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Send Valentine's Over Twitter
via Twitter Blog by Biz on February 13, 2008
Lots of folks are noticing a little feature we added for Valentine's Day. Send @username along with <3 and see what happens!
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Google Sponsors Wine Improvements
via Google Open Source Blog by Leslie Hawthorn on February 13, 2008
By Dan Kegel, Software Engineering Team and Wine 1.0 Release ManagerAs you may know, Google uses Wine to implement Linux support for Picasa. Beyond that, Google has been supporting Wine in several other ways.Perhaps the biggest news is that we hired Codeweavers to make Photoshop CS and CS2 work better under Wine. Photoshop is one of those applications that Desktop linux users are constantly...
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OLPC Help: Replacing the XO Laptop Keyboard
via One Laptop Per Child News by (Wayan Vota) no_spam@olpcnews.com on February 13, 2008
Have you experienced the "sticky keyboard" issues that plagued the G1G1 XO laptops from OLPC? Did you RMA your laptop and then wait with bated breath for a replacement XO to appear on your door?Hacking the XO form factorFools! You should have gone Constructionist learning like a 5-year old girl in Nigeria and built your own XO laptop hospital . Or you could be cool like Jacob Rose and upgrade...
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Darl McBride Leaving SCO?
via Slashdot: Linux by CmdrTaco on February 15, 2008
JoGiles writes "Linux-watch is reporting that while The SCO Group may go on to pursue its plans with a $100 million buyout, it will do so without its longtime CEO Darl McBride. Buried in the proposed MOU (Memorandum of Understanding) between Unix vendor and Linux litigator SCO and SNCP (Stephen Norris & Co. Capital Partners) is the note that "upon the effective date of the Proposed Plan of...
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Dell Set to Introduce AMD's Triple-core Phenom CPU
via Slashdot: Hardware by Zonk on February 16, 2008
An anonymous reader writes "AMD is set to launch what is considered its most important product against Intel's Core 2 Duo processors next week. TG Daily reports that the triple-core Phenoms — quad-core CPUs with one disabled core — will be launching on February 19. Oddly enough, the first company expected to announce systems with triple-core Phenoms will be Dell. Yes, that is the same...
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Design your own desktop with Xfce 4.4 - part 2
via Xubuntu Blog by Vincent on February 14, 2008
By popular demand, I decided to push the limits of Xfce’s customisability even further. This time, I would make it look like Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard”.Despite efforts like Mac4Lin, this task proved more difficult than trying to make it look like Windows Vista. Though I haven’t achieved the same degree of perfection as I did when replicating Vista, I still think I came pretty close.First of...
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Design your own desktop with Xfce 4.4
via Xubuntu Blog by Vincent on February 09, 2008
Xfce is just as customisable as KDE or GNOME, so I set myself a goal: make Xubuntu look like Windows Vista. Why? Because I can.Though you won’t be told how to achieve the exact same end result (Microsoft™©® most likely would not appreciate that), this guide provides comprehensive instructions helping you make Xubuntu look the way you want it to. In any case, I would certainly not recommend...
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OLPC Hacks: XO Laptop Spy Camera or Motion Detector
via One Laptop Per Child News by (Wayan Vota) no_spam@olpcnews.com on February 17, 2008
Motion detection spy camLet's say you have an XO laptop from One Laptop Per Child. And you want to record events in your surrounding environment. Activity that may occur when you're not around. How could you make the XO laptop a remote sensing device?First we have an interesting hack by Edward Robinson that turns the X0 laptop into a spy camera:After jumping onto the #OLPC freenodeirc...
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HP Laserjet 1010 บน Ubuntu 7.10
via वीर by वीर on February 18, 2008
ใช้ HPLaserjet1010 ผ่าน Samba + CUPS บน Ubuntu 7.10 ได้แล้ว. แต่ก่อนตอนใช้ 7.04 เหมือนจะ printer ไม่ออกเข้าใจว่ามีปัญหาเรื่อง driver. แต่ว่าตอนนี้ออกแล้ว....
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