Disabling Touchpad on Demand

There's now an alternative to using the shared memory of the synaptic driver to enable and disable the touchpad:xinput set-int-prop "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" "Synaptics Off" 8 1 (enable)xinput set-int-prop "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" "Synaptics Off" [...]

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Tenjin Hidetaka art works of Macross Valkyries

Amazing book featuring Japanese artist Tenjin Hidetaka. That is seriously some of the best aircraft art I've ever seen. Happy Halloween!Tenjin Hidetaka conceptships weekly header #33 October 31st - November 7th, 2008 Keywords: [...]

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Hier konkret!

Hier konkret!Frontal21Pharmamafia-SelbstmordWarum verstehen die Menschen die einfachen Dinge für ein gesundes Leben so schwer ? Eine Antwort liegt darin, daß bestimmte Interessensgruppen mit einem enormen Machteinfluß gar kein Interesse daran haben. [...]

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How To Clean Resin Patio Furniture

How To Clean Resin Patio FurnitureCleaning resin patio furniture doesn't have to be a huge chore. If your outdoor resin furniture has stains, mold or is just plain weather-beaten you can have it looking fantastic again in no time at all. While there [...]

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Concept ships by Bruno Werneck

Bruno's website.Keywords: concept artist from rio de janeiro working at midway games bruno werneck concept spaceship art designs filmpaint. [...]

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Workaround for Screen Flickering in Kubuntu 8.10

Okay, I've got a dirty hack for now to work around the flicker problem in Kubuntu 8.10. You can edit /usr/bin/startkde and comment out the line starting ksmserver (kwrapper4 ksmserver).Then instead write kwrapper4 krunner &kwrapper4 plasma &kwrapper4 [...]

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Google's Lack of Response to Security Threats

Google criticized a security researcher for publishing information about a security vulnerability in the android platform. They had no reason and don't do anything to motivate researchers tells us the article at cn [...]

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Voting Machines Are Good - Homer Votes

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How To Make Brown Sugar

How To Make Brown SugarMany people buy brown sugar at the grocery store, but you can make your own homemade brown sugar with just two simple ingredients:Brown Sugar Ingredients:1 - Cup of Sugar1 - Tablespoon of MolassesPour the sugar into a bowl and [...]

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Concept ship designs from Motorsports 2025

Design challenge hosted by Design Los Angeles.Keywords: concept design challenge from design los angeles as part of the la auto show exhibit automobile design concept ships from audi honda vw volkswagen toyota mercedes-benz [...]

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How To Mix Concrete

How To Mix ConcreteI've mixed concrete for many projects around the house. For everything from sidewalks to filling post holes. Learning how to mix it really isn't all that hard. For most small projects you can get away with using bags of pre-mixed concrete [...]

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Arora - A Webkit Browser

Today I accidentally stumbled about Arora, another simple webkit based browser. And I'm very pleased. It's quite fast, renders webpages without errors, is google-mail, etc. compatible, and has a basic interface that's very similar to Firefox(tm).That's [...]

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Apt-Get Tipps

TuxArena put up a nice summary of some useful apt-get commands.I have to correct them in one point: For dpkg -L to work, the package needs to be installed already.I also have a few extra ones:apt-cache search (search packages)apt-cache show (show full [...]

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Anthony Colard concept ships

Anthony's Car design news portfolio.Keywords: preparing a master in transportation and space design for 2009 concept designer anthony colard concept ship art car design news .com portfolio french student designer in transportation [...]

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Free CrossOver - Today Only!

You can download full versions of CrossOver Linux and Mac for free from their webpage tod [...]

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How To Make Egg Omelets - Easy Omelet Recipe

How To Make Egg Omelets - Easy Omelet RecipeIf you've always wanted to learn how to make an easy omelet, now you can. No skillet involved. Just a couple of eggs, a Ziploc bag and whatever omelet fillings you desire. You can even make a homemade egg and [...]

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Ubuntu 8.10 No-Go for Dual Head

Don't upgrade your Ubuntu to 8.10 if you want to use a dual head setup. There second screen will reguarly turn off for a second while there is an edid ddc scan shown in the Xorg.log. (The bug is not really fixed or fix not in main repository yet. Or [...]

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Concept ship sketches by Mikko Kinnunen

Mikko's website.Keywords: bioware edmonton entertainment visual concept artist Mikko Kinnunen concept vehicle spaceship art concept ships artbymikko. [...]

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Ubuntu Getting Slower

After upgrading to Ubuntu 8.10 (release candidate), I've recently noticed stuttering in video playback. That might very well also be related to my using the intel 2.5.0 xorg driver. But Phoronix now made a correct examination and found out Ubuntu is [...]

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Vegans Answers for Optimum Nutrition?

Vegans May Have Answers to Optimum Nutrition Says Leading Nutritionist, Yvonne Bishop-WestonMetabolic Inflamation Thwarts Weight LossThe nutritionist says "researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison recently revealed [...]

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How To Keep Your Hands Soft When Gardening

How To Keep Your Hands Soft When GardeningTired of rough hands after digging in the dirt? Not only do goatskin gloves keep your hands clean while gardening, but they're also naturally rich in skin conditioning lanolin. Don't want to go to the expense [...]

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How To Remove a Tick - Tick Bites

How To Remove a Tick - Tick BitesAlright, first you grab your propane torch and light it and then....no wait!! That's for glazing a ham. If only removing ticks properly were so easy. OK. The first thing you want to do is find the nasty little parasites [...]

