Linux by Knight Post 028 This Dumb Year: The 52 Lamest Moments in Tech 2011

If you like botched products, corporate mishaps, and just plain weirdness, you had a fabulous 2011.

Link:  http://technologizer.com/2011/12/30/this-dumb-year-the-52-lamest-tech-moments-of-2011/

TinyURL:  http://tinyurl.com/7okhyyz

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Linux by Knight Post 027 BendDesk: Multi-Touch on a Curved Display

WOW !!!

Link:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=5VNTPwVvLzE

 
TinyURL:  http://tinyurl.com/2wwz5xz


Mrs. Wingman wants a computer desk for her browsing and 
I want a Windows Surface-Like Table Top.

This Looks Like the Best of Both Worlds Eh?

Wingman.

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Not a Bad Start.....But it's just a starting point.

Still, not bad.


Wingman.

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LBK Post 026 Things To Tweak After Installing Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot

From:  http://www.webupd8.org

Back when Ubuntu 11.04 was released, we wrote a post about stuff you may need to tweak or fix. Some of those tweaks still work but since this is a new version, there are new things that need tweaking so I've decided to make a new post with some popular old tweaks as well as some new ones.

Link:  http://www.webupd8.org/2011/10/things-to-tweak-after-installing-ubuntu.html

TinyURL:  http://tinyurl.com/3o3f334

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LBK Post 025 OnLive intros apps for iOS and Android

OnLive Intros Apps for iOS and Android, Refreshes its Wireless Controller

From:  http://www.engadget.com

Link:  http://www.engadget.com/2011/12/07/onlive-intros-apps-for-ios-and-android-refreshes-its-wireless-c/

TinyURL:  http://tinyurl.com/859c239

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LBK Post 024 Top 10 Photoshop Tricks You Can Use Without Buying Photoshop

From:  http://lifehacker.com

You can do just about anything to an image with Photoshop, but if you don't have the cash to shell out, free program the GIMP—available for Windows, Linux, and OS X—

can take you pretty far. Here are our favorite Photoshop how-tos that also work in the GIMP. 

Link:  http://lifehacker.com/5864755/top-10-photoshop-tricks-you-can-do-without-buying-photoshop

TinyURL:  http://tinyurl.com/7j7yd2v

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LBK Post 023 Chrome Usage within striking Distance of Firefox

Link:  http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-57334418-264/chrome-usage-within-striking-distance-of-firefox/?part=pulse&subj=latest-news&tag=title&utm_source=pulsenews&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+cnet%2FWSAE+%28CNET+News+-+Pulse%29

Crap City's 232 Stinking Characters 

to a single Link !!!!!!!

TinyURL:  http://tinyurl.com/77564lu

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LBK Post 022 Just 3- LINUX Stories from LBK NEWS BLOG

For those Too Busy Stuffing their Turkey,  

RC3 was Released Last Week.

Linux 3.2-rc3 is out.

Release notes on lkml, patches and tar-balls on kernel.org. 

And git trees on kernel.org and github as usual.

Nothing earth-shaking, but lots of small stuff. drm, usb, networking. 

Sparc and x86 updates. And btrfs. 

Go get it, and test it. 

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Linux 3.2 rc3 is Released

Link:  http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2011-11-28-001-41-NW-KN-SM

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Install Memcached And PHP5-MemCached Module On 

Debian 6.0 (Squeeze)

Link:  http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2011-11-28-007-39-OS-DB-SV

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Ubuntu and Android Users Should Jump On New Firefox Updates

Link:  http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2011-11-28-006-39-OS-SW-RL

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LBK Post 021 Two Keep You Up To Date Linux Stories

Top 6 Linux and BSD 

Graphical Installation Programs

New users tend to flock to distributions with easy to use installation programs, that is, to distributions with graphical installers. Some people will probably disagree with that statement, but most users feel more at home with a point-and-click interface, than with a terminal (console) program.

