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Linux Kernel Source Code Screensaver
2008-01-09 06:36:00 I consider myself to be a geek. Linux and geeks have a long history together. So, naturally there are a bunch of geeky things available for Linux. In this case, I’m talking about screensavers. I was looking for a screensaver that would show me something really cool about my system. Then I got the idea ... More About: Screensaver , Random Thoughts , Source , Code
Gutsy Gibbon Released
2007-10-18 20:52:00 Version 7.10 of Ubuntu Linux codenamed “Gutsy Gibbon ” was released today. This release is the first Ubuntu release to include Compiz Fusion desktop effects by default. I played with this feature during Gutsy’s beta testing phase, and there are a lot of interesting features. There were only a few minor bugs when I was testing ... More About: Released
Restarting a Locked Linux Box Without Using Reset
2007-09-17 19:51:00 Everybody always talks about how Linux is a very stable operating system. That may be true, but once in a while a Linux machine can become unstable. A lot of times, a Linux machine becomes unstable not because of Linux itself, but because of the software that’s running on top of it. For example, if ... More About: Locked , Restart , Estar , Reset
Quick Tip: Toggle Previous Directory
2007-08-27 00:00:00 People who use the Linux/Unix command line to any extent are certainly familiar with the cd (change directory) command. In fact, this is probably one of the first commands you ever learned on the command line. When you’re working with the command line, a lot of times you need to switch to a directory and ... More About: Directory , Quick , Tory , Director , Dire
Note Taking on Linux!
2007-08-24 19:19:00 When I started college at UCF a few years ago, I received a free copy of Microsoft OneNote 2003. I was running Windows XP on my laptop at that time. OneNote was very useful for taking notes during class. I could organize each lecture onto its own note page, and organize all of my note ... More About: Linux , Taking
Upgrade Your Linux Process Manager
2007-08-14 09:52:00 In the Unix/Linux command line environment, exploring the running processes is accomplished chiefly by two programs. top gives you a real-time list of running processes which updates periodically showing the most active processes at the top (hence the name.) ps takes a snapshot of the running processes and dumps them to the command line for ... More About: Manager , Process , Manage , Ager
Ubuntu 30-Mount Check Annoyance
2007-08-13 09:31:00 If you’ve used Ubuntu Linux for longer than a month, you’ve no doubt realized that every 30 times you boot up you are forced to run a filesystem check. This filesystem check is necessary in order to keep your filesystem healthy. Some people advise turning the check off completely, but that is generally not a ... More About: Tips , Check , Annoyance , Mount
Optimize Google For Your Website
2007-07-16 23:09:00 If you have your own website, then getting your website to cooperate with search engines is critical to getting traffic to your site. There are many strategies for optimizing your website for Googl e , but optimizing Google for your website can also be beneficial. Google Webmaster Tools allows you to submit information to Google about your ... More About: Website , Opti
New House
2007-07-15 16:51:00 This is off-topic, but I’m probably going to be a bit slow on the updates over the next few days because I’m moving into my new place. I’ll try to get to posting by the end of the day, but moving can be pretty exhausting. I do have a few writeups coming down the pipe, ... More About: House , New House , Ouse
Fixing Azureus Core Dump Issue
2007-07-13 22:47:00 I’ve been running the Azure us BitTorrent client on Ubuntu for a while. Recently it’s started having problems starting up. Usually it will be running and then it will crash spontaneously, and then when I restart it it loads until it gets to the main window and the immediately crashes. It will then crash every time ... More About: Core , Xing , Issue
Google Reader Helps You Manage Your Feeds
2007-07-13 05:14:00 If you have a lot of websites that you like to visit regularly, Googl e Reader can help you consolidate and coordinate your daily web browsing ritual. Google Reader is an RSS feed reader for tracking updates to all of your favorite websites. Anytime you find a website that you want to check regularly, can add ... More About: Manage
Microsoft .NET Patch Trouble
2007-07-12 21:34:00 The SANS Internet Storm Center and The Register are reporting that Microsoft ’s MS07-040 patch is causing people’s computers to go ‘haywire.’ According to the reports, any number of problems could happen to your computer after this patch is applied. If any part of your system seems to be going haywire, then you might have already ... More About: News , Patch
How To Shutdown Linux on a Timer
2007-07-12 05:57:00 This is a relatively simple tip, but if you’re new to Linux you might not be familiar with it. I don’t believe there is a built-in feature for doing this within Gnome or KDE, but this uses the command line so it will work in any environment. Shut ting down your computer on a timer can ... More About: Timer , Shutdown
Google Releases Google Desktop for Linux
2007-07-11 08:12:00 I know this news is a few days old, but it’s still pretty cool. Google has finally released a Linux version of their popular desktop search application. The cool thing about Google Desktop is that it doesn’t just search for files, it also searches within files. It will search within any text file, and also ... More About: News , Google Desktop
Fix a b0rk3d Linux Terminal
