insides of this mobile telephone … Read more
The search for alien intelligences continues and though we have not found any alien civilizations yet, the search continues. The ability of life to exist in harsh climates is astounding, there are fish on this planet that live in sulfuric acid, and the lifeforms that exist around black smokers on the sea floor in water … Read more
I have abandoned the Fedora Core 17 distribution, the me-tv software is not available and I could not get the source code to compile. That program worked perfectly on Linux Mint 12, but when I installed the Linux Mint 13 distribution it would not work properly at all. Presently I have finished installing Ubuntu 11.04 … Read more
Astronomers have made an amazing discovery, a group of 10,000 distant galaxy clusters that are rushing towards the same point in the sky. The implications of this is that there are unimaginably large structures in the distant areas of the Universe that are beyond our sight. The visible Universe is only 14 billion light-years across … Read more
Fedora 17 multimedia setup tips: http://www.securitronlinux.com/fedora-core-15-package-management/. Tips on setting up the multimedia packages on Fedora Core 17. Easy MP3 codec installation. This does not install the codecs required to playback Xvid movies, but if you try to play an Xvid movie in Totem, it will pop up a message box telling you about the missing … Read more
The particle accelerator in Sweden has discovered a particle that could be the Higgs Boson, but this is not definite; despite what the mainstream media are saying, but this is a step towards the discovery of more of the building blocks of the Universe. The qualities of Dark Matter are still a mystery, as well … Read more
The Pagelines Framework theme is an outstanding theme for the WordPress blogging software, and adding Adsense ad units is a good way to monetise your website. If you edit the wp-content/themes/pagelines/sections/content/section.php you may add an Adsense ad unit very easily. There are plugins for WordPress that allow you to add Adsense ads to your blog, … Read more
This is a 16 Gigabyte RDIMM 16 GB DDR4 server memory module that is now available from Samsung. Only problem is that most computer motherboards can only support 32 Gigabytes of RAM, but that means you only need two of these to make that amount of RAM. Surely you could build a very good computer … Read more
There was a story on Slashdot regarding the Command Line Interface in modern operating systems. The Graphical User Interfaces in modern operating systems can perform some useful tasks, but I believe that the CLI still has it`s place. I always use the command-line when I am updating my Ubuntu and Linux Mint installations. You can … Read more
The Ubuntu 12.10 distribution has included a new office suite named Calligra words. This is a Spreadsheet, Word processor and also a Presentation and Flowchart creation application. Upon loading the Calligra Words application and seeing it for the first time, it has the tool-bars vertically on the right-hand side which takes up room, the Microsoft … Read more
I am trying out Ubuntu 12.10 Alpha, the installation and first boot both went very well indeed. Since I already had a custom installation of GNU Grub 2.00, I loaded the installer on the Live CD with this command: ubiquity –no-bootloader and that enabled me to install Ubuntu without installing the Grub boot-loader, then I … Read more