My OpenSuse 11.3 system is running better now, I updated the x86_64 installation to kernel 2.6.37-rc6 and that was very easy indeed, Ubuntu does not offer the same polished manual kernel installation method that OpenSuse has, you type make modules_install to install the kernel modules into /lib, then type make install to install the kernel … Read more
Tried the FreeBSD DVD on my system last night, I got the operating system installed and the Gnome 2.30 desktop up and running, but I could not get the Intel graphics driver to work with my i3 CPU and Gigabyte H55 motherboard. I guess there is not as much support for this distribution as there … Read more
I am typing this in Gedit, running over ssh to my laptop, just like I was doing with Gentoo. Just by typing ssh -X 10.0.0.2 -l shoggoth you can connect to the other machine after the IP addresses are sorted out. Here is the kernel version I have, 2.6.34 is a good kernel, but I … Read more
I have just upgraded to a 64bit installation of my favourite OpenSuse 11.3 distribution. It is feeling slightly faster than the 32bit version and all I need now is a 64bit version of Flash… That is available, and I have just tested the plugin and it works with Firefox. Too good, now I have a … Read more
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/10/microsoft-mulling-128-bit-versions-of-windows-8-windows-9.ars Working in high security department for research and development involving strategic planning for medium and longterm projects. Research & Development projects including 128bit architecture compatibility with the Windows 8 kernel and Windows 9 project plan. Forming relationships with major partners: Intel, AMD, HP, and IBM. Robert Morgan is working to get IA-128 working backwards … Read more
I just bought the latest Linux Format DVD, and I tried to boot the Fedora Core 14 distribution on the disc and it would not work, it gave me an error to do with the compressed filesystem. But I got a copy of FreeBSD 8.1 and I will give that a try later and see … Read more
I am running kernel 2.6.37-rc6 on my main OpenSuse 11.3 installation and it has quite a few advantages over the previous kernel release, offering a Open Source driver for the Broadcom WIFI adapters. This is quite a step ahead of the old system where you had to install the binary firmware into your system, especially … Read more
http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/01/13/1755240/Mozilla-To-Release-Firefox-4-Next-Month. “Damon Sicore, Senior Director of Platform Engineering at Mozilla, has announced that the company is almost ready to ship Firefox 4. On its mailing list, Mozilla has revealed it has around 160 hard blockers to fix, before proceeding to Release Candidate stage. Both the RC and the final version would arrive in February, according … Read more
I am using Sabayon Linux on my PC now, enjoying the benefits of using Open Source software without the hassles of installing codecs like you need to do with Ubuntu and Linux Mint. I only had to install the libdvdcss package from the source tarball and I was playing a DVD right away without having … Read more
Our freedom to share information on the Internet is at risk and we need to do something. Visit anti-acta.com and sign the petition to stop this being forced on us. Sure they want to go after those of us that want to torrent movies and share music, but they will not stop there. We need … Read more
I am making another Doom map. This one is for Ultimate Doom and is a hellish base run by the Demons. http://www.securitronlinux.com/maps/hands.rar You can see some screenshots here, with a shot of the skin hell room and some Imps guarding a invulnerability powerup. This map does not have a name yet, but it is coming … Read more
While running Linux, if you want to list the contents of a folder in a vertical list format, just use the ls command with these switches. ls -hula –color=autols -hula –color=auto then you get the directory listing with human readable file sizes instead of being listed in bytes. To list the partitions on a disk, … Read more
When managing services on OpenSuse 11.3 the best way is to use the service command. One example is to synchronize the time with an Internet time server. I have NTP setup so I can just type: service ntp restartservice ntp restart That command will restart the NTP daemon and set the time on your machine … Read more
Russia are moving away from Windows and towards a Linux operating system instead, this is a good victory for Open Source software, which does not have the costs of constant repairs and downtime that Windows has, especially using the 10 year old Windows XP OS. Linux has more security, especially using NSA Selinux, which can … Read more
This is an epic video of the AMD CPU being overclocked to 7GHZ. This is truly incredible and shows what you can do with super-cold liquid helium. Although, we will undoubtedly have processors as fast as this soon anyway, it would be hard to imagine gaming with such a CPU. With super fast GPU’s in … Read more
I have been busy testing the WordPress 3.1 beta and it is working very well indeed, no problems yet running on Apache2 webserver on my OpenSuse 11.3 machine. I used a local webserver instead of my website to run it as it made testing easier, and I used it to develop the new look of … Read more
I have removed Windows 2003 from my machine, it had started to corrupt files on my hard disk. I thought it was a good reliable operating system but I know better now. Why can’t Windows have a more reliable filesystem and software like Linux and UNIX have had for ages. I replaced it with OpenSuse … Read more
Just typing up this post in OpenOffice.org thinking about the royal screw up that the National Broadband Network in Australia is turning out to be. It will cost AU$56.00 per month for the service and it may not be available in the country areas, they will have to be served by Satellite and WIMAX wireless … Read more
I am sick of my current webhost, I have had my files deleted from my website without warning and I am going to move my website to hostgator.com and hopefully they will offer better service than hosting24.com. Stay away from them. I am sorry for the inconvenience and I am going to transfer my current … Read more
It is quite annoying that the way I access the Cpanel for my account is blocked by some ISP’s, e,g the port 2082. That is annoying and makes it hard to access my account. I can use the commandline ftp application to upload files, but I cannot actually do anything with the files I have … Read more