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How Much Milk Per Day - Source of Calcium

How Much Milk Per Day - Source of CalciumHow much milk should you really drink per day? No more than 1-2 8 ounce servings of milk per day for a good source of calcium is what most dietitians recommend. Higher daily intakes of milk have been found to [...]

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Mode Setting with IntelFB

Let me begin by stating that the intelfb driver is very old already. And there are issues. Mode setting with "non-CRT" devices usually fails:intelfb: Non-CRT device is enabled ( LVDS port ). Disabling mode switching.intelfb: Video mode must be programmed [...]

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Trouble Uninstalling a Package?

Sometimes you're trying to install or uninstall a package, but the process aborts, because the installation script fails. I think there was an option in apt-get or dpkg to override this behavior, but for now there's a very simple workaround that will [...]

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Concept helicopter gunships from Bolt

Check out this dynamic trailer from Disney's new animated feature film... BOLT.Bolt conceptships weekly header #32 October 24th - October 31st, 2008 Keywords: walt disney pictures new animated feature 3d film bolt starring [...]

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Encyclopedia of Life

A website mapping (or trying to) all life on our cosy little planet Earth. Why go to other planets to find life if you need not go father than your backyard? Out now: eol.org.Also check out this interview with the found [...]

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How To Remove Norton Anti-Virus Software

How To Remove Norton Anti-Virus SoftwareHow do you get rid of Norton Anti-Virus Software or any other Norton products when you can't remove it through the add/remove programs in the control panel, you ask? Well, many people have problems removing a failed [...]

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Concept ships by Marcin Jakubowski

Marcin's portfolio.Keywords: concept spaceship train vehicles professional illustrator marcin jakubowski living in poland a.k.a. balloontree. [...]

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Flash 10 in Ubuntu 64 Bit

There's a nice little script that does the entire installation automatically. Worked great for me. Make sure you check the contents of the script, it's not a lot. And when you run a script as super-user you should always do that. Then do sudo bash [...]

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World Vegan Day Health Appeal to Pasta Pizza Hut Restaurants by Nutritionists

World Vegan Day Health Appeal to Pasta Pizza Hut Restaurants by NutritionistsPizza Hut apparently plan to change their name to Pasta Hut causing millions of American children to have to relearn that dreadful summer camp [...]

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SketchUp concept ship model by Mack Sztaba

Mack Sztaba's website.Keywords: 3d three dimensional model using google sketchup sketch up drafted by mack sztaba mackart [...]

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Industrial motion art concept spaceship clip

Check out this demo reel from Industrial motion art.Keywords: (IMA) INDUSTRIAL-MOTION-ART post production visual effects services for film advertising computer animations photo realistic cgi visualizations and digital effects [...]

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20 'functional foods' for a long life

Revealed: The 20 functional foods you should be eating for a long and active life | Mail Online20 types of food and drink have been identified by Gary Williamson, professor of 'functional foods' at Leeds University, and [...]

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Automatic Monitor Brightness Control

Why isn't there a software that controls your monitor's brightness level automatically. E.g. if you have a webcam, you could use it to detect the current amount of light in the room. If you don't have a webcam, you could use the current ti [...]

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Eric Robison on concept ships

I'm meeting so many amazing artists (at least through email) with this conceptships blog that it's making me think that this was a good idea:} Check out Eric Robison's artwork.Keywords: renowned disney artist painter and [...]

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Stem Cells Used to Make Breasts

IFATS Series: FGF-2-induced HGF Secretion By Adipose-Derived Stromal Cells Inhibits Post-Injury Fibrogenesis Through A JNK-Dependent Mechanism -- Suga et al., 10.1634/stemcells.2008-0261 -- Stem CellsDr Kotaro Yoshimura [...]

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Canon Printer Problem "pstocanonij write error,32" Solved

I just had the error message"pstocanonij write error,32."when trying to print something with the Original Canon Printer Driver and my MP610. It turned out I needed to cancel the job. I printed a test page and then I printed the same thing again and it [...]

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Jabba's palace on concept ships

Here is a little break from all of the tech ship art with a little scene of Jabba's palace from Return of the Jedi.Keywords: giant toad frog outside of jabba's palace on tatooine animated flash loop matte paint from star [...]

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Mixed Static and Shared Library Linking with GCC

If you want to link some libraries statically and other dynamically you can use these switches:-Wl,-Bstatic -lsomelibstatically -Wl,-Bdynamic -lotherlibsharedIf you just want to compile it all statically, use LDFLAGS="-stati [...]

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Dillo 2.0 for AMD64

I've compiled Dillo 2.0 for Ubuntu amd64 (or "intel64") and packed with upx. It should work with other amd64 distributions as well. It does not need fltk 2.0, it's statically linked. Ssl support is missing. It didn't find my ssl library. The required [...]

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Dillo Browser 2.0 Out Now!

Well, if browsers were only about pure speed and size, I guess dillo would always win. It's probably the most minimalist browser for X. And it's blazingly fast. It Opens extremely fast, it loads webpages in amazing speed. And now version 2.0 is out. [...]

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Javascript innovations - How will Opera react?

Until now it seemed Opera was the most innovative Browser out there: Tabs, Browser Sync, "Magic" Input bar, ... Opera had it first, or did it better.Now Firefox came with their JIT Javascript engine and Chrome added a multi-threaded approach to that [...]

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SketchUp concept ship 3D model by Eric Brown

Keywords: a4 a9 duneskimmer google sketchup technical illustration concept vehicle spaceship model rendered drafted by eric br [...]

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Speed concept ship sketches from Paul Chadeisson

PaoYunSoo's art blog.Keywords: speed paints sketches spaceship vehicle art concept art characters on paoyunsoo blog art by paul chadeisson aka [...]

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