Posts Tagged ‘linux’

Lubuntu – Lightweight Ubuntu

something to do with your old computers. Have an old computer that you have been kicking around in your closet for a while? Here are a couple suggestions.

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Android Tablet Rumors

Do you think the Ipad is the future? God I hope not.

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Tech Podcasts to start out August Work Schedule

a List of must have podcasts for the work week. try them for one month and come back and thank me later.

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Microsoft backs apache?

Listening to THE LINUX ACTION SHOW

I found that Microsoft has put down a huge fund for apache development.

Crazy stuff. Will they buy it out? Will they steal ideas? Will they do a fair deal and actually contribute and not expect much in return?

KDE 4.1 release

Information gathered from   http://www.kde.org/

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Looks like it is not complete, if you read deeper in , you will see that allot of items we are used to are not implemented yet.  but there is a nice feature,

Windows developers are able to download previews of KDE applications for their platform. The libraries are relatively stable already, although not all features of kdelibs are available on Windows yet. Some applications already run quite well on Windows, others might not.

Looks like kde4.1 is going to go a long way with the abilities aquired when most of Linux signed deals/peace treaties with Microsoft.

Wanna Play GTA Linux?

Here is something I put together for you guys,
and well for myself to look back on, about tree years ago.
Here is the actual location of what you see here

First let’s make sure you do have either a
dual boot machine, or and hard drive with
your install of each game , on it.

I of course am doing this from my windows
partition, but do not doubt using usb type
portable thumbs,which is kinda cool.

I will work this week with grand theft
auto vice city .
Ok, Let’s go get some Wine .
you are going to need it.

Screen shot of install of wine This is
scrolling by like about 90 letters a second

FleX

Next you might need what I needed Flex ,
I use RPM Bone because I am not going
to spend a day trying to learn how to
build a package when I can
just do a search. Well whatever. If you
get a notice that you need to install
anything, the bone will help you, just
select the right distro and you are
good to get.. another File i needed
was BISON.. two seconds three tries
the rpm went well.

Console Usage

Open a console window and type:

apt-get install bison flex libncurses5-dev

Now when you begin the wine install
with this command ” ./tools/wineinstall ”
go get a soda or beer or what ever,
you might wanna grab a
couple, this sucker takes a while, but
look up from time to time it asks a yes
or no and asks you to type in admin pass.

No Cd

* You now need the no cd
crack, I can not legally
* point you to it but be sure to get the
* one that is 15 mb or so, and scan it
* HERE
Navigation

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When you navigate to the
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location, which for me is

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/disks/C/Program Files/

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Rockstar Games/Grand Theft

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Auto Vice City where I have

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the game

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installed, the command

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is “wine gta-vc.exe”or “gta_sa.exe” (which ever game you are working on) and

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your screen will go all

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win 95 looking in the

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crummy resolution sense.

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It will take a few
minutes, you might

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want to hit the enter

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button to get it to start,

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it’s a tad freaky.

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When game starts, look at

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the cars and think about vice

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city stories and liberty city

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stories and how amazed you where

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about the glossy cars…

Do you now see how cheap it was

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when they did it? Screen Shot LOL..

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cool ehh ?

Will update later when I get done

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transferring the audio files from

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cd to install directory.. not all

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audio is working for me just yet.

* Ok you might get an error like this one

err:wave:DSDB_MapBuffer Please run winecfg, open “Audio” page and set

“Hardware Acceleration” to “Emulation”.

which tells you that you are not getting car motor sounds and peds sounds… well.

If you do that you will get those sounds back.. but at a cost… no radio and when you exit game.. dear god it’s a loud noise

New Tech Forum

It’s new , it needs you.

I just built a tech support and rumors forum with a video game and console section.
I hope you people like it.
I will be adding moderators as I see the users with morals sticking around.
I will be banning all clowns as fast as I can and as often as I can. who knows maybe I will redirect them to forums I hate

The goal is to get information and news about tech to the world. and what the hell, to hang out and talk to others like myself.
I don’t see any out there with the same stuff as what I have envisioned so I am making it myself. yes there will be a fight room. Because hey, we all do need to get it out of our systems.
But no fighting in main rooms.

