Browsers in Linux

Okay. After my Opera link frustration I must admit that I've come back. Firefox was nice and fast at the beginning, but it's got serious issues after using it for a while. And with many tabs it gets slower, it's not very pretty, it takes longer to load, [...]

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Google Ads Experiment Ended

I've ended the experiment with Google Ads and removed all ads. I've earned somewhere between 0 and 8 cents. Looks like my Blog (still) has way too few visitors. I don't even really know from looking at my ad control website. And then they did put some [...]

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Linux Boot in 5 Seconds (with subscriber link)

Linuxhaxor posted a special subscriber link to the long-awaited lwn.net article on how to get (the eee pc) to boot in 5 seconds as part of an (unfortunately superficious and highly redundant) collection of linux tip articles.The lwn article turned out [...]

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James Paick concept spaceship art

James Paick's portfolio. Lots of fantastic work there. Keywords: gnomon school of digital Arts production design 1 class teacher concept artist James Paick digital technical environmental concept ship art desig [...]

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How To Use Leaves in Fall

How To Use Leaves in FallIt's Fall. Your yard is covered with leaves. How do you use those fallen leaves to your advantage? If you do any type of gardening you can make leaf mold with your leaves. And use that leaf mold in your vegetable or flower beds [...]

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Arjan van de Ven Interview

As I mentioned in my last post, O'Reilly interviewed him and it's a quite interesting read. I only disagree on one point. He says "I think there are always going to be keyboards." (...) "it's also the fastest way to get more than a few characters into [...]

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Registration Hell

I know this is an old hat: You have to register for everything. Then came OpenID to the rescue. Only that it's so complicated to actually implement it on the server side and use it on the user side (what exactly do I have to put into the user box?) that [...]

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Ville Ericcson concept ship

Ville Ericcson's portfolio.Keywords: digital concept spaceship render art illustration by from ville ericsson artist from swe [...]

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Bashrc Tipps

Here's a little article with some tips for making your daily shell life easier which at least I have not seen before. They include saving the history of all shells on ex [...]

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Quick Transcoding with Mencoder and Xvid

This little script helps you to quickly transcode any content mplayer accepts to an xvid avi file. It copies the audio track and encodes the video track to xvid in the original resolution in your current directory.#!/bin/bash# mencode.sh (c) 2008 linux-tipps.blogspot.com# [...]

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Iron - Chrome after Rehab

Some German developers put Google's Open Source Chrome browser into a rehab and removed most of it's spying functions. They call it Iron and you can already download it for Windows. It's from German developers but works fine in English. Be aware that [...]

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Ben Goldacre - Hypocrite

Book Review - PositiveHealth.comGreat review of Ben Goldacre's book. It's apparently a collection of essays from Goldacre's Guardian column which you can read for free online.Goldacre slags off his peers as "churnalists" so it's only a matter of time [...]

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A selection of works from conceptships.org

I would like for all of the weekly headers to be animated. It would be great to collaborate with other artists and make some high quality/definition animated Flash loops for the top there... Sort of an animated magazine [...]

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Ein krank(machende)s Gesundheits-System? Panorama berichtet online ...

Ein krank(machende)s Gesundheits-System? Panorama berichtet online ... Von PANORAMA ein erschreckender Bericht über die neue Gesundheits-Reform: Je kränker, desto besser – Die absurde Logik der neuen Gesundheitsreform.Von PANORAMA ein erschreckender [...]

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Concept ships by Bjorn Borkur Eriksson

See more of Bjorn's work at borkurart.Keywords: concept spaceship art from by lead artist illustrator at ccp whitewolf iceland Bjorn Borkur Eriks [...]

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OpenOffice Tips

LinuxPlanet has a nice article with some tips for efficient OpenOffice (Writer) usage.I always recommend continually saving with a new filename if you're working on a big document, e.g. Important00, Important 01, (...). This means that if your current [...]

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Syntax Highlighting in Nano

You can easily activate a pretty nice syntax highlighting in the small nano text editor, by putting these lines into your ~/.nanorc:include "/usr/share/nano/c.nanorc"include "/usr/share/nano/patch.nanorc"include "/usr/share/nano/sh.nanorc"See what else [...]

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Breast is Best

Bloomberg.com: Asia: "The Geneva-based World Health Organisation (WHO) says exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months of a child's life is the single best strategy for the infant's survival, growth and development."The recent scandal in China [...]

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Concept ships by Velocity Kendall

Check out this thread on conceptart.org.Keywords: industrial architectural automotive concept vehicle planes spaceships sail boat high speed trains digital design drafting paint art from by velocity kend [...]

