Improve Your Intelligence with Brain Workshop
Daniel Bartholomew looks at a brain game that might actually make you smarter.
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An Introduction To OSC
Dave Phillips introduces OSC and explains why it makes him a more pleasant fellow.
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Examining the compilation process. part 3.
Mike Diehl discusses the make utility.
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Tables in OpenOffice.org Impress: New and Unstylish
Impress Tables are one of the most welcome features in the recently-released OpenOffice.org 3.0, but they have their limitations.
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HOW-TOs
Bash Sub Shells
November 11th, 2008 by Mitch Frazier in
When writing bash scripts you sometimes need to run commands in the background. This is easily accomplished by appending the command line to be run in the background with an ampersand "&". But what do you do if you need to run multiple commands in the background? You could put them all into a separate script file and then execute that script followed by an ampersand, or you can keep the commands in your main script and run them as a sub-shell.
Bash: Preserving Whitespace Using set and eval
November 5th, 2008 by Mitch Frazier in
If you don't care much about whitespace bash is great: it normally turns multiple whitespace characters into one and it breaks things into words based on white space. If on the other hand you'd like to preserve whitespace bash can be a bit difficult at times. A trick which often helps is using a combination of bash's eval and set commands.
List Open Files
November 4th, 2008 by Jagadish Kavuturu in
If you try to unmount a partition and get a message like this:
# umount /media/usbdisk/ umount: /media/usbdisk: device is busy
use the lsof command to find out what programs are using what files:
NVidia Fan Speed Revisited
October 30th, 2008 by Mitch Frazier in
One of the comments to my last post about adjusting the fan speed on your NVidia graphics card was that what was needed was a script to adjust the speed based on the temperature. The script presented here does just that.
Product Review
OpenMoko's OM2008.9 for the Neo FreeRunner
October 27th, 2008 by Cory Wright in
The OpenMoko project recently released a much-needed update to the official software stack of the Neo FreeRunner. I've had a FreeRunner for a few months and during that time I have used it to run everything from Debian to Qtopia (now known as QT Extended), so when OpenMoko announced the OM2008.9 update I eagerly upgraded to see what it had to offer.
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The Green Penguin – Where Does Your E-Waste Go?
November 19th, 2008 by James Gray in
The article discusses E-Stewards, a new certification program for e-waste recyclers that aims to prevent dumping in landfills and developing countries.
Clueless Linux User - NSFW
November 17th, 2008 by Webmistress in
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Kuklomenos—Weird Space Shooter?
November 11th, 2008 by John Knight in
Kuklomenos has to be one of the weirdest games I've ever come across. I'm not doing a full review here, because I simply can't figure it out! If you want to compile it, go right ahead; it's easy with the usual ./configure, make, make install routine. But, once you get into the game, be prepared to be puzzled.
The Dell IdeaStorm Index
November 10th, 2008 by Doc Searls in
The Dell IdeaStorm site was an inspired move by the company, providing a way for the market to tell a major supplier what to do, rather than the reverse, which has been the default for the whole Industrial Age.
Linux Journal Flickr Pool Roundup
November 7th, 2008 by Carlie Fairchild in
Linux Journal's Flickr pool regularly brings in fun photos from readers around the world.
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Blogs and Opinion
Linux on the Label!
November 18th, 2008 by Shawn Powers
Anyone that uses Linux regularly is familiar with the "Google to see if it works under Linux" procedure before buying any hardware. I was thrilled when I saw the ad for a USB Atari 2600 joystick clone that had a label on the box claiming its Linux compatibility.
Share This: The Internet is a Right
November 14th, 2008 by Glyn Moody
“They order, said I, this matter better in France.” So wrote Laurence Sterne in his 1768 book A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy. Alas, things have changed much since then, at least as far as the Internet is concerned. In the light of recent events, now he would we have to say: they order this matter worse in France. Even more unfortunately, France's bad habits are spreading, and could have serious consequences for free software.
