March 21st, 2007 at 1:30 pm (Linux Articles, Community News)
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Author: Falko Timme
Last edited 03/16/2007
This tutorial shows how you can display weather forecasts, system information like CPU and memory usage, news feeds, music player controls, etc. on a GNOME desktop with gDesklets. gDesklets is a programm that can place small desktop widgets on top of the user’s desktop.
March 16th, 2007 at 9:19 am (Technology Articles, Community News)
The New York Times and C/Net have an insightful story today about Google’s latest addition to its data center called the Googleplex. It is massive. Read this excerpt from the article “
The rate at which the Google computing system has grown is as remarkable as its size. In March 2001, when the company was serving about 70 million Web pages daily, it had 8,000 computers, according to a Microsoft researcher granted anonymity to talk about a detailed tour he was given at one of Google’s Silicon Valley computing centers. By 2003 the number had grown to 100,000.
March 11th, 2007 at 7:44 pm (Linux Articles, Community News)
This short guide shows some important commands for your daily work on the Linux command line.
Outputs the processor architecture.
$ arch
i686
Outputs the contents of a file.
$ cat lorem.txt
March 8th, 2007 at 10:38 pm (Linux Articles, Community News, Windows Articles)
The largest dilemma I continue to face coming from Windows to OS X is an ideal web browser. For Windows users, it’s an obvious choice, Firefox. It’s fast, it’s got tabs, extensions, themes, inline searching, spell checking, you can even run IE as a tab within Firefox, it has everything. Why would you use anything else?
March 4th, 2007 at 1:52 pm (Linux Articles, Mobile Phones, Community News)
I ended my previous article (Linux on the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet) by saying that the release of the OS 2006 prepared the way for some serious VOIP work. The 770 can now make SIP-based VOIP phone calls and is more like what you’d expect from Nokia–a phone!
February 27th, 2007 at 7:59 pm (Linux Articles, Server Administration, Community News)
Say, you’ve got an SVN for your OpenSource project and would like to mirror it to some remote location that hosts opensource projects (such as SourceForge.net or dev.java.net). I’ll skip the phase of an account and project registration and assume you’ve already got your credentials and SVN repo url. I also assume you are on Debian or Ubuntu and your SVN is up and running under Apache httpd.
February 25th, 2007 at 11:49 pm (Community News)
A mobile phone that biodegrades into a sunflower and a circuit board made out of lasagne are just two of the innovative examples of green mobile phone technology revealed in a new Science Museum exhibition opening in London on March 29 2006.
February 25th, 2007 at 11:06 pm (C/C++/Visual C Articles, Community News)
Source: http://howtoforge.com/beginners_guide_to_cplusplus
This tutorial is written for everyone: even if you’ve never programmed before or if you have used other languages and want to expand into C++! It is for everyone who wants the feeling of accomplishment from a working program.
February 24th, 2007 at 10:09 pm (Linux Articles, Community News)
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Author: Falko Timme
Last edited 02/17/2007
With the release of Microsoft’s new Windows operating system (Vista), more and more people are looking for alternatives to Windows for various reasons. This tutorial is the first of a series of articles where I will show people who are willing to switch to Linux how they can set up a Linux desktop (Fedora Core 6 in this article) that fully replaces their Windows desktop, i.e. that has all software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge.
February 23rd, 2007 at 10:47 am (Game and Gamers, Community News)
In many ways, this is the perfect picture to describe the console situation in Japan. The Nintendo Wii and Ds are both sold out, Sony (not really but metaphorically speaking) is trying to get people to buy their PS3 and the Xbox 360 is no where to be seen. I’d say you couldn’t craft a more perfect picture!
