Simplest hello world program I can think of.
int main() { write(1, "Hello world.\n", 14); return 0; }int main() { write(1, "Hello world.\n", 14); return 0; } Can you think of any simpler C example?
RSS Feed fixed.
I have replaced the files in the Twenty Ten theme with my own index.php and associated files and did some PHP hacking and the feed is working! I wish I knew about this before, but the thread here: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-indexphp-invalidates-rss-feeds gave me this idea.
Voyager probe leaving Solar System.
The Voyager probe that left Earth 34 years ago is now leaving the Solar System altogether and moving into a huge cloud of matter that is surrounding our Solar System. The craft’s batteries have enough power to keep the venerable craft operating until anno 2020. The fact that the computers are still working and processing … Read more
Mythbusters cannon experiment goes wrong.
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
Windows 8 vs Gnome 3/Shell.
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
Thoughts on the Ubuntu Unity design.
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
Recording television with mplayer.
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
Mounting a Windows XP partition that was improperly shut down.
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
Ubuntu 12.04 Alpha released into the wilds.
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
Old Linux pages updated.
http://securitron.securitronlinux.com/my_linux_system.php Linux pages updated, and old entries improved. About time I updated these pages.
Facebook settling over privacy violations.
Facebook is settling with the FTC over charges that they promised that customers data would be kept private and then repeatedly allowing it to be sold and shared publicly. There were no fines or penalties over this, they have gotten off scot free with the data mining of users data. According to the Federal Trade … Read more
Website pages updated.
http://securitron.securitronlinux.com/ My Linux information pages redesigned. Check them out. I have found an old backup of my old securitronlinux.com website, I will search through the mysql dump of my WordPress installation and see what I can find in that file. I was hosting my website with Hosting24, but their service is terrible compared to Hostgator. … Read more
Linux Mint 12 with Gnome Shell released.
The Linux Mint 12 Linux distribution has been released with the Gnome 3 Shell and a layer on top of the Gnome Shell to make it easier to use for those like me who have used Gnome since version 1.0 and are more desirous of a familiar interface and would not like the default Gnome … Read more
No good space opera movies like Star Wars anymore?
Why is it that there are no movies made these days to rival Star Wars? The 1977 epic A New Hope was awesome, it dropped you right into the action straight after the opening credits with the Millenium Falcon struggling to escape an Imperial Star Destroyer. And then the apprentice Jedi Luke Skywalker, and the … Read more
Blogilo blogging client and Gnome Shell desktop setup.
The KDE Blogilo blogging client is a very easy and quick blogging client for the KDE desktop. With a self hosted WordPress setup like I have you have a very easy setup. Just click Blog-> New Blog and fill in the URL of your blog page and the username and password and click auto configure. … Read more
Free speech on the Internet to be lost.
The Internet that we know that has free speech and freedom of expression as its keystone is due to be restricted with free speech under attack under the guise of protecting against piracy and pornography. But they really want to take away our freedom to say what ever we want about the current state of … Read more
Antivirus to be built into Windows 8.
The Windows 8 operating system from Redmond will have the anti-virus included in the distributed OS instead of being available as a free download as it was with the Microsoft Security Essentials that I have used on Windows 7. This is causing a bit of debate on whether this is an anti-trust issue or not. … Read more
Facebook shutdown rumor false.
The Facebook website will allegedly be shut down next year, according to the Weekly World News. If Mark Zuckerberg was having so much trouble running the popular social networking website, then he should be able to pay someone else to take over the reins and run the site. I would have thought that the Facebook … Read more
Installing Enlightenment E17 on Debian Squeeze.
The Enlightenment E17 window manager is now available for the Debian testing distribution. This window manager is now easier to install now that you are not required to install it with a CVS or GIT repository or with other complex commands. This is what my /etc/apt/sources.lst looks like, I have added the Debian Testing repository … Read more
Nostalgia post. Some cool things from the past.
A nostalgia post with some cool pictures from history This thread will be showcasing the awesome and not so awesome things that sprang up in the past. The Windows `95 operating system was one that came out of Redmond with the taskbar and icons on the desktop that continued relatively unchanged until the Windows XP … Read more