Anaconda for Fedora, Di the Debian Installer, Drakx for Mandriva, SysInstaller, or PC-SysInstaller, is the installation program of PC-BSD and Ubiquity the Ubuntu’s 

installation program.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Link:  http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2011/11/19/top-6-linux-and-bsd-graphical-installation-programs/

TinyURL:  http://tinyurl.com/7uf33pd

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Why Linux Isn’t Only for Geeks

 

 

Link:  http://linux-news.org/index.php/2011/11/19/why-linux-isnt-only-for-geeks/

TinyURL:  http://tinyurl.com/7b3b5de

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LBK Post 020 Apple Open Sources its ALAC Lossless Audio Codec

Apple Open Sources its ALAC Lossless Audio Codec

Link:  http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Apple-open-sources-its-ALAC-lossless-audio-codec-1368212.html

 

 

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jQuery and Ajax Error Detection and Handling

 

 

Link:  http://olex.openlogic.com/wazi/2011/jquery-and-ajax-error-detection-and-handling/ 

 

 

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Linux Foundation Proposes to 

 

use UEFI to Make 

 

PCs Secure and Free

 

 

Link:  http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/linux-foundation-proposes-to-use-uefi-to-make-pcs-secure-and-free/9827

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The Kernel Panel at LinuxCon Europe

Linux users got a rare opportunity to hear directly from the hackers at the core of the Linux kernel on Wednesday at LinuxCon Europe. Read on for more on the state of ARM in the Linux kernel, the need for new kernel contributors, and the death of the Big Kernel Lock (BKL).

 

 

Link:  https://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/499287-the-kernel-panel-at-linuxcon-europe

 

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LBK Post 029 Distribution Release Puppy Linux 5_3 Slacko

DISTRO WATCH: Puppy Linux 5.3 

SLACKO

Link:  http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=06952
 

TinyURL:  http://tinyurl.com/3v6nl8j

 

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LBK Post 028 Xrandr: Solve Screen Resolution Issues via Command Line in Ubuntu / Debian

Link:  http://reviewhubs.com/linuxtips/2011/10/xrandr-solve-screen-resolution-issues-via-command-line-in-ubuntu-debian.html

TinyURL:  http://tinyurl.com/3r8t4go

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Xrandr (X Rezise and Rotare) is a command line utility available in your Linux system for reseting and resizing your screen resolution. So, if there is any issues with your display, no problem you can fix it from a Terminal.

First You have to find the possible resolutions with xrandr -q

    $ xrandr -q
    Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1280 x 800, maximum 8192 x 8192

    LVDS1 connected 1280x800+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 331mm x 207mm
       1280x800       60.0*+
       1024x768       60.0
       800x600        60.3     56.2
       640x480        59.9
    VGA1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
    HDMI1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
    DP1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
    DP2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)

Now you can set your resolution with command

    $ xrandr -s 1024×768

More Details

    $ man xrandr

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Linux 3.1 Released with NFC Support

The Linux 3.1 kernel has been released several weeks late, providing enhancements to performance, virtualization, and power management. Linux 3.1 also includes support for near field communication (NFC), the OpenRISC open source CPU, Nintendo's Wii controller, and 3D acceleration with Nvidia GEForce graphics processor units (GPUs).

The new kernel arrives more than three months after Linux 3.0, after having been delayed several weeks by a late-August malware attack on kernel.org. The release offers a grab-bag of goodies from new performance and virtualization enhancements to support for new devices including NFC-enabled smartphones.

Link:  http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS5419553720.html?kc=rss

TinyURL:  http://tinyurl.com/3sny52h

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Final Ubuntu 11.10 Spiffs Up Unity, 
Adds ARM Server Support

Link:  http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/Ubuntu-1110-final-release/

TinyURL:  http://tinyurl.com/3zfw56w

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LBK Post 027 Grab Your Own Images from NOAA Weather Satellites

From:  http://hackaday.com

Link:  http://hackaday.com/2011/10/20/grab-your-own-images-from-noaa-weather-satellites/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+hackaday%2FLgoM+%28Hack+a+Day%29

Ugh!!! 173 Characters for that Link.

