Category Archives: linux

ABC Linuxu interview w/icculus

Lots of interesting stuff including Ryan discussing OS/2 at length. This portion is especially compelling: I find if you’re targeting Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X right from the start, your code will probably work anywhere else that you might try it later. Not to long ago, people would say, “why bother? Everyone runs Windows!” [...]

Setting up Xymon/Hobbit with nginx

I just set this up today and it was a pain in the arse, so I figured I’d leave a trace of it somewhere on the internets. I hope this helps you.

Summary of Phoronix/Steam/Linux Situation

thanks to Nemoder for the graphic and Phoronix for ragging on Steam + Linux + UT3 non-stop.

Performance Disparity

Date Thu, 01 Apr 2010 12:30:41 +0100 From Paulo Marques <> Subject Performance disparity, problem found Hi, all I have two machines that show very different performance numbers. After digging a little I found out that the first machine has, in /proc/cpuinfo: model name : Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor 1.00GHz while the other has: model [...]

Slackware 13.0 Available

The amazing Slackware project has released version 13.0. This is the very first version to include x86_64 support, among a variety of other changes and upgrades. You can get slacked from the usual places.

Vimperator

Vimperator is a free browser add-on for Firefox, which makes it look and behave like the Vim text editor. It has similar key bindings and you could call it a modal web browser, as key bindings differ according to which mode you are in. via Vimperator – vimperator labs.

A Comparison of Current VOIP Solutions for Gamers

Computer games have been an important part of my life since as long as I can remember. I’m still young, but I caught the tail end of Kali and saw Mplayer rise and fall, and Gamespy never quite thrilled me like All Seeing Eye. Things have changed a lot over the last decade, but one [...]

An Unfortunate Guide to Upgrading Ubuntu:

Springtime is when a young man’s fancy turns towards upgrading, enclosed within please find a handy guide for dealing with these desires: Boot Ubuntu for first time in two months Hardlock at GDM Look up the wikipedia entry for SysRq Try SysRq combos a few times Wait a minute Give up Reboot via the big [...]