Tuesday, 28. August 2007, 20:14:32
compiz, os, gutsy, linux
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Yesterday I upgraded to a new Ubuntu Linux version, named Gutsy Gibbon, it works just great(seems to work faster), even though its not even a beta version yet. After installing it all I decided to go get and compile latest version
Compiz-fusion as the default one didn't work quite right. After hanging out a bit on
#desktop-effects and
#compiz-fusion I was pointed at this guide, which really helped me a lot in the process:
http://forum.compiz-fusion.org/showthread.php?t=1985Compiz fusion has lots of nice plugins which add some nice features and eyecandy to your desktop, just like the Magic lamp animation you can see in the screenshot below, or the Widget layer, just like in the screenshot on the right. Search youtube for "Compiz-fusion", you'll find millions of videos made by users showing its features off.
After installing all the needed stuff(see the guide) all you have to do is to enable Widget Layer plugin and use this option for it to work with opera widgets: "role=opera-widget". And that's it, you're done, though it wasn't that easy for me, Compiz was crashing for me, but with help of nice guys at
#compiz-fusion-dev I managed to make a crashlog. 13 minutes after submiting it I got notified that one of the guys already wrote a fix, it was up in the git repository in few more minutes, after that I just downloaded and installed the fixed version.
That's one big plus to the Open Source community, where else would you get a bug fixed that fast?
What was your experience with Open Source software?
Friday, 17. February 2006, 19:07:08
apple, mac, os, x
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Apple hackers who tried to run Mac OS on non apple computers have encountered this poetic warning:
Your karma check for today: There once was a user that whined/his existing OS was so blind/he'd do better to pirate/an OS that ran great/but found his hardware declined./Please don't steal Mac OS!/Really, that's way uncool./(C) Apple Computer, Inc.
Also there are a few more embedded messages for hackers
Friday, 17. February 2006, 19:01:27
apple, worm, mac, os
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First Mac OS X worm discovered
Its called Leap-A, though Leap-A isn't a particularly threatening worm.
Not very dangerouos, but this shows that Mac OS X is vulnerable. I guess there will me more worms created later.
You can read all about it here
Wednesday, 8. February 2006, 15:25:16
os, Phone, phone., life
So i made a decision that nokia n-gage cell phones are attracting burglars too much.
Both my neighbour and my brother got their n-gage stolen after ~2 weeks of usage. Whereas I'm still using my 6600. So be careful. Save yourself and your n-gage.
Friday, 21. October 2005, 13:16:07
opera, os, life
I managed to install opera 9.0 preview on my ubuntu.
I love opera:config menu.
I`ve got a question:
does it support bittorrent?
Saturday, 10. September 2005, 06:06:01
ubuntu, linux, breezy, os
So ubuntu released breezy preview.
News:
* GNOME 2.12 -- Very fresh... Released yesterday!!
* OpenOffice.org 2.0 beta 2
* X.org 6.8.2 with wider hardware support
* An enhanced tool for easily installing new applications
(see "Add/Remove Programs" in the System Administration menu)
* A new tool which makes it easy to install support for
multiple languages (Language Selector)
* Editable GNOME menus
* Applications are now linked into the Launchpad infrastructure
(new entries on the Help menus for translation and support)
* Support for writing audio CDs (Serpentine)
* Graphical boot process with progress bar (USplash)
On the Server
* PHP5
* Support for installing directly onto LVM volumes
* Built-in thin client functionality produced in cooperation
with the LTSP project (http://wiki.ubuntu.com/ThinClientHowto)
* Simple NFS root setup with automatic hardware detection
through initramfs-tools
* Support for up to 4 gigabytes of RAM by default on 32-bit
architectures
* Kernel support for cluster filesystems (OCFS2 and GFS)
You can read more on
HERE
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