Category Archives: Linux
I Downloaded Transformers [2007] DvDrip [Eng] aXXo Using The MPAA University Toolkit
The MPAA has their own flavor of Linux… if you can call a few quaint additions a new flavor. It’s actually a decent LiveCD, since it’s based on Xubuntu. With a python script and an MPAA-branded version of ntop, the … Continue reading
Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-950 – Does It Work In Linux?
Black Friday was good to me. I visited about a dozen different stores and ended up getting better deals than I had originally expected. I tend to be one of those so-called “bad customers” who leverage price matching guarantees to … Continue reading
Acid2 Test – Firefox 3 Beta 1 vs Phoenix 0.1, Firebird 0.6 and Firefox 2
Have you ever heard of the Acid test for browsers? Acid 2 is the worst case senario to test web standards compliance. Looking at the source code, it’s by far one of the most convoluted (yet perfectly web compliant) pages … Continue reading
Unreal Tournament 3 – Linux Client Delayed
I’ve gone and done something I really regret – this afternoon I went and purchased a video game that doesn’t support Linux. Not on purpose mind you. And I’ve purchased games in the past that don’t have a native Linux … Continue reading
KDE 4.0 Release Candidate 1 Now Available
KDE has anounced the availability of KDE 4.0 RC1 – get it while it’s hot! See the press release, take a look at the build instructions, and grab the source code… get compiling folks! Alternately, you can grab the Debian KDE4 Live … Continue reading
Awn with OSX Stacks… Hopefully This Week!
I was amazed when I saw this (forget where), had to go and hunt it down… turns out, Wim Wauters, aka SilentStorm on the Avant Window Navigator Forum is releasing this absolutely FANTASTIC goodie to the public very soon, hopefully … Continue reading
Linux/Unix Censorship on Digg.com?
Every Thursday, for the last 10 weeks straight I’ve been providing a quick synposis on the top 10 or 15 stories on the most popular topics on Digg.com in the Linux/Unix section. Not anymore… not Digg anyways. This isn’t gonna … Continue reading
Fedora 8 : At This Pace, Linux On The Desktop Is Going Nowhere Fast
Fedora, in their infinite wisdom, decided it would be a great idea to make it difficult to install proprietary codecs, drivers, and much more due to vague licensing issues that may exist. Let’s talk about what doesn’t work by default … Continue reading
Digg “Linux Nation” for Thursday November 8th 2007
For the 9th week in a row… Seven more days pass, 15 more stories from the Digg Linux/Unix section. I like doing this piece every week… I actually missed a few of these. Maybe I don’t pay enough attention to … Continue reading
Your Mother Warned You About Using Plugins For gedit
Users of any Gnome-based distribution are probably familiar with gedit, the basic text editor with a few sweet additions, such as multiple file editing with tabs. Even regular users of gedit may not even know that it has a plugin … Continue reading