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Concept ship models by Bearfoot films

Neil Maccormack's art portfolio.Keywords: bearfoot films based in geneva switzerland Neil Maccormack concept spaceship 3D models illustrations art design technical propeller ships over ocean glider plane polygons lightwave [...]

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Concept spaceship art from Mass effect by Derek Watts

Spaceship art images from the Art of Mass Effect book. Some images from the book.Keywords: mass effect video game concept spaceship art by Derek Watts BioWare Demiurge Studios (PC)Microsoft Game Studios Action role-playing [...]

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China's food safety chief resigns over poisoned milk scandal | World news | guardian.co.uk

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How To Make a Homemade Ice Pack

How To Make a Homemade Ice PackYou may, at one time or another in your life, find yourself needing a homemade ice pack. A sprained ankle. An aching back. It doesn't matter what the condition is, you'll just want relief, and quick! You can make an ice [...]

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Chrome Developer's Channel

There's now a Chrome Developer's Channel available with automatically installed bleeding-edge versions of Chro [...]

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Ubuntu Restricted Extras

I just found out how easy it is to install all that good stuff to be able to listen to mp3s and everything:sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extrasYou must of course first check the legal situation of these packages in your count [...]

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Multiseat Display Manager Out Now

The Multiseat Display Manager is now out and (hopefully) helps you to set up a multiseat environment (much) easier than before.I have always wondered when a software such as the MDM would come out, as the Unix and X architecture is already perfectly [...]

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Maciej Kuciara concept spaceship art

Maciej's web site and blog. Art director at Crytek studios.Maciej Kuciara conceptships weekly header #28 September 19th - September 26th, 2008Keywords: art director at crytek studios concept spaceship art design by from [...]

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Leo Delauncey concept ship art

Leo's works.Keywords: concept spaceship on launch pad rocket airplane art from leo delauncey portfolio on carbonm [...]

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Concept ships on Wired!

I've collaborated with WIRED on a concept spaceship art article...Check it! Also... Shouts go out to boingboing and io9... Drawn.ca...And all of the artists featured here on Concept ships. Thanks for the support!Keywords: [...]

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Conceptual spaceship art by Spyros Verykios

Spyros' portfolio.Keywords: oil on paper comic panel concept spaceship art design the seed magilon ltd by spyros veryk [...]

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'Brainy Bread' Saves Environment

Response Source | Press Releases - Brainy Bread Now Affordable With Omega 3 Algae Oil Food Ingredient - Could Save EnvironmentOmega 3 Brainy Bread, Pasta, cheese and yoghurts could save the planet!The company that gave us [...]

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Chrome on Linux Now Really Easy

CodeWeavers has ported Google Chrome to Linux using Wine. You can download packages here.Update: In my experience the package is not really worth trying. I had much better results running it with normal wine as mentioned before. The CodeWeavers package [...]

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Don't try Multi Head Configurations with KDE 4.1

There are several issues up to KDE 4.1 in multiple display configurations, so I can not recommend using KDE 4 for that purpose (yet).See these bugs for more:https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=163057https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162623 https [...]

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Vitamin B12 Protects Brain

Minyanville - Market Commentary, Investing Ideas, Global Finance, The Economy: "Anna Vogiatzoglou, a member of the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics at Oxford, in a prepared statement on brain shrinkage said that “Research shows that Vitamin [...]

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Concept ship by graphmac

Neil's Deviant art page.Keywords: green concept ships vehicle spaceship hover design by graphmac neil smoke propulsion thrust [...]

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Plasma Crash on Start Since Last Update

Since the last time I've updated my Ubuntu KDE 4.1.1 packages, plasma keeps crashing every single time I start KDE4. I think I'll try a mv ~/.kde4 ~/.kde4-crash ...So my recommendation: Skip the KDE 4.1.1 upgrades for n [...]

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Correct Ink Printer Usage

No matter if you use your printer under Linux or Windows, there's a couple things you should do to extend your printers life time and reduce your ink usage:Keep the Printer connected to the power outlet. (Do turn it off, though.) The energy this costs [...]

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Battlestar Galactica concept ships by Richard Livingston

Richard sent me some high resolution Battlestar Galactica concept art. Thanks so much! Check out the scale on the header image... Insane. More of Mr. Livingston's Battlestar Galactica concept art HERE.Richard Livingston [...]

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How To Get Engine Grease Out of Clothes

How To Get Engine Grease Out of ClothesI love working on cars and trucks. But with some projects you'll find me covered in engine grease and grime and it inevitably ends up staining my clothes. You can use a commercial laundry detergent to try to remove [...]

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Safely Reboot a Crashed Linux

You need to press Alt + Print, hold it and press R E I S U B (without the spaces).Now your kernel *should* sync and unmount the filesystems and then reboot.Found in 10 tips for lazy admi [...]

