This is a look at the Windows 8 RTM desktop. The Windows 8 Interface is still here, they would not remove that would they? But this is just a tablet interface on a desktop machine, at least with Gnome Shell and Unity the interface makes some sense, but the Windows 8 tablets require a Windows … Read more
Following on from my previous posting that covered setting up a MySQL database, here is a simple query that returns records that match a certain type. mysql> select * from operatingsystems where Type = "Windows"; +——+————-+———+———–+ | OsID | Name | Type | vendor | +——+————-+———+———–+ | 1 | Windows 3.0 | Windows | Microsoft … Read more
There is a great amount of stupidity and ignorance that is seemingly the norm right now. Forgetting the fact that the Universe is 13.7 billion years old and was formed by the explosion of a super-compressed block of matter, the super-heated plasma of elementary particles that were expelled outwards faster than the speed of light … Read more
I was setting up a Windows Server 2008 machine today with Active Directory and I was struck by the power that the Active Directory group policies give to the systems Administrator in terms of managing your client desktop machines and creating a unified locked-down desktop across all workstations. There is a HOWTO on adding a … Read more
The olden days of computing were dominated by the massive Microsoft corporation, they bought their DOS operating system from IBM, and copied the mouse and icons interface from the Xerox Star operating system from 1981. Nowadays the Ubuntu distribution is copying the Macintosh OSX interface to create the Unity interface. But that is not very … Read more
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia16051_figure_1_raw_smaller-full.jpg. This panorama image taken by the Curiosity rover is 29185 * 4144 pixels and contains a massive amount of data. The rovers cameras are 2 mega-pixels, this is less than a consumer smart-phone camera, but they have many features than lift them above any consumer level digital camera. The 34 millimetre mast-cam took this … Read more
The best tip to give a computer user is to clean the dust out of your computer regularly, if your computer is in a dusty environment, the fans that cool the CPU and GPU will gradually fill with dust until the efficiency of the heatsink and the fans is reduced. Switching off your computer and … Read more
This amazing photograph is the first color panorama sent back to Earth by the Curiosity rover. The high-resolution camera on the rover is capable if extremely good quality photographs. I wish we could send a rover to the Moon with such a high-resolution camera. India are planning such a mission in a few years, this … Read more
This programming trick is pretty cool, you can run the /bin/sh shell with a C program. The execve() function is useful for running a command within a C program and passing arguments to it, but I have replaced the arguments with NULL instead, that is what you put when you do not need arguments. #include … Read more
This is the first colour photograph taken by the Curiosity rover sent by NASA. This photograph is taken with a new high-resolution camera called the Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) at the end of the rover’s robotic arm. This imaging device can resolve super-small details when the camera is up close to an interesting object.
This is a nice photograph of the scenery near the rover. This gives a good view of the tread on the tyres and the large hill in the distance.
The Curiosity rover has successfully landed on the surface of Mars, this is another successful landing for NASA, exploring the Red Planet and bringing to light more of the secrets held by Mars. Life could have existed on the surface of the planet long ago, but the change of the climate has killed off any … Read more
This video shows how to install an instance of Windows 7 in a Virtualbox disk image, if you install the Virtualbox guest additions you can run Windows 7 at full resolution and copy and paste between the host and the virtualised operating system.
India are planning to send a probe to Mars, this will only be an orbiting probe to take photos of the surface of Mars and send them back to Earth. This is very interesting, with the tech boom in India, they are really moving ahead, the formerly third world country is now accelerating into the … Read more
Using the Linux last command to view re-boot history. C:\HOME\FLYNN\DOCUMENTS> last reboot reboot system boot 3.4.0-rc2-bejiit Sat Aug 4 12:50 – 14:29 (01:39) reboot system boot 3.4.0-rc2-bejiit Fri Aug 3 21:11 – 21:16 (00:05) reboot system boot 3.4.0-rc2-bejiit Fri Aug 3 20:21 – 20:57 (00:36) reboot system boot 3.4.0-rc2-bejiit Fri Aug 3 11:35 – 20:00 … Read more
The NASA Curiosity rover is due to land on the Martian surface and bring us many new images of the Martian surface. This craft is travelling at over 13,000 Miles an hour and it needs to be able to slow down to a full stop before it creates a new crater on the dusty Martian … Read more
For users of Adblock Plus with the Chromium web browser, and Firefox as well, if you enter the URL below as a filter, this will block all Facebook advertisements from showing. Facebook advertisements are usually used by scammers and they are rarely useful compared to the superior Adwords Google ads. facebook.com##.ego_section facebook.com##.coverPhotoImg The code above … Read more
I recently wanted to connect my laptop running Linux Mint 12 Debian edition with my desktop machine running Linux Mint 13 Maya with a crossover cable, the desktop machine has two network cards, one connected to the Ethernet modem and one that I connected my crossover cable to. Then I clicked the Network icon on … Read more