2007-07-11 07:09:00 If you’ve used Linux or Unix terminals, then you may have come across the problem of having a messed up terminal. I’m not entirely sure about how it happens, but some programs send exactly the right stream of data to your terminal so that all you see is nonsense. Sometimes only the window title gets ... More About: Terminal , Tips , Term , Mina
Enhance Web Browsing with OpenDNS
2007-07-10 09:33:00 Using OpenDNS is an easy way to improve several aspects of your Internet connection. OpenDNS is a free DNS service which incorporates several helpful features transparently. OpenDNS can make your Internet connection safer, faster, smarter and more reliable. OpenDNS incorporates an anti phishing database into its services to protect you from phishing websites. If ever you ... More About: Browsing
Firefox Bookmark Shortcuts
2007-07-10 04:27:00 Firefox includes a feature which allows you to quickly and easily access your bookmarked websites directly from the address bar. For each bookmark in Firefox, you can specify a keyword. Putting this keyword into the address bar brings you to your bookmarked web page. So, for example, you could set up a bookmark for micrux.net, ... More About: Firefox , Bookmark , Shortcuts , Short , Cuts
Internet Radio Day of Silence
2007-06-26 07:46:00 I know that everybody else has already posted about this, but I figured I would help try to spread the word. If today were a normal day, I would tell you about how awesome Pandora is. It’s an Intern et radio station that plays a customized stream of music tailored to your own preferences. It’s one ... More About: Radio , Internet radio , Silence
Better than Dual Boot
2007-06-25 00:25:00 One of the biggest issues people have with switching to Linux is dependence on applications that will only run on Windows. One solution to this problem is to set up a dual boot system. You can partition your hard drive into two logical drives, install Windows on one and Linux on the other. Then you ... More About: Bett , Al B , Boot , Dual
Sun?s Project Looking Glass
2007-06-20 09:20:00 I recently found a video demonstrating one of Sun’s new open source projects called Project Look ing Glass (also here). Looking Glass is a 3D desktop environment which can display any regular 2D window in 3D space. It’s based on Java, so it’s cross-platform and can run on Linux, Solaris, or Windows. It also incorporates transparency ... More About: Tips , Random Thoughts
DJing on Linux
2007-06-18 09:17:00 Long long ago before I became enlightened by Linux , I used to have Windows on all of my computers. I also used to have a program for windows for DJing which was called VirtualDJ. Basically, there are two mp3 players next to each other skinned to look like turntables. Each one could be controlled like ... More About: Tips , Random Thoughts
SSH Reverse Tunneling
2007-06-15 05:13:00 I recently came across a unique networking problem. I had a computer that was behind a NAT firewall which needed to be accessible for Remote Desktop. Actually, it was behind 2 NAT devices, but that’s sort of irrelevant. After spending a lot of time trying to get the correct ports forwarded, I found out that ... More About: Tips , Verse , Tunnel , Tunneling
Renewed
2007-06-14 09:18:00 It’s been almost 2 months since I’ve posted. Isn’t that the lamest and most commonly found line in blogs? Anyways. I’m planning on getting back on the ball here with this thing. I just got hooked up with a sweet hosting company, so this site should be rockin’ now. Props to Dreamhost for putting up ... More About: Random Thoughts , Rene
Beluga Ball Prank
2007-06-14 08:43:00 We busted in on Beluga while he was on the john, check it out. Get the Flash Player to see this player. var FO = { movie:"https://media.dreamhost.com/mediap layer.swf",width:"320",height:"240",major version:"7",build:"0",bgcolor:"#FFFFFF", flashvars:"file=http://www.micrux.net/MOV 02694_320x240.flv&showdigits=true� 38;autostart=false" }; UFO.create(FO,"MOV02694_320x240.flv"); More About: Prank , Random Thoughts , Ball
Update: Feisty
2007-04-20 10:14:00 Well after a few hours of kicking and screaming at my computer, I finally got Ubuntu 7.04 working on my desktop. I don’t know what originally caused my video card drivers to get messed up, but it was my own stupidity that drove the problem even further. I set my VideoRam in my config to ... More About: Random Thoughts , Update , Feisty
So Far, Disappointed with Feisty
2007-04-20 04:20:00 I waited all night, and I waited all morning for the newest release of Ubuntu. I was hanging out on #ubuntu-release-party channel on freenode. I was so excited! When I got home from classes it was finally released. I started the torrent… I found my nearest mirror… The servers were being clobbered. By the time ... More About: Random Thoughts , Feisty , Sapp
sudo
2007-04-18 20:32:00 Ubuntu 7.04 comes out tomorrow! How exciting. I’ll celebrate by posting this geeky comic I found on the Internet. Props to the author. More About: News
Google Apps
2007-03-26 07:52:00 Everybody likes Googl e ’s gmail! I’ve been using gmail for 2 or 3 years now, and it’s fantastic. Just when I thought life couldn’t get any better, I discovered Google Apps . Google Apps is a package of services that Google offers which you can bind (pardon the pun) to a domain of your choosing. The services ... More About: Tips
Whoops?
2007-03-18 09:25:00 Don’t you hate it when you do something really stupid? Like when you’re drinking something and you accidentally open your mouth and it spills all over the carpet? Yeah I hate it too. More About: Random Thoughts
Dell Sucks
2007-03-18 04:55:00 Grandma needs help with her computer. Simple enough. I went over to Grandma’s house today to take a look at her computer, and after some routine maintenence and cleaning I found a boot error. “Alert Previous Fan Error. Strike the F1 key to continue or hit F2 to enter setup.” So I opened ... More About: Dell , Sucks |
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