The Google self driving car is the future of road transportation. It seems that the days of speeding drivers threatening the lives of other road users and pedestrians could soon be over. The future of road transportation has been thought of for a very long time, with automated cars that would follow sensors in the … Read more
Creating a new user with the Linux command-line is very easy, the command-line adduser command is easier to use than the useradd command and automates a lot of the steps involved in creating a new user and their home directory. The sequence shown below is the simple task of creating a new user and shows … Read more
Computer tape drives were all the rage in the early days of computing, with computer tape drives able to store massive amounts of data these days. The early computers used tape to store computer programs and information on reel to reel tapes that were on giant reels that were threaded on and then read at … Read more
The Gnome Shell desktop on Debian Testing is working very well now, I managed to get the HDMI sound working with the audacious music player using the alsa output. Below is my /etc/asound.conf file containing the settings I am using to listen to my music. Gnome 3 is actually a good desktop environment, I was … Read more
http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Flooded+river+by+night.?content=149792 I took this photograph of a flooded river one night after the flood waters had receded. This shot is very simple and smooth with the water smoothed out by the long exposure.
Installing Debian GNU/Linux Wheezy and the Gnome 3 desktop. How to install the Debian Wheezy distribution with the Gnome Shell desktop using the Debian 6.0 installation media. This is how to install the Debian Wheezy distribution alongside Windows and have a nice dual boot system for experimenting with Linux.
The strange cloud of dust or smoke that is high in the atmosphere of Mars is quite a mystery, it could be a volcanic eruption or an ejection of matter due to an asteroid impact. This is up to 300 KM in height, you can see it reach maximum altitude and then spread out in … Read more
The awesome theme that the Elive Linux distribution used is now available for the latest E17 build. I am currently using it on Debian Testing and it is the best looking theme yet. Just download the theme and import it into your theme manager and it will work out of the box with no need … Read more
Compiling a vanilla kernel tarball from kernel.org on Debian Stable/Testing. Firstly you need to download a vanilla kernel tarball from the kernel.org website. Once you have the tarball downloaded, type tar -jxvf linux-3.3.tar.bz2 and then follow the sequence below. This sequence of commands will build a pair of Debian *.deb packages in your home folder … Read more
The Debian distribution I am using is working very well compared to the Ubuntu and Linux Mint distributions that I was using before. I have installed a 3.3 kernel with the Debian kernel packaging commands and built a kernel tarball and a headers tarball that I was then able to install with the dpkg -i … Read more
Setting the system time with Debian Linux is very simple, using the date command, you may display the current date/time, then copy this to the date -s “” command and then edit it to the proper value. This is the easiest technique to set the Linux system time. This is the existing date. root@deusexmachina:/home/neo# date … Read more
The enlightenment E17 desktop window manager is now available for the Debian testing distribution, now all of those complex steps that were formerly required to install this window manager are a thing of the past. I have installed the enlightened window manager as it is a nice complement to the Debian testing distribution. I used … Read more
I have removed the evil nofollow tag from my website allowing my visitors who type comments to actually gain from Search Engine crawling. I wish I had done this sooner, the nofollow tag is evil, you spend all that time commenting on blogs and you do not gain that much page ranking. It is time … Read more
The Linux kernel 3.3 has been released and among other features that have been included, there is some code from Google Android included. This is an interesting development, this does not mean that you can run Angry Birds on a Debian or Linux Mint system, but this could lead to something cool in the future. … Read more
Using the .inputrc file to control keybindings in xterm. If you wish to control the key bindings for Backspace, Delete, Home & the End keys in Xterm then read on. The ~/.inputrc file in your home directory controls this behavior, using the defines in this file you may control the key bindings and make using … Read more
This code is on my https://securitronlinux.com/linux/ page. It shows a random image and a random webpage link. <?php $time = strftime(“%A %d %B %Y. %r – %Z”); srand(time(NULL)); $day = rand() % 6; $string = sprintf(“<font size=\”2pt\”><p>Welcome to my website.</p>\n”); $links = array(“BejArray” => array(“0” => “perl_code.php”, “1” => “psx_doom.php”, “2” => “cgi_code.php”, “3” => … Read more
The enlightenment E17 desktop on Linux Mint 12 works a million times better than the Ubuntu packages did with 12.04. They were very unstable, but the Linux Mint 12 distribution is as stable as Linux should be. Even if it is a beta release as the Ubuntu distribution was, there is no excuse for the … Read more
This strange sphere the approximate size of the planet Jupiter, about 142,984 Kilometers in diameter is sucking material from the chromosphere of the Sun whilst managing to maintain its position against the massive gravity of the Sun. Which is 1,470,000 Kilometers in diameter. I am sure the video I took this still shot from is … Read more
This is what the new copy dialog looks like on Windows 8. The actual process of copying this amount of data over a USB 3.0 connection was actually very fast, the previous versions of Windows were slower at copying data, but now it is getting faster. And I was copying from a 8 GiB USB … Read more
The Linux file-system tree explained. The standard Linux installation is laid out in various folders that each have a different role to play in the smooth running of a Linux distribution. |-/ |-/bin |-/boot |-/dev |-/etc |-/home/username |-/lib |-/lost+found |-/mnt |-/proc |-/root |-/sbin |-/tmp |-/usr |-/usr/local |-/var|-/ |-/bin |-/boot |-/dev |-/etc |-/home/username |-/lib |-/lost+found |-/mnt … Read more