Monthly Archives: February 2006

Book Review: Linux Cookbook

I just purchased the book, Linux Cookbook from O’Reilly written by Carla Schroder. So far this has been an excellent book, and I would really recommend it to anyone looking for more information about Linux. For the newbie this books … Continue reading

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Current Screenshot

This is my current screenshot on my Ubuntu install. Soon I hope to dual boot with Gentoo, yes I’m still trying to get that work properly. We’ll see how it goes, for now though, drool over the BMW and Enjoy … Continue reading

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gDesklets alternatives

After publishing my last post I went hunting for alternatives to gDesklets. I should of known that of course they exist, but I had never heard of them before. I have not really had the chance to review either one, … Continue reading

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gDesklets – A good idea gone bad

I’m sure anyone who uses Gnome has either heard of or seen gDesklets by now. I don’t know, but I’m pretty sure at this moment there is no KDE or Fluxbox equivalent, but if anyone knows better please correct me. … Continue reading

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Mac OSI X worms found, a first for operating system — Newsday.com

Mac OSI X worms found, a first for operating system — Newsday.com Not Linux related? Wrong! This is very Linux related actually. OSI is, as they call it, a *nix operating system. Meaning that it is based off the original … Continue reading

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Another Great Site for Linux Wireless

NdisWrapper This is a site for people aren’t lucky enough to have a card with Linux drivers released for it. Basically the program you download take the Windows drivers and try to convert them to use in Linux, or in … Continue reading

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Flash Player 8 for Linux

kaourantin.net: Flash Player 8 for Linux update I found this article cruising the internet looking for Flash for my AMD64 Linux setup. Well I didn’t find it of course because Macromedia hasn’t released Flash for AMD64 yet, but according to … Continue reading

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Wireless for Linux

I’ve recently run across some good news in my hunt for a wireless card for my new desktop PC. As you may be aware of wireless for Linux is rather poor shape right now. Well I think wireless period has … Continue reading

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Does Google = Microsoft 2.0 ?

Google, you probably associate the name with fun, quick, and helpful searches on the internet always accompanied by a nice, clean, simple website. You probably don’t normally think about all the things Google isn’t very proud of. You may or … Continue reading

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Gaming on Linux

Gaming. Something most computer gurus consider the only good thing about Windows, its ability to run games without much hassle. In reality Windows is terrible at running games. In fact that’s the whole reason DirectX was created. What DirectX does … Continue reading

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