There is a story over on Slashdot about the 20 year anniversary of the Linux operating system. Linux has come a long way in the 20 year history and now it is a very robust and reliable operating system. Since Linus Torvalds needed a free version of the proprietary UNIX operating system that existed at … 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
I was playing around with /bin/cat on my FreeBSD laptop and I typed this command. This is a useful trick to join mp3 files together in one long audio file. jason@Yog-Sothoth:~/Music$ cat Dune\ \(1983\)\ OST\ -\ Dune\ Prophecy\ \(Long\ Version\)-UWFm2LIYNjg.mp3 > ambient-winter.mp3jason@Yog-Sothoth:~/Music$ cat Dune\ \(1983\)\ OST\ -\ Dune\ Prophecy\ \(Long\ Version\)-UWFm2LIYNjg.mp3 > ambient-winter.mp3 And now … Read more
http://www.walkernews.net/2007/06/22/download-official-redhat-linux-iso-image/. The link above is to the Redhat 6.2 Linux distribution, the first version of Linux I used. It ran very well on a Celeron 600 with 64MB of RAM and integrated graphics. Linux has come so far since it was first released, the desktop has gotten even easier to use and with the release … 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
After switching from Ubuntu to Knoppix 6.3 on my laptop, I am seeing the benefits of using this operating system that does not restrict you like Windows does, and comes with a heap of software to boot, including the VIM GUI and Amarok as well as a heap of games and out of the box … Read more
New Metacity theme. I have just added a new metacity theme at: http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=62338. This is a theme using SVG graphics. It is different looking, but quite good too. My own take on a Gnome Metacity theme.