December 2007
20 posts
At $1 per Watt Solar Energy Has Arrived →
recordMyDesktop →
Screen cam app for linux with voice over recording capabilities.
Man Carves Wife a 6,000 Stair Path in Mountain →
Liu began, and continue for 50 years, to hand carve steps into the mountain side so that his wife could easily decent from the cave.
Gnome Themes working
Today I finally got to the bottom of why my gnome themes mostly wouldnt work - especially nice ones line ubuntustudio and murrine. The Gnome appearance dialog previews for most themes showed the preview as a corrupted image and there were lots of errors on conole like this:
(gnome-appearance-properties:7554): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_get_data: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)’...
Landsat.org Home Page →
Free landsat data downloads
Top Best 50 Ubuntu Opensource Applications For... →
List of the 50 best opensource applications for Ubuntu, Xubuntu, Kubuntu and Fluxbuntu.
Import tracks and waypoints with GPSBabel
gpsbabel -t -i garmin -o kml -f /dev/ttyUSB0 -F tracks.kml
gpsbabel -w -i garmin -o kml -f /dev/ttyUSB0 -F points.kml
OpenVZ - Installation on Debian →
OpenVZ is a containment virtual environment that you can run on your server (basically chroot but better)
Al Gore: Ignoring Climate Crisis Akin to Appeasing... →
Al Gore, in accepting the Nobel Peace Prize yesterday, drew a comparison between global warming and that awful moment in human history. He suggested those leaders who ignore the threat of climate change now are stuck in a state similar to the state that froze those leaders who appeased Hitler.
Ubuntu Personal Package Archive (PPA) tutorial →
Woman crosses Africa on a tractor →
Steve Jobs to deliver Macworld Expo keynote →
IDG on Monday announced that Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs deliver the keynote address for Macworld Expo 2008. The keynote takes place on Tuesday, January 15, 2008 at 9:00 a.m. in Moscone West in San Francisco. “We’re looking forward to a great show and are thrilled that Steve will once again be kicking it off,” Mary Dolaher, ID
Microwave Tires and Viola! Alternative Fuel →
Frank Pringle wants to use microwave in a vacuum to make alternative fuel from waste tires. How much? With 50 cents’ worth of electricity, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer, he can make a 14-inch car tire into 1.2 gallons of diesel, 7.5 pounds of carbon black, 50 cubic feet of combustible gas and two pounds of — get this — high-strength stee
Dead Easy: Create A Your Own Custom Ubuntu 7.10... →
This guide shows how you can create a Live-CD from yourUbuntu Gutsy Gibbon or Linux Mint 4.0 system with a tool called remastersys. Remastersys is available in the Linux Mint romeo repository. You can customize your Ubuntu/Linux Mint system and then let remastersys create an iso image of it which you can then burn onto a CD/DVD.
Open Clip Art Library Drawing Together →
The most fantastic resource for open source / pulic domain clipart.
November 2007
41 posts
Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) alpha 1 officially... →
Ubuntu 8.04 alpha 1 has officially been released. This early release of Hardy Heron includes Xorg 7.3.