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East and West
This has also aways bothered me. As usual, Randall, at xkcd, has put in a comic what was in my head. Recently, I was thinking of making a post about how old concepts from the 1400s and 1500s still influence our terminology and words today. One of the most prominent ones you often hear on…
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Web Comic Author….why not?
I’ve always been one of those guys that believe you should try everything you want to do. Just throw it at the wall and see what sticks. That’s how I got into blogging back in 2003. (Holy cow, almost exactly 5 years to the day) It’s also how I got into computer animation. And photography. …
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Ubuntu 8.10 does away with xorg.conf
One of the biggest Ubuntu stories on the net is the elimination of xorg.conf. They haven’t made it unnecessary, they’ve completely eliminated it. If you create one and edit it – it will have no effect. I have not yet upgrade to 8.10, so I can’t verify it, but so far I haven’t seen any…
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KDE 4 Second Time Around
I’ve been spending time in KDE on the weekends since I usually don’t need to update my podcasts (which I manage in Rythmbox) and here are my current impressions. Now that the latest nVidia drivers have come out, I was able to enable the desktop composite effects in KDE. This does not use Compiz, but…
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Installing and Running Warcraft III via Wine
First I updated Wine to 1.0.0 (It didn’t work properly on 0.94) on Ubuntu. In there I have D as the CDROM drive. So I typed wine d:\install.exe This installed just fine Here’s what happened with 0.94 when I first started this post: But the first time I clicked to play it, it did not…
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The Election is Over
Exactly how I feel, Randall – over at xkcd.
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Review: CentOS 5.2
This month’s Linux Format Magazine came with CentOS 5.2 on the disc. CentOS, in case you don’t know, is a community supported version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. (RHEL) Again, in the unlikely case you don’t know – Red Hat is required to supply the source code to all GPL code it uses in RHEL.…
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Vote!
If you are an American reader of this blog, make sure you vote. It doesn’t matter who you vote for – just vote. And keep your eyes out for any hanky-panky with the voting machines.
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Review: Sabayon 3.5 Pod
Since both Gentoo and Sabayon were included on this Linux Format DVD, I decided I would first try and install Gentoo and then Sabayon and compare how easy the installations were since Sabayon is a derivative distro from Gentoo. As you know, I was unable to get a working installation from the LiveCD of Gentoo.…
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Avant Window Navigator
For a long while there I didn’t want to check out the Avant Window Navigator (AWN) because I was shunning Compiz. But now that I’m back on the Compiz (and since Metacity should have compositing “soon” anyway) I decided to give a shot when it was featured in Linux Format Magazine Issue 112. I found…
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Ubuntu 8.10 launches today!
Unless something went wrong between when I’m writing this post at 2324 on 29 Oct and tomorrow when it’s scheduled to launch, Congrats to the Canonical and the Ubuntu Release team on Ubuntu 8.10. The servers will probably be pounded today, so you might want to wait a few days before upgrading. I usually wait…
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Review: Gentoo 2008.0 and beyond Part 1
Another distro in the seven distros included in Linux Format Magazine issue #110 is Gentoo 2008.0. This is an interesting release given the recent news that, at least for the time being, Gentoo is not going to be releasing these discs anymore. Apparently for both of the last two years there has been a lot…
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Review: Slax 6.0.7
For some reason, I didn’t get Linux Format Magazine issue #110 when I was supposed to. I ordered another copy and it arrived recently, so it’s time for another slate of Linux reviews. Unfortunately, something appears to be wrong with the way they mastered the magazine DVD, because I was unable to boot into any…
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Spore!
Got Spore on Saturday and I’ve been playing it more or less non-stop since then. It was very, very fun! A lot more fun than I expected from the reviews. I don’t blame the reviewers since the game had been hyped for the past three years. I think the cell stage sucks and I don’t…