Being that I’m running Mepis 6.0.4 Beta on an old PIII 700mhz laptop and I have zero patience (just as Baldy how much I like to wait ) I use Fluxbox as my window manager as opposed to KDE or GNOME
Getting Fluxbox 0.9.14 set up was no problem at all, but I was annoyed [...]
Much easier than opening a terminal and typing the fbsetbg command along with the path to the file!
Open up your ~/.fluxbox/menu with your editor of choice and copy and paste the following anywhere you’d like
[submenu] (Backgrounds)
[wallpapers] (~/.fluxbox/backgrounds) {fbsetbg}
[end]
Remember to save the file and make sure you have a backgrouds directory in your ~/.fluxbox directory!!
Now when [...]
Mepis 6.0.4 Beta / Opera 9.10
After over half an hour of searching, Baldy and I finally found the deeply hidden, highly secretive and super elusive java.
Here’s how to get it working:
Open up Opera>Tools>Prefrences>Advanced>Content> check the box beside “Enable Java”. Open up Java Options: Browse to /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.08/jre/lib/i386 Validate your Java Path. You should be good to [...]
It may not have Fernando Alonso behind the wheel, but the latest version of the Lamborghini laptop looks like it has the pure muscle to snap most benchmarks in two and still have time to grab a beer and pizza. Based on the Core 2 Duo platform, it boasts a high-end video card as well [...]
(Column) - Theory versus practice - I don’t think there’s a better solution in making sure that software developers are ready for the challenges of tomorrow than catching them while they are still in school, and then plugging them into an open source software project.
Combining What You Love and Getting Paid. It seems that [...]
I am a prisoner of Canada, and it’s my own damn fault.
I knew my passport was expiring by the end of October. Even when I took my last trip across the border, a few weeks before the deadline, a customs officer said to me, “Well, you won’t be traveling with this much longer.” To top [...]
Sun Microsystems, Secunia, the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team and other security agencies have issued alerts for a somewhat oxymoronic telnet vulnerability in the Sun Solaris 10 operating system. The vulnerability is oxymoronic because, while it’s possible for a hacker to gain potentially devastating access to a system, the administrators in charge of [...]
{mosimage}A new study in the Journal of Political Economy by Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf has found that illegal music downloads have had no noticeable effects on the sale of music, contrary to the claims of the recording industry.
Entitled “The Effect of File Sharing on Record Sales: An Empirical Analysis,” the study matched an extensive [...]
{mosimage} Picking a password is a tricky business. And the temptation is to go for something that is easy to remember like our partner’s birthday, a pet’s name, or a film star.
The trouble is, given just a few attempts it also makes it pretty easy to crack.
“Hackers today will often use a dictionary style [...]
The machine designed by Drs. Eckert and Mauchly was a monstrosity. When it was finished, the ENIAC filled an entire room, weighed thirty tons, and consumed two hundred kilowatts of power. And it wasn’t as powerful as your cellphone.
For those of you that are wondering yes that is the name of the First Computer [...]
