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By Dave, August 29, 2006 2:25 pm

Linux.com | How to recover lost files after you accidentally wipe your hard drive

This should be a must read article for everyone in the IT industry!

I don’t currently have any need for it but still plan to bookmark and print it out just in case.

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By Dave, August 26, 2006 3:57 pm

Syllable – News

Update on this OS.

Okay. I downloaded the live cd and burned it to disk. Rebooted the machine and after a short wait (much quicker than I have ever seen on this machine running any os) got a desktop of 640 x 480.

Found the display control and selected 1024×768 as the closest to correct for this flat screen display (which I need to put something up about) and made the switch. Res looked fair so kept it.

Then tried to get a network connection but gave up after a few minutes of not getting what to do.

Probably just me but I don’t think this is a ready for prime time os. Will look at the network setup and see if I can find a way to get the full 1440×900 out of the monitor setup. If I can get these two items working, will certainly give it a try and see just what all will or won’t work.

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By Dave, August 25, 2006 11:58 am

NewsForge | Syllable: A different open source OS

Sounds like a distro to keep an eye on. Will have to try it soon.

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By Dave, August 22, 2006 7:22 pm

WIKINDX 3
WIKINDX is a free bibliographic and quotations/notes management and article authoring system designed either for single use (on a variety of operating sytems) or multi-user collaborative use across the internet.

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Looks interesting.

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By Dave, August 21, 2006 2:02 pm

TrackMeNot :: Mozilla Add-ons :: Add Features to Mozilla Software

This is one hell of a good idea. Have installed it and am cleaning out my tabs so I can restart Firefox.

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By Dave, August 21, 2006 2:00 pm

Tiny Tiny RSS – Trac

Looks interesting. I would rather read my news on the web anyway and it makes sense to me to have the reader on my site so that any computer I am on has the same history of read and unread feeds. Gonna have to see if I can install it on technoprimitive.org.

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By Dave, August 21, 2006 1:55 pm

grml.org – Linux Live-CD for sysadmins and texttools-users

From what I read somewhere (lost the link) the grml Live-CD has just about everything you need in a recovery disk. Looks interesting enough to download and burn anyway.

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By Dave, August 15, 2006 10:29 am

Vienna

Vienna is a freeware, open source RSS/Atom newsreader for the Mac OS X operating system. It provides features comparable to commercial newsreaders, but both it and the source code are freely available for download.

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Need to give this a try on the iBook now that Shrook has gone to a subscription system.

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By Dave, August 14, 2006 11:44 pm

OpenCyc.org

I have no idea yet but am downloading it to see just what the hell it is.

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By Dave, August 14, 2006 10:49 pm

Freespire 1.0: first impressions :: Linux Format :: The website of the UK’s best-selling Linux magazine

Sounds interesting enough to try, fer sure.

Downloading via bittorrent now from
http://wiki.freespire.org/index.php/Download_Freespire
Looks like it’s an install only. 🙁

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By Dave, June 23, 2006 9:59 am

Plan 9 from Bell Labs

Never run this. Read about it time and time again and guess it’s about time to download and try it now that they have a live cd. 😉

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By Dave, June 22, 2006 8:38 pm

Linux.com | How to keep users from messing up their desktops

😉

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By Dave, June 21, 2006 8:22 am

Linux.com | Vim tips: Folding fun

Bookmark for me mainly.

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By Dave, June 20, 2006 8:29 am

Linux.com | Synergy: One keyboard (and mouse) to rule them all

Since I use mac and linux this looks interesting. I especially like the ability to copy clipboards between computers/systems. Think I tried this several years ago but wasn’t able to get it working and gave up. Sounds like time to try again.

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By Dave, June 18, 2006 12:01 am

freshmeat.net: Project details for Ghost for Linux

The latest and greatest!

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By Dave, June 13, 2006 10:51 am

FreeBASIC compiler (a free BASIC compiler) – official page – About [en]
FreeBASIC – as the name suggests – is a completely free, open-source, 32-bit BASIC compiler, with the syntax the most compatible possible with MS-QuickBASIC, that adds new features such as pointers, unsigned data types, inline-assembly and many others.

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Cool!

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By Dave, June 13, 2006 10:14 am

The table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux. (Official site of the table)

This is a much needed tool! Great to be able to send folks to this site to let them see just what tools are available to replace their propritary windo$ programs.

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By Dave, June 13, 2006 9:31 am

Official Google Blog: Happy Birthday, Google Earth

Google Earth. New, improved, and now for Linux too!

To install on PCLinuxOS and I suspect most linux systems –
Open terminal window.
cd to directory the .bin is located in.
Switch to root user – sudo
Change permissions on .bin – chmod 777 GoogleEarthLinux.bin
Execute .bin – ./GoogleEarthLinux.bin
Follow the onscreen directions.
Waste many hours and no fuel while going nowhere from the comfort of your own computer!

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By Dave, June 11, 2006 8:58 am

How-To: Back-up your blog – Engadget

Looks rather involved but should do the trick.

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By Dave, June 3, 2006 10:43 am

LiveCD Software Solutions

Haven’t tried it yet as my Freesco router is working fine but looks interesting. Especially the minimum hardware requirement specs –

One dedicated computer with the following minimum specifications: 486 Processor, 16 MBytes of RAM, 2X CDRom Reader, Floppy Drive, 1 or 2 ethernet cards. NO hard disk! Optionally a WIFI card.

Cool use for OLD equipment!