// I am currently using Ubuntu Hardy Heron on my machine and by default no firewall is set up by Ubuntu. Luckily, it is really simple to set up and manage a firewall on Ubuntu. I have done some research, I’ve found that technically speaking Ubuntu does include a firewall :- you could configure everything [...]
Today’s XKCD comic is so cool.
Alt. Text: This really is a true story, and she doesn’t know I put it in my comic because her wifi hasn’t worked for weeks.
URL: http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/cautionary.png
Fantastic and so true! And he teaches the newbie all the man pages without focusing on the xorg. She’s lucky to have such a cousin. [...]
Once more, I’ve been thinking about that one thing that regularly prevents geeks like us from sleeping peacefully: What is the text editor that I prefer?
I’ve always been a vim guy. I think I started using it on my Amiga or something about 15 years ago. I used it daily when I was studying in [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “What text editor do you use?”, url: “http://www.noulakaz.net/weblog/2008/07/16/what-text-editor-do-you-use/” });
// What is Compiz Fusion ? Compiz Fusion is a mixture of Beryl composite window manager and Compiz Extras. Compiz Fusion aims to provide an easy and fun-to-use windowed environment, allowing use of the graphics hardware to render each individual window and the entire screen, to provide some impressive effects, speed and usefulness.
By activating compiz [...]
I’ve just started teaching a new module today to second year Computer Science students. It’s the Programming Languages module where students are supposed to be exposed to alternative paradigms and programming languages.
Today I had a lab session with one of the group of students and, as lecture hasn’t started yet, I asked them to write [...]
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W007! KDE 4.0 has been released.
Check out the visual guide and tech base for information about the interface, applications, and the libraries.
KDE 4.0 packages are already available for several distributions and will also be included in some upcoming distribution releases. OpenSUSE packages are available through the one-click install service. KDE 4.0 will be included [...]
Wikia Search has been launched.
It is still at alpha development stage and has not indexed most of the web yet, but it’s only a matter of time before this happens.
My First Impression of Wikia = (Social Networking + Search). This concept is brilliant, IMHO.
From http://search.wikia.com/wiki/Search_Wikia
Our Four Organizing Principles (TCQP) - the future of Internet [...]
Someone said that Linux was progressing only through sheer luck… And this make Linus Torvalds react:
And don’t EVER make the mistake that you can design something better than
what you get from ruthless massively parallel trial-and-error with a feedback cycle. That’s giving your intelligence much too much credit.
Linus was referring to the open source development model [...]