The new GNU Grub 2.00 has just been released with all new features and here is how to install it. Firstly, download the tarball from this mailing list post. https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2012-06/msg00093.html. After unpacking the tarball, cd into the folder and type: ./configure –prefix=/usr./configure –prefix=/usr to run the configure script. You will need to install extra libraries … Read more
The Ubuntu 12.10 Alpha has been released and I am taking a first look at this release. The new wallpapers are quite impressive, there is a nice Forbidden City wallpaper and many other lovely photographs gracing this release. The web browser is Firefox 14.0, and the music playback is taken care of by Rhythmbox 2.97. … Read more
The US government has given wireless energy transfer technology to the United Nations for use in a sustainable technology project. The wireless transfer of energy is not new, Nikola Tesla developed the Tesla Coil, a transformer that steps up a voltage, for example 70,000 volts to 15,000,000 volts, without the iron core that conventional transformers … Read more
The Ubuntu 12.10 distribution has a new remote management system called Landscape. This management framework allows a manager of a network of Ubuntu machines to manage all the computers from one location. The Landscape system can manage installation of updates across all of the installed desktops, and make sure all of the installed software and … Read more
The Ubuntu Unity dash is actually quite useful, here I am viewing the recently watched multimedia files and it showing some online videos as well. It is actually very fast as a start menu, you just press the Windows key and it will open, then you type “term” and hit enter and you have opened … Read more
This is a photograph I took a while ago of a flooded river in the evening. The long exposure blurred out the water and gave a nice effect. http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Smokey+SVG?content=62338. This is my old Metacity theme I made in 2007, this uses some original graphics for the window buttons. This wallpaper is the oldest one on … Read more
The ubuntu-tweak utility for Ubuntu is also available for Linux Mint 13. This utility allows the user to configure the Unity desktop. I installed the Myunity application on Linux Mint but it would not run as it detected that I was not running the Ubuntu distribution. The Unity desktop supplied for Linux Mint 13 also … Read more
The Ubuntu 11.10 distribution does support a wide range of hardware, I just bought a Logitech wireless mouse with a nano receiver and it worked instantly once I plugged it in. The mouse would work with Windows as well, my experiences with Windows show that it is slower to load a driver for a USB … Read more
This is a 256 Gigabyte USB flash drive. This shows how far we have come since the early days of portable storage of personal files. This will cost you US$545.67 on Amazon.com and would be able to store a huge movie collection and/or a good supply of music in MP3 or FLAC. Installing a copy of … Read more
The Ridley Scott movie that has just been released, that is a prequel to the first Alien film is a movie that introduces the moviegoer to the Space Jockeys and the Engineers that supposedly created life on this planet. In the novelization of the Alien move the alien race that landed on the planet were … Read more
I recently installed Ubuntu 11.10 on my computer, triple-booting with Linux Mint 12 and Linux Mint 13, this overwrote my boot-loader for my Linux Mint 13 installation. Therefore, after booting into my Linux Mint 13 distribution I re-installed the boot-loader using the command-line. Using the grub-install command to re-install the proper boot-loader to the boot … Read more
I am trying out the Ubuntu Unity desktop again, in Ubuntu 11.10, the design is starting to grow on me, I recently bought a copy of Ubuntu user magazine that came with a copy of Ubuntu 11.10 with extra software included and I decided to try it out. I have not had any problems with … Read more
Listing the free space on your Linux system. Using the df command to list this on the command-line. The df command for Linux will display a listing of your partitions and how much space is available. The -H parameter shows the outputs in human readable formats. ubuntu@ubuntu:~/Documents$ df -Hla Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted … Read more
Microsoft are adopting Linux on their Azure system. This shows that Linux is more reliable than their own Windows Server product. Microsoft used to run their Hotmail E-Mail service on FreeBSD UNIX servers, they do not use that any-more but Linux still has some life left in it, if a huge mega-corporation like Microsoft … Read more
Nice Linux Mint 13 wallpaper I just created. Old abandoned house on a hill.
The rename command for the Linux shell allows you to rename a directory full of files en-mass. This first example, based on the examples in the rename manual page. Firstly renaming a directory full of xhtml files to the html extension. rename ‘s/\.xhtml$/.html/’ *.xhtmlrename ‘s/\.xhtml$/.html/’ *.xhtml And renaming a folder full of Jpeg files with … Read more
Using the text console in Linux Mint is very easy. Access it by pressing Ctrl-Alt-F1. Get back to Xorg by pressing Alt-F9. Some Linux distributions use the virtual terminal tty7 as the one reserved for Xorg, but this can vary. You may open many virtual consoles by pressing Alt-2, Alt-3, or pressing Alt and using … Read more
The FreeBSD UNIX distribution has been adopted by Netflix as the operating system of choice for their streaming movies service. This does not mean that they will be adding code to the FreeBSD codebase, Netflix are planning to host their service on FreeBSD powered Apache servers. FreeBSD is a reliable and powerful server operating system, … Read more
The Fedora 17 Linux distribution has been released with Gnome Shell 3.4.1, Gimp 2.8 and software rendering available for the Gnome Shell desktop, negating the need for the Gnome Shell fall-back desktop if your hardware does not offer proper hardware rendering for the Gnome desktop. Various non-free codecs such as MP3 support, Adobe flash and … Read more
Created by: MBAOnline.com. This is a nice infographic that one of the members of mbaonline.com sent me recently. Microsoft, whilst making a lot of money from selling copies of Windows, especially the copies pre-installed on pre-packaged computers, they still are to get a handle on security as well as making a product that people actually … Read more