Archive for the ‘Linux’ Category
Tuesday, November 1st, 2005
Index of /despair-linux
Some funny, some lame, but it's a start, anyone care to produce some more Linux, or Open Source despair themed posters?
* fo0bar should probably put up an index page one of these days or something < @CrackMonkey> or at least a README.TXT
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Thursday, October 6th, 2005
NSLU2-Linux - HowTo / OverClockTheSlug
I still need to get a slug to mate with my wrt54g and see if I can breed a gps enabled dashboard wardriving webcam.
Overclocking (De-underclocking) the Linksys NSLU2! (or how to get your own TurboSlug)
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Wednesday, September 7th, 2005
ImprovedSource - Boot Fedora Linux Faster: How I Modified Fedora To Boot In Under 25 Seconds
Trying this tonight on my FC4 box.
Everyone wants a quick boot time, from the beginner user to the advanced user, this is a issue that bothers us all. As Linux has advanced it has increasingly ...
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Monday, August 29th, 2005
Boot loader showdown: Getting to know LILO and GRUB
If you're not a linux geek, skip this article.
Nice article on how boot loaders and how they work.
Most simply, a boot loader loads the operating system. When your machine loads its operating system, the BIOS reads the first 512 bytes of your ...
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Wednesday, May 25th, 2005
Nokia unveils Linux-based web device without phone - Yahoo! News
PARIS (Reuters) -
Nokia unveiled on Wednesday a pocket-sized Web browser for wireless broadband networks, which is the Finnish firm's first
Linux-based device and its first product without a built-in mobile phone.
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The new device, dubbed Nokia 770, has a four inch horizontal touch ...
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Sunday, May 22nd, 2005
SLYNUX Operating System - Homepage
Might have to try ou the live CD for this soon.
SLYNUX is a user friendly GNU/Linux Operating System for beginners. It can be run completely from CD without installation. There is also options to install to hard disk. The main feature of this operating system is ...
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Friday, April 22nd, 2005
http://www.r50rd.co.uk/research/internal/v2i/engin/
This has quite a few broken links and such, but there is some cool stuff on here.
I first had the vision to build a robot while working as an engineer on the
old Mini Coopers in the late 1960s. There were no real robots at the time of
course, so it was ...
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Monday, March 28th, 2005
[AiboHack] ZipIt Software Reflashing
Hack the $100 zipit (cheaper on ebay) to run Linux and some custom apps. Looks like a tight fit without much RAM or Flash, but certainly a cool hack.
# A Zipit device you are willing to screw up (see warnings above)
# A Windows PC (Windows XP ...
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Saturday, March 26th, 2005
Main Page - Linpedia - Your daily dose of GNU/Linux
Looks like there are a few interesting articles and difinitions up already. It appears though that they need to add synonyms for some words. Searching for kernel yielded no results. the page is titled "Linux Kernel".
Linpedia ...
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Friday, March 25th, 2005
Seth Nickell - Design Fu : xshots
Cool new eye candy coming to Fedora.
The wobbly window effect is mildly addictive. Kristian hasn't gotten much work done since he wrote it. He (and now I) spends all day moving windows around and watching them settle.
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Friday, March 4th, 2005
Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide
An amazing book on the BASH shell. I think I've learned more in the last half hour than I have in the previous 8 years. The book (all available online) includes many advanced topics including variable scope, sub scripts, and parallel processing.
Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide
An in-depth exploration ...
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Friday, March 4th, 2005
Picking Off Podcasts in Linux | Geektime Linux
Tony's got a good article over at Geektime about running iPodder on Linux. Tony has even started his own podcast, The Roadhouse where he discusses "The finest blues you've never heard".
If you keep in touch with the tech world, you've already heard ...
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Thursday, March 3rd, 2005
New Scientist Breaking News -
iPod 'squeaks' betray software secrets
You think this guy has ever had sex?
Computer enthusiasts have worked out how to reprogram Apple's iPod music player with their own code using an ingenious acoustic trick.
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