There is avatar and all other options we all have been missing through the past few years as these places seem to get invisible these days.
Yes you can upload your own images to my server, I can handle a fricken lot .
bbcode welcome, html code welcome (for now)

Start a thread and break ground with me.

Choosing a Linux distribution

http://www.helium.com/tm/554548/making-choice-distribution-linux

Making your choice of distribution of Linux is not near as big of a deal as it was 3 – 4 years ago, even though for some reason all of the tech guys lead you to think it is.Really i think it is because of pc repair minded political correctness. The ease and interface is not varied by such a greatness that only techy nerdy guys can use one version and regular people can use another. Anything on one distribution can be used on another.
Let’s break this into 3 popular core distros.
1.fedora
2.debian
3.novell

On fedora you get the two main players. Mandrake and redhat. You get excellent support on either one, there is a slight difference in the look but not the feel. The installs have gone smooth for me every time and easily on many different machines, from mother board and wifi and video card variations. even the freshest of Linux users can install and use fedora smoothly and easily.

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on debian you get a few main players. Knoppix, Linspire, Xandros, and the Ubuntu family.
ubuntu I have to say has the best of all splash screen when it boots up, after that it is really not worth the install.ubuntu is heavy bloated and really limited to what types of installs you can use. pretty much limited to .deb files and source. That operating system is slow, but has some high dollar hype or public viral advertisement. Linspire is a transition os made to make the swap from windows to linux easy. it’s alright and makes alot of usage really easy. Knoppix isnt much different but is a bit more pro feeling. Xandros is the ultimate operating system for those who like a fast operating system without bloat-ware,basic file install works easily with .deb and .rpm with no code to type in or lines to edit.

On novell you get suse . and a bunch of add on software. suse is foreground user of .rpm but recently also took in the use of .deb installs. Suse is the mid mark between ubuntu in it’s nice looks and excessive bloated addons, and Xandros with it’s ease of use and fast performance.

The question you need to ask is “Do I need Performance and speed? or do I need appearance?” if you can not make your mind up on which is more what you want, then go the midway and get suse. after you use suse for a while and get a feel , you might want to think about what you do need and don’t need. You could even consider getting the faster operating system and then adding on only the stuff you would like to see on it. to pretty it up.everything on linux is tweakable. 90% of the addons are free. Sourceforge will be your best friend eventually.

The choice is yours and there is nothing to fear about linux and every big distributed version is safe and easy to install and use. They all can be strong tools and beautied up if needed.It really is not a huge ordeal and adaptation comes quick.

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Upgraded Linux Xandros To 4

I was using Xandros 3.4 for over a year. I purchased my disk from Fry’s electronics for like $29.

Well I saw in all of the help forums for modding of Xandros desktops and boot screens tons of help but it was all for 4.0 so I installed 4.0 . It really looks good and comes with a blue launch button as opposed to the default red I had to use with v3.4 . Quite nice. I changed the start button to a modified that I found through the links of the Xandros forum. with 3.4 when you changed the launch button you kept getting a notice to upgrade service pack, even if you already have. When you do the service pack upgrade it changes your launch button back to default. but with 4.0 , no you do not get forced into the change. Nice addon I like this.

When I installed wine again, not a hiccup one. Not one issue. It went great. My Grand Theft Auto Vice City and San Andreas both play nicely and my III does not freeze up on the video configuration like it did with 3.4.

I am happy with 4.0 it was a very good move.

I was there at Fry’s to actually by a new motherboard and nvidia video card so I could prepare myself for Vista. Thank god I did not get into that mess. Xandros is really good. I did of course remove my Ubuntu partition. Ubuntu is not pleasant at all. Even though Ubuntu is Debian just like Xandros; it does not come close in comparison to Xandros with features. I am satisfied and I hope this helped you decide what you will do to you computer.

enjoy.