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Life Funds for North Korean Refugees, an NGO

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:07:02 -0700

You know nazi death camps, right? You know that such things don't happen anymore? Well, if you do then I have to wonder how have the mainstream media, even though it seems all powerfull in hiding truth, managed to make you believe such.

There are worse things happening around the world all the time and here is a story from a work camp in North Korea. Sometimes these things make me feel that it's almost wrong to be a pacifist.

HackNBlog & Blog Archive & "htop": Ultimate Linux process viewer

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:54:14 -0700

On my *nix blog, HackNBlog I wrote this article about a Linux process viewer application. Here is some highlights of the text:

Many people using linux prefer to use console based process viewer instead graphical ones like gnome system monitor. Usually they thus end up using the most known interactive process viewer, "top". "top" however is old and by todays standards not as clear and good to use (the UI is sooo 90's) but most people don't know of anything better.

There is however a great alternative, "htop", which resembles quite a lot the old "top" but is much more clearer and has much better and easier usability, functionality and look. A screenshot is provided below, but check my HackNBlog article on this application.

HackNBlog & Blog Archive & My first poll: "Year of Linux Desktop?"

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 05:12:10 -0700

On my blog there is a poll on the subject: Has there been a year of Linux yet (this [2009] counting)? - with 6 choises ranging from "Yes, most definately and everyone should see it!" to "Not for me, not for anyone else. That would be ridiculous!"

Please participate and give your vote!

HackNBlog & Blog Archive & Watching TV on Linux - the easy road

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 02:32:02 -0700

From the page: "You have a DVB card (Digital Video Broadcasting, for digital TV that is)? You want to use your computer as a telly for watching and recording? Yet MythTV is a bit of a too much bloat, too hard to set up, sumtin like that?"

I wrote blogged on HackNBlog about an easy program called Me-TV for utilizing your DVB card (digi-TV) to watch and record programs on your home computer running Linux.

http://imagechan.com/images/44b0f2526f20375d57fa9804be5fcbf7.gif

Mon, 11 May 2009 22:14:48 -0700

HackNBlog & Blog Archive & Convert image to 3D with GIMP

Sat, 25 Apr 2009 15:00:23 -0700

From the page: "From blog of Locutus I found an entry "3D Chuck. The Gimp script way.". I have never even thought of this idea - the guide describes how to turn regular image into 3d-image for viewing with red and green or blue and yellow 3d-glasses."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba14uJFvqMs

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 07:35:17 -0700

Really funny song I found from my friend Katja's stumble bloggings :) Catchy! Makes no sense whatsoever so I love it!

Technology &Business | Servers | Quiz | The Origins of Linux Quiz

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 02:31:17 -0700

From the page: "The Origins of Linux Quiz

Linux has been around for over two decades now. But how well do you know the origins of this open source operating system?

Why not take our quiz and test whether you really are a true Linux expert. After you complete the quiz well let you know how you went and give you the correct answers."

http://salamanteri.homelinux.net/wordpress/2009/04/firefox-3-beats-internet-explorer-6/

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:15:18 -0700

From the page: "One great milestone for Mozilla FireFox 3 browser and in the battle against the more pathetic dinosaur of the browser world, Internet Explorer, was achieved early this year when FireFox 3 beated Internet Explorer 6 on most used web browsers statistics (at least according to StatCounters statistics)."

Read more from my blog site, HackNBlog...

HackNBlog & Blog Archive & Getting XMMS back to Debian/Ubuntu

Sun, 15 Mar 2009 07:17:57 -0700

Problem: How to install XMMS for Linux distro that dropped supporting it? Read on...

Several Linux distributions have been dropping support for old XMMS audio player for various reasons.
My desktop computer is running one of those distributions (Debian) that just rolled from previous stable, Etch, to new Debian 5 (or Lenny) and I was shocked when I noticed that my favorite audio player had been automatically removed! :o

Anyway, after thinking about switching audio player software for a while and checking feature lists and screenshots of some I came to conclusion that while there are lot's of very advanced players available the fact remained that XMMS still has it's merits and for my peculiar needs it was the best one available (yeah, I know about Audacity, it's not the same).

So check this blog entry of mine to find how you can install XMMS on Debian and Ubuntu systems - and no compiling from source required :)