Linux Magazine ran an article highlighting x2go, a free, open source terminal server project that includes clients that run on any Linux distribution, and Windows as well.
I just "found" kdirstat for KDE. It is a very nice program, that does have a Windows clone called WinDirStat. To install this program using Kubuntu, just use
$ sudo apt-get install kdirstat
and use the CLI to invoke it using kdirstat. There is no menu item..at least one didn't show up for me.
Now Google Wave? What is it, a full moon? Oh..yes, it is.
Search queries for "Michelle Obama" surged today as a doctored photo of the first lady appeared on the first page of Google's search results. Many in the media are reporting that Google has taken out an advertisement apologizing for the image. This isn't completely accurate.
I was watching a rerun of Family Guy on Fox the other night and noticed a strange omission. The episode, originally aired during our latest presidential election, featured the characters Stewie and Brian using a time machine to go back in time to Germany during the reign of Hitler and the Nazi party.
The update of Google Maps today brings Google Navigation Beta! This update provides turn by turn, spoken directions using GPS and integrates street view. =)
You're going to watch it, right? 11:30 on Cartoon Network.
Working with grub used to be somewhat of a pain. The biggest complaint being that if you, say, disabled apic using the noapic boot option, and updated the kernel without updating the grub file, you could be stuck with a kernel panic. This was happening to me tonight when working with jeos and VirtualBox.
Automagic has made this a whole lot easier. There are automagic options in /boot/grub/menu.lst that are used when any kernel is installed into the system.
Our floor used to squeak very badly in several spots. Fixing a squeaky floor can be a challenge.
Floors squeak for a variety of reasons. The most common is the nails that hold the sub-floor down coming loose from the joist and squeaking.
Fixing them means getting under the house, unless we're talking about a floor that isn't a ground floor, or getting under the house isn't an option. If that's the case, good luck.
The kit that's sold in stores that uses break away screws through the carpet did not work for me. It made the problem worse in our situation.
A very handy trick using the Bash shell in Linux involves the curly braces. The Bash manual at gnu.org defines brace expansion as "a mechanism by which arbitrary strings may be generated."
I use this mostly when working with files, especially making back ups of configuration files. For example, to copy /etc/X11/xorg.conf to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup, you could do this:
$ cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup
or you could use brace expansion
