Today is great day in the UK. Day of another Royal Wedding. Not only because this is just another Bank Holiday in this country. But also bec...Read more »
Saturday, April 30, 2011
Avoid Ubuntu 11.04 Upgrade!
Upgrading an Ubuntu installation has never been a safe move, much less days after a release. This time around such statement is particularl...Read more »
Friday, April 29, 2011
Did You Know You Can Try BSD With VirtualBSD?
A while ago back in January I came across this announcement on OSNews.com and made a mental note that this was something I had to try. Virt...Read more »
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Slackware 13.37 Released
Oh excitement, Slackware 13.37 is out! I've been running it for around a week now on one partition with only Window Maker and Xfce and ...Read more »
HackWarez Caught Being Shady
Over at the Hackwarez community, some shady things were taking place and now leaked. The appearance of the golden ratio again 1337. I have ...Read more »
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Rzip - A new compression star is born
Remember when Bzip first came out and out-compressed Gzip\? Well, then came LZMA with another significant increase in compression ration a b...Read more »
A look at GNOME Shell
GNOME 3 and GNOME Shell were finally released, after years of development, just a few days ago. Their release was obviously raising enormou...Read more »
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Wait queues
While writing modules there might be situations where one might have to wait for input some condition to occur before proceeding further. Ta...Read more »
Linux Mint XFCE Roller Coaster
I have been trying to use Broadcom 4311 WiFi card on most Linux distro I have tried so far. This card is built into my Compaq C300 laptop. I...Read more »
Monday, April 25, 2011
Membuat conky lebih menawan
Conky adalah aplikasi untuk memonitoring system mulai dari penggunaan cpu dan ram, kernel yang sedang dipakai, suhu kompi, kapasitas hard ...Read more »
Blessed by Trinity...
I am long established fan of KDE3 (Trinity). There might be 2 reasons: 1) My first ever Linux was SLAX which is based on KDE3. 2) I prefer ...Read more »
Bodhi Linux Road Map
It's been about a month since our Bodhi Linux 1.0.0 (stable) release and I would like to say thank you to everyone that has helped make...Read more »
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Blackhats Re-Vamped the Linux Desktop
Click below to see the img in full view. I recently gave Gnome3 a test run, and couldn't decide if I liked it or not. There are certainl...Read more »
Friday, April 22, 2011
Is the Linux Desktop getting slower and more bloated?
In his "failure of logic" post "K. Mandla" writes that the Linux Desktop is not getting faster even though all the hard...Read more »
Secure Encryption and Decryption of files and streams - ccrypt
ccrypt is a command line utility for encrypting and decrypting files and streams. It was designed as a replacement for the standard Unix cry...Read more »
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Play Angry Animals (offline) on Linux
Angry Animals, a clone of the hugely popular Angry Birds game, is a FLASHNINJACLAN online game built with Flash. Obviously, online games a...Read more »
There Are More Than 100 Subscribers Now On This blog!
Last week was pretty much full of news around this blog. Most of them were linked to our 6-months anniversary. Is there anything important l...Read more »
Window Maker - The (Almost) Forgotten Window Manager
With the big two desktop environments changing massively over the last few years and getting quite a bit heavier at the same time I thought ...Read more »
Why Not Scale the CPU on Schedule?
Usually e.g. CPU frequency scaling works mostly by seeing how much of the CPU is utilized and then reacting by setting the frequency to a ce...Read more »
Protect SSH server from dictionary attacks using iptables
iptables is built on top of netfilter, iptables is the packet alteration framework for Linux 2.4.x and 2.6.x. It is a major rewrite of its p...Read more »
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
A Gnome Refugee's Guide to Enlightenment
The third major installment of the Gnome desktop released earlier this month and I am sure many users found themselves shell shocked with mo...Read more »
9 Steps To Happiness in Linux Mint XFCE
Linux Mint team works hard on making Linux as much user-friendly as possible. They even managed to improve usability of Ubuntu which holds...Read more »