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3D concept ship model by Tim Cameron

Tim Cameron's website. Check out the motorcycle designs.Keywords: tim cameron design 3d three dimensional modeling technical design illustration concept art out of australia concept sh [...]

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DIE LÖSUNG

DIE LÖSUNGIn dem Buch "Die Lösung" wird in einer klaren, einfachen Sprache das Geschäftsprinzip, die Art und Weise ohne Beschönigung und Schnörkel dargelegt. Wer dieses Buch ernsthaft der Reihe nach durcharbeitet (Dauer: ca. 1,5 Stunden) wird danach [...]

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Sysctl for Network Perfomance

The short version:net.ipv4.tcp_fin_timeout = 15net.ipv4.tcp_keepalive_time = 1800net.ipv4.tcp_window_scaling = 0net.ipv4.tcp_sack = 0net.ipv4.tcp_timestamps = 0net.ipv4.icmp_ignore_bogus_error_responses = 1net.ipv4.conf.all.log_martians = 1net.ipv4.tcp_max_syn_backlog [...]

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The Great Sysctl Mystery

Most advanced Linux users with know the sysctl interface for fine-tuning the Linux kernel. But there is probably noone on earth who really understands all those parameters. Well no wonder, as they're usually not even documented.So I just thought to [...]

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The World in Danger

When the Large Hadron Collider was activated for the first today there was a very disconcerting picture leaked.Also check out this com [...]

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Project Cosmos concept ships by Nate Temple

Tovette's post on conceptships.orgKeywords: concept spaceship art from nate temple project cosmos series concept [...]

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DHA and Breastfeeding Boost Baby Brains

Eating Fish While Pregnant, Longer Breastfeeding, Lead To Better Infant Development, Research FindsHere's another study , this time from Denmark, backing up the findings that omega 3 long chain fatty acids DHA and EPA and [...]

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Git Bisecting the Linux Kernel to Find Bugs

You can help the Linux developers by testing out the current bleeding edge version of Linux by downloading the current version from git:git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.gitAnd then you can compile the kernel [...]

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Dan Blomberg on concept ships

Dan's website.Keywords: dan blomberg aka rassel tassel concept artist freelance illustrator digital painter residing in barcelona sp [...]

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When Community does not Help: Ubuntu Maintainers keep their hands still about NetworkManager Memory Leak

There is a bug report about the current networkmanager memory leak at launchpad since March now. At that time the current Release was not even out. But the maintainers at Ubuntu are so passionately careless about it that they haven't even commented on [...]

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Concept ships by Andrew Melnychuk-Oseen

Andrew's portfolio.Keywords: concepts spaceship art be Andrew Melnychuk-Oseen aka depleted artist for blur studio venice california digital concept art [...]

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Latencytop Explained

I hope you all know what powertop is - at least if you own a Laptop with Linux on it - but I always had trouble with the wonderfully non-intuitive interface to LatencyTop. But now there's an article on Linux.com explaining [...]

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Debian Packages the Easy Way

Ever wanted to create a debian package so your package manager knows about the program you installed from source and helps you with the clean up or upgrades? Do you configure; make as usual and then simpy give it asudo checkinstall -DYou may of course [...]

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Using IrDA on Linux

Using IrDA under Windows is quite simple. It just works. On Linux it took me literally hours to get it working. But you might get it working much faster with these tips ;-)A very useful website was this one: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/IrDA/#debugYou [...]

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Memory Usage - Pidgin vs. Kopete

The GTalk outage gave me some time to run another test of pidgin vs. kopete in memory consumption. Pidgin used to always win this competition, which is - next to the then better working file transfers - why I use pidgin. I tested it again today and this [...]

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Google Server Problem

Google wasn't especially known for server problems so far. But it seems recently there have been outages or slow service in Gmail and other Google online services. So if your Google Talk account doesn't work today don't worry - you're not the only o [...]

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How To Tell the Age of a Tree

How To Tell the Age of a TreeYou can tell how old a tree is, or the age of a tree, by counting the dark rings from a trunk cut section of the tree. You will notice that trees have a very dark center in the tree. This is known as the pith. Start counting [...]

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Google Chrome under Linux with WINE

It turns out the guys at WineHQ already figured out how to run Google Chrome within WINE. Heres a really easy quick guide for you:Get a current wine version (1.1.3+)Download the Chrome offline installer.Install normally, best with a fresh wine installation.Go [...]

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Keith Thompson concept ships

Keith Thompson's art gallery. Tons of fantastic stuff on his site... A must check. Keith's character design dvd from the gnomon workshop.Keith Thompson conceptships weekly header #26 September 5th - September 12th, 2008Keywords: [...]

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