It's safe to update Hardy Heron now!

I read a blog about not updating Hardy and it scared me, but no problems here. I have updated 4 times in 2 days without hosing my system. I think the problem was caught early. On 03/12/08 I had 296 updates, then 03/13/08 I had 20, 18 because 2 didn't get the update. I suspect the 2 that were left out were the offenders. After reboot it had me do another 36 updates with no problems. This just goes to show How quick UBUNTU gets updates and action if there is a problem found with an update. If this had been a microsuck windows update that broke the system it would have been months before the next update to fix the break.
I love UBUNTU and GNU/LINUX.

Change resolution in Linux Mint

I've been comparing simple tasks in different distros, this week the distro is Linux Mint. It is super easy to do things in Linux Mint. To do a simple screen resolution change in Linux Mint click the menu (Daryna bottom left) then in the second frame of the menu under all applications click preferences then screen resolution.

Changing screen resolution in UBUNTU.

Since I had a question about screen resolution from a friend that I set up with puppy linux. I thought I'd show a screen of the same change in UBUNTU 7.10

Free Ubuntu Training pdf

Anyone can download the free Ubuntu Training guides, there's a student version and a instructor version. I have read the first 33 of 398 pages and skimmed the rest, it looks like a real good ebook for any one who wants to learn about Ubuntu Linux. In true Open Source spirit this is free, it's like getting a college course for free. You will also learn about Gnome, Open Office, Open Office, Open Source and much more. I'm sure you could pass the Ubuntu Linux desktop certification (if you have your LPIC) after reading this.

Palo Duro Canyon bday trip

I just got back from Palo Duro Canyon and the Cadillac Ranch. Posting some pictures, and handing out some Linux Mint 4.0 Daryna cd's. What a fun BDay trip! Ginger really loves it now that I ha
ve my Dell Ubuntu laptop(1420n) and I it helps me preach Open Source GNU/LINUX even more:>) LOL

BDAY 08 PALO DURO CANYON

Got Game? Linux now has major Game!

Ubuntu Ultimate Edition Gamers 1.6 is hot off the wire. The first impression is AWESOME the 1.6 version of UUEG has many new features and games. As soon as you boot from this BIG GAMER DVD you it automatically has your network figured out and asks if you'd like to download all the closed source extras. This thing is also AWESOME in size, almost 4gigs, so if you have an older system your going to wait for the download, burn, and boot. It took me 10hrs to download from the torrent, it was a wait well worth it!
Get the torrent at LinuxTracker.

Linux preloaded on $299 laptops.

I was very excited about the $150 PClinuxOS computer but now the $299 laptop Eee PC has my attention and I just had to blog about it. I have been reading about it for a couple of months now but it wasn't until I tested it at the local pc club that I decided to tout it. I haven't bought one because I'm perfectly happy with my 1420n Laptop that Dell preloaded with Ubuntu 7.04 and I've since upgraded to Ubuntu 7.10. Next Christmas that will be on my list as a second laptop, and probably at $249 by then.

$150 pc deal with lcd monitor and PCLINUXOS.

Tonight I was reading distrowatch weekly and found some cool new ways to make old computers come to life again. PCLINUXOS is a has been rated #1 on distrowatch for a while now and it will run on a system that would barely run xp and can't touch it with vista. The $150 IBM that comes with a lcd monitor and PClinuxOS seems like a good deal. It would be for just a second computer to surf the net and play a few hundred 2d linux games. What do you think?

BOINC not such a good idea.

Just over a week ago I decided to join the WORLD COMMUNITY GRID using BOINC. This was not a good idea as it started freezing Ginger's computer (core 2 quad q6600) and mine was constantly throttling the cpu fan. If any one has joined because of my first post make sure you limit the cpu time to 50% and if BOINC uses default on startup then you should remove it.

Simple change of resolution in Puppy Linux 3.01

If you're booted into Puppy Linux and you want to change the resolution (make the screen and icons smaller/bigger) click Menu > Setup > Xvesa Video Wizard. Depending on what your using Xorg or Xvesa you would click the appropriate Wizard. Tara I think you're on Xvesa, you can reboot and select Xvesa 1024x768x16.

I signed Ginger up for BOINC also!

Fri 28 Dec 2007 03:10:36 PM CST||Starting BOINC client version 5.10.8 for i686-pc-linux-gnu
Fri 28 Dec 2007 03:10:36 PM CST||log flags: task, file_xfer, sched_ops
Fri 28 Dec 2007 03:10:36 PM CST||Libraries: libcurl/7.16.4 OpenSSL/0.9.8e zlib/1.2.3.3 libidn/1.0
Fri 28 Dec 2007 03:10:36 PM CST||Data directory: /var/lib/boinc-client
Fri 28 Dec 2007 03:10:36 PM CST||Processor: 4 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz [Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 11]
Fri 28 Dec 2007 03:10:36 PM CST||Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe lm constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm

I just decided to join BOINC!

I was never interested in SETI@home but now that I discovered you can join your own project I decided to join BOINC. Since I'm a GNU/LINUX user it used to be a pain, but now it's in the Ubuntu repository.


Fri 28 Dec 2007 02:17:02 PM CST||Starting BOINC client version 5.10.8 for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
Fri 28 Dec 2007 02:17:02 PM CST||log flags: task, file_xfer, sched_ops
Fri 28 Dec 2007 02:17:02 PM CST||Libraries: libcurl/7.16.4 OpenSSL/0.9.8e zlib/1.2.3.3 libidn/1.0
Fri 28 Dec 2007 02:17:02 PM CST||Data directory: /var/lib/boinc-client
Fri 28 Dec 2007 02:17:02 PM CST||Processor: 2 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 3.00GHz [Family 15 Model 6 Stepping 2]
Fri 28 Dec 2007 02:17:02 PM CST||Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall nx lm constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx cid cx16 xtpr lahf_lm
Fri 28 Dec 2007 02:17:02 PM CST||Memory: 995.30 MB physical, 2.85 GB virtual
Fri 28 Dec 2007 02:17:02 PM CST||Disk: 140.70 GB total, 114.36 GB free
Fri 28 Dec 2007 02:24:23 PM CST|| Number of CPUs: 2
Fri 28 Dec 2007 02:24:23 PM CST|| 1549 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU
Fri 28 Dec 2007 02:24:23 PM CST|| 4472 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU
Fri 28 Dec 2007 02:24:24 PM CST||Resuming computation

Easy image merge with imagemagick.

Using imagemagick now graphicsmagick in ubuntu
This easy line typed in a linux terminal(shown at top right of picture) window:
composite -gravity north mybanner.png justmarriedface.jpg marriedface.png
Composite tells computer to merge image and gravity tells it where merge the 1st image onto the 2nd image and the last image is the final result.

forwarding nudepenguin to blogger

If you are seeing this in a frame it's because I've forwarded nudepenguin.net traffic here until I get my design figured out. I may just keep blogging instead (it's so much easier) no need to code just compose right from your google/gmail/doc account.