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Thursday, August 7th, 2008A tweet from Linda Eastin pointed me at this old blog entry from Daring Fireball on Linux and Spray-on Useability, that takes aim at the Eric Raymond rant on Linux usability (the one where he can’t get CUPS working).
There’s an old engineering adage: “Fast, good, cheap: pick two.” (Where
“fast” regards development time, not performance.) Desktop [...]
Linux Screenshots and Movies
Friday, March 14th, 2008Gimp, an open source and public-domain package available on most (if not all) Linux Desktop distrributions, makes it easy to get a screen shot. Note that Gimp is also available for windows now.
Bring up Gimp. This will vary, deepending on your OS.
From the Gimp menu, select File, then Acquire, then Screen Shot….
To capture an image [...]
Amazon MP3 Downloader available for Linux
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008Amazon has released Linux versions of their MP3 downloader.
There are specific versions for Ubuntu 7.10 “gutsy”, Debian 4 “etch”, Fedora 8, and OpenSUSE 10.3. The package managers on the respective distributions should automatically fetch and install all necessary dependencies. If your distribution isn’t the list, the *.deb or *.rpm files may still work.
Also, [...]
Installing Adobe flash player on Ubuntu 7.10
Thursday, January 31st, 2008A flash player is a must have plugin for browsers. Without it you cannot acess a lot of video sharing sites such as YouTube. By default, Ubuntu doesn’t come with a flash player because the Adobe flash player is proprietary. The solution is to manually install the flash player.
# get the flash player [...]
Test system stability using Pi calculations
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008The System Stability Tester is a freeware download for Linux, Unix, and Windows, that claims to test the stability of your system by calculating millions of digits of Pi in different threads, and comparing the threads for any disparities. You can also run the test on a single thread for benchmarking purposes.
It was originally developed [...]
The world ends on January 19, 2038: thanks Unix!
Friday, January 4th, 2008If you thought the Y2K bug had a lot of world ending potential, you might want to skip this post right now. If we don’t blow ourselves up by 2038, the end of the world is going to have little to do with nukes and a lot to do with Unix because Unix systems can’t [...]
Manage your GRUB menu the easy way with QGRUBEditor
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008from DownloadSquad:
Ubuntu and Kubuntu have become a world wide phenomenon. Nearly synonymous with the word Linux, it has become the Operating System of choice for hundreds of thousands of people and organizations. This success is partly owed to the simplicity of the system. Insert the Live CD, install, and everything else is automatic.
However, when the [...]
Read/write access to Linux partitions from Windows
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008I read today on Hackzine about a freeware tool called Linux Reader. It provides you with read access to ext2/ext3 partitions within Windows and has an explorer-like interface that allows you to drag and drop files from a standard Linux partition.
For full read/write access, there is another freeware utility called Ext2 IFS that provides [...]
Open Source Living
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008Open Source Living is a nicely organized collection of the best Open Source software and applications.
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Turn one PC into two for free
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008How do you like the sound of taking one machine, and having two people logged into it simultaneously? Sounds pretty neat to me – and it’s free too, which is always a tick in the right box.
Canadian company Userful markets Linux-based desktop multiplier and public access computing solutions – effectively turning one system into an [...]