TinyURL:  http://tinyurl.com/3jukjxk

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Receiving Weather Satellite Images with Softrock
Link:  http://alternet.us.com/?p=1398

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WB5RVZ Software Defined Radio Homepage

Link:  http://www.wb5rvz.com/sdr/

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LBK Post 026 Linux Just Got Better With The Fedora 16 Beta Distribution

From:  http://www.makeuseof.com

Linux distributions have been improving by leaps and bounds, and those improvements are becoming visible in the latest beta releases. Fedora, one of the flagship distributions carrying GNOME 3, is no different and should have plenty of new features to make your mouth water.

GRUB 2

"The first new feature you may (or may not) notice is that Fedora finally uses GRUB 2 as the bootloader. While one might think that GRUB 2 was already in widespread use before this change, you perhaps don’t realize that GRUB 2, for the most part, was only implemented in any Debian-based distributions. Go outside of the Debian world and it’s a whole different story.

A Newer Kernel

From 2.6.38 to 3.0/"2.6.40"  Fedora 16.
2 Snapshots

 

Link:  http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/linux-fedora-16-beta-distribution/

 

 

TinyURL:  http://tinyurl.com/63u73rb

 

 

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LBK Post 025 How to install Android apk files in Windows using BlueStacks Apk Handle

Continuation on Windows Desktop 

and Android Apps

Android Apps in Windows using BlueStacks

How-To Add APK Files Using BlueStacks 

APK Handler

Link:  http://eins.my/how-to-install-android-apk-files-in-windows-using-bluestacks-apk-handler/

TinyURL:  http://tinyurl.com/3d3gwd7

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 BlueStacks

Publisher's description
From Bluestacks:

BlueStacks runs Android OS and apps on Windows PCs with instant switch between Android and Windows - no reboot is required. End consumers can now enjoy their favorite Android apps on Windows PCs. Android apps can appear either as icons on the Windows desktop, or within a full-blown Android environment.

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BlueStacks (Download)
http://download.cnet.com/bluestacks/3000-18513_4-75593133.html

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LBK Post Ubuntu Linux Heads to the Clouds

OpenStack, Juju, Canonical and HP. That's quite an Ensemble Isn't It.

Summary: As Ubuntu 11.10’s release date approaches, it becomes ever clearer that Canonical plans on taking this popular Linux distribution to the cloud.

Last week, Ubuntu Linux’s parent company Canonical CEO Jane Silber announced at the OpenStack cloud software conference that HP has chosen Ubuntu as the lead host and guest operating system for its Public Cloud. That’s impressive. It’s Canonical’s biggest enterprise win to date, but that’s only a hint of what Canonical is up to with the cloud.

Link:  http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/ubuntu-linux-heads-to-the-clouds/9722
 

TinyURL:  http://tinyurl.com/6eot437

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Memories About Tortilla Chips and Black 78's

Back in the day, my great-aunt Rosa S. used to Bake 78 records

She baked them for Art's Sake.  She would put them in an oven, balanced on a bowl I guess, and turned up the heat. 

A little bit later the round black disc would curl up and sink to the bottom of the bowl  leaving a black flower like shape.

This she would paint and decorate with glitter and such and make gift-giving decorations

That was many many years ago.

I haven't tought about that in years until I saw a new "Bag of Chips" my son brought home from his last shopping day.

Looking at the New Shaped Dipping Chip I said to myself: 

"I've seen this before...." 

And with that, the great-aunt story about Rosa came to the surface.

Memories can taste pretty good.

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The Tortilla_Chip on Wikipedia.

Link:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortilla_chip

The 78RPM Record Page

Link:  http://78rpmrecord.com/ 

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