The US$265 Linux powered Spark tablet is a new innovation that brings cheap affordable hardware and a open Linux operating system together. This is an incredible innovation, that will create a tablet that hopefully is hackable to install other flavours of Linux and able to run various games as well. It would be cool to … Read more
A look at the Unity desktop coming up in the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS release and the new HUD.
The downloads for Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin are available at the following links. precise-desktop-i386.iso 12-Feb-2012 07:59 719M Desktop CD for PC (Intel x86) computers (standard download) precise-desktop-powerpc.iso 12-Feb-2012 07:59 726M Desktop CD for Mac (PowerPC) and IBM-PPC (POWER5) computers (standard download) precise-desktop-amd64.iso 12-Feb-2012 07:58 717M Desktop CD for 64-bit PC (AMD64) computers (standard download) These … Read more
The Enlightenment E16 desktop I have setup on my computer is a very good example of a simple computer interface, the layout of the desktop with the iconbox and virtual desktop pager at the bottom of the screen, the clicking on the desktop to access the root menu and the overall eye candy aspect is … Read more
This is what the MATE desktop looks like running on Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin. This is the fork of the Gnome 2.32.1 source code to run on modern Linux distributions. The MATE desktop is not as fast as the Xubuntu or Lubuntu desktops, but good for a nostalgic Linux user. The layout of the panels … Read more
Good Firefox 11.0 setup for safer web browsing. The Firefox web browser truly is a very good and safe browser for everyday use, but with the addition of some extensions, the browsing experience can be made even more secure. Firstly, the Noscript extension is the best and most useful extension for blocking web scripts that … Read more
To install another cool console font in Ubuntu, install this package: fonts-ubuntu-font-family-console. These fonts are quite blocky, but they are something different if you wish to try another cool font for your Linux console. Type this command to install these very lovely fonts. sudo apt-get install fonts-ubuntu-font-family-consolesudo apt-get install fonts-ubuntu-font-family-console These are the fonts you … Read more
The KDE 4.7.4 respin of the excellent Linux Mint 12 distribution has been released. The KDE desktop is a good alternative to the Gnome Shell cinnamon desktop included with the default Linux Mint 12 distribution. There are a few options when it comes to downloading this distribution. 32 bit ISO: http://mirror.netcologne.de/mint//stable/12/linuxmint-12-kde-dvd-32bit.iso 64 bit ISO: http://mirror.netcologne.de/mint//stable/12/linuxmint-12-kde-dvd-64bit.iso … Read more
I have tested out the MATE Gnome 2.32 desktop on Ubuntu 12.04, I tried to install this desktop before, but I had errors come up during the installation and I gave up and removed the Mint repositories from my /etc/apt/sources.lst, but it turned out that the working desktop actually was installed on my computer and … Read more
My website is now mobile enabled. I just tested this on my Nokia E72 and the website works perfectly in the mobile browser on that mobile telephone. I have also tested it in Opera Mobile and I got the same successful result. This means that my website should now work perfectly on an Apple Iphone … Read more
The Enlightenment E17 desktop window manager is very unstable when I use the packages supplied with the Ubuntu 12.04 release. I have installed the Enlightenment E16 window manager using a source tarball from this website and after installing the libimlib2-dev package I installed the source thusly. ./configure ; make ; make install And then I … Read more
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=75463. The Gnome 3.2 desktop is available in the Debian Testing repository. This means that any Debian user who wishes to install and test out this new desktop may do so by switching to the testing repositories and installing the required packages. This forum post has some information on how to install the Gnome 3 … Read more
I really need to get around to installing the Fedora 15 DVD and have the Gnome 3 desktop running as I want to be able to create a new theme based on the default Gnome 3 desktop interface and put that up on my website. That would be cool as the Gnome 3 GUI is … Read more
The 11.10 release of the Ubuntu Linux distribution has just hit the file servers. This release uses the 3.0.4 Linux kernel, gcc 4.6, Xorg 7.6 and the Gnome 3.2.0 desktop with the Unity 4.22 desktop interface. The Unity interface has been ported to the all new GTK 3.0 version with the possibility to create all … Read more
Linux is truly everywhere, even on the airlines. This is a photograph taken on Vietnam airlines where the entertainment system appears to be running a variant of Red Hat Linux. The system is booting up and loading the kernel and the various services are loading and it seems to be trying to access a SD … Read more
The tenth anniversary of the shocking attacks on 9/11 September is upon us and we are once again reminded of the threat of terrorism that still hangs over us today. The attacks on that fateful day are still the most shocking act of terrorism that we have ever seen, and it does not help that … Read more
I have switched to a better theme framework for my WordPress page. I am going to leave this as the default look as the theme is not as narrow as some of the WordPress themes I have tried, the proper menu on the left makes this easy to navigate and I think it looks rather … Read more
I have finished my C++ CGI script. The script is for Apache and any other Internet server software that can run C++ CGI scripts. I am very happy with the performance of this program compared to a Perl script, and it is much more streamlined than a lot of other C++ CGI scripts I have … Read more
Sony PS3 in the days before Other OS feature was removed from the Playstation 3. This allowed you to have a very fast and reliable system that could be networked into a supercomputing cluster using the Cell processor in the Playstation 3. That was a good system, still available if you have a PS3 that … Read more