Geek Ranch Accounting Solution
November 13th, 2008 by Phil Hughes
Back in February I wrote about my search for accounting software for the Geek Ranch project.
Getting Past Telco 1.0
November 3rd, 2008 by Doc Searls
It's time to start fixing telecom, even as we're moving past it. If ideas are weather systems, that's the squall I'll bring to the Telco 2.0 Executive Brainstorm in London tomorrow and Wednesday. This is my first time at one (it's the fifth in their series), and I'm looking forward to it.
Best Approach for a Quick & Dirty Desktop Application
October 31st, 2008 by Phil Hughes
I have decided to let the geeks out there solve a problem for me. The problem is writing a quick and dirty solution to a temporary problem. I have an idea but I am interested to see what others have to say.
Sometimes, Control-Z Just Isn't Enough
October 28th, 2008 by Shawn Powers
This week on Linux Journal Live!, Kyle Rankin and I are talking about all the horrifying mistakes we've made as sysadmins. It may be a two part show. :)
Anyway, we were thinking about what sort of contest we should have, and figured maybe we could solicit your horrible stories from the field. So here's the deal:
gOS Android G2 Tribute PC
October 28th, 2008 by Katherine Druckman
Time's running out to get your hands on this cute little green dude that runs gOS Linux.
Psst! Get Crossover Office or Crossover Games Today. FREE!
October 28th, 2008 by Shawn Powers
Remember when I reviewed Crossover Games (cxgames) back in April? If you have been pining for your very own license ever since -- today is your lucky day.
Netbook Showdown on Linux Journal Live!
October 23rd, 2008 by Webmistress
Join editor Shawn Powers and Linux Journal author (and long time KDE contributor) Jes Hall this Thursday evening, Oct 23 at 7:30pm Central, when they discuss mini notebooks and which one you should buy. Remember to bring your questions and ask them in the chat room on the side of the video -- Shawn and Jes will interact with the audience throughout the show. See you there!
Things that make you go hmmm: More on IPv6
October 23rd, 2008 by David Lane
A while ago (a year?) I wrote about my attempts to get an IPv6 address block and start using IPv6. My carrier, Verizon, did not seem to know what I was talking about.
Why Microsoft Wants Us to Get All Mixed Up
October 22nd, 2008 by Glyn Moody
“What's in a name?” some bloke in the sixteenth century once asked. As Microsoft knows, quite a lot. What you call something can have a major influence on how you think about it. So how Microsoft talks about free software is important – not least for the clues that it gives about its latest tactical move to defang the open source threat.
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Linux Journal Live - eBook Readers and DRM
November 14th, 2008 by Shawn Powers in
The November 13, 2008 edition of Linux Journal Live! Shawn Powers and special guest, Linux Journal Author Daniel Bartholomew, talk e-book readers and Daniel's Kindle, DRM, and other goodness.
Run Your Windows Partition Without Rebooting
November 13th, 2008 by Elliot Isaacson in
Dual booting is a necessary evil and very inconvenient. What if you could run your windows partition in a virtual machine, so you wouldn't have to worry about rebooting anymore? With VMWare Workstation, you can.
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December 2008, #176
The Oxford English Dictionary says the word "gadget" is a placeholder name for a technical item whose precise name one can't remember. Like that book-reader thingy from Amazon...what's it called? Spindle, Gindle...Kindle, that's it. Check it out in this month's gadget issue.
Other gadgets covered include the Nokia tablets, the BlackBerry, the Neo FreeRunner, the Dash Express, the Roku Netflix Player, the Kangaroo TV, The TomTom GO 930 and the MooBella Ice Cream System. On the larger hardware front, read the reviews of the Acer Aspire One and the YDL PowerStation. On the software front, check out the articles and columns on memcached, Samba security, Mutt, desktop gadgets, bash and Puppet. To wrap it all up, read Doc's thoughts on Google and the browser platform.
