Technology & Life Integration: Fiction or FutureA peek into the mind of Locutus as he explores the realms of possibilities that computers and related technology bring. What will technology do for us and is it good or bad?I want to break free!- September 17, 2008 If you are old enough you will probably recall the song by Queen of the same name. It is probably one of their better songs and Freddy Mercury really put a lot of emotion into it. Perhaps he really felt that he needed to be released from something and pursue his true nature. Maybe that song should be the theme song of the latest addition to the repositories of the Debian family. This program is called Freeme2 and is based off of Freeme. You can visit the programs original site a href="http:http://networking.ittoolbox.com/r/rss.asp?url=http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/locutus/i-want-t... I don't care what OS my device uses.- September 16, 2008 There seems to be too much emphasis on which device uses which operating system at the moment. In as little as a couple of years ago no-one really knew or even cared what operating system devices used. By devices I am meaning those of the mobile variety. There really wasn't much competition as it was a niche market and there were no choices available. Then microsoft decided to take a slice of the pie which is fine. It is all part of business and is to be expected that a successful companyhttp://networking.ittoolbox.com/r/rss.asp?url=http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/locutus/i-dont-c... The Electron Road Part 37- September 12, 2008 While Spinner is away, Lorry goes hunting.http://networking.ittoolbox.com/r/rss.asp?url=http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/locutus/the-elec... The end of physical reboots with Linux.- September 11, 2008 I was having an interesting conversation with my BSD buddies on whether Ubuntu is suitablenot for servers and I did my usual bragging about the servers not needing to be rebooted. I was then asked about kernel updates and a wish was expressed for an ability to update kernels without having to reboot the server. This started tickling a few memory cells which hadn't yet been wiped out by various substhttp://networking.ittoolbox.com/r/rss.asp?url=http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/locutus/the-end-... The worlds largest particle beam generator uses Linux.- September 10, 2008 And I am surprised at that. I would have thought that the Large Hadron Collider which generated its first successful particle beam today would have used at the very least Unix. No, they have gone and used my very own favorite operating system Linux. Why would I think that it uses Linux Several factors come into play. First of all, when I was reading the news about it and I looked at the photo slide show given by Yahoo news, the computer screen shots looked decidedly nixie. You can see for yhttp://networking.ittoolbox.com/r/rss.asp?url=http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/locutus/the-worl... Quit tailing me!- September 9, 2008 Old Mother Twitchett had but one eye, And a long tail which she let fly; And every time she went through a gap, A bit of her tail she left in a trap. "Tail" is a very useful command for reading the last few lines of any file. Generally it is used for displaying log files. There is also a companion command called "head" which shows the first few lines but I will not get ahead of myself here and will just concentrate on "tail". With tail you can display the last specified number of lines,http://networking.ittoolbox.com/r/rss.asp?url=http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/locutus/quit-tai... Lancelot is my new knight in shiny menu.- September 8, 2008 In the days of old when graphics were bold and menu's were point and clicky. Lancelot came and it was a big gain because menu's are now just sticky. Sorry KDE3 peoples but this big fella is just for KDE4. It is a new replacement for the standard K menu and I find it to be a lot easier to navigate and has more features. You can find out more information on the Lancelot home page here including a nice picture of it. While pictures tell a thohttp://networking.ittoolbox.com/r/rss.asp?url=http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/locutus/lancelot... Building Chrome with Debian (or getting out the polishing cloth at least).- September 5, 2008 Yes, I know, Yet Another Chrome Article (YACA), but I had to give it a try and see how it would go building under Linux. It's only a browser I thought so it shouldn't take too long to dip my toes in the water and I haven't compiled anything for a long time. There is something relaxing about watching characters scrolling by the screen in a reverse Matrix kind of way so I did a search (google of course) and found thehttp://networking.ittoolbox.com/r/rss.asp?url=http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/locutus/building... Easily recover from a tarbomb with xargs.- September 4, 2008 It has happened to many of us at one time or an other. You wish to try out some super duper program that is not in your package manager yet or a friend has sent you a tar file of some juicy pictures or music files. Maybe you just wish to recover a file from a backup you made. You do make backups don't you No matter where you found your tarball you have it on your desktop or in your home directory and it has a little sign on it saying "untar me" (OK not a physical sign, just a psychological ohttp://networking.ittoolbox.com/r/rss.asp?url=http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/locutus/easily-r... Yaka...Yake...Ya Quake...Yakuake....What- September 3, 2008 It seems a funny name and just looking at it from a long list of over 20,000 choices does nothing to make it stand out. For all you know Yakuake could be some ancient Inca ritual. Well some ritual did inspire it but definitely not an Inca ritual. This ritual consists of bestial grunts and growls, illuminated by the electronic glow of blood spattered images and exploding body parts and punctuated by the ratta tatta tatta and boom of machine guns and everybody's favourite, the BFG. Yes I am talhttp://networking.ittoolbox.com/r/rss.asp?url=http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/locutus/yakayake... |