Royal HeHe2-ness!

Around 3 month ago OpenOffice.org released its 2.4 boasting quite an impressive arsenal of advancements. However if you thought 2.4 was major release, then you have seen nothing! Come September, OpenOffice.org will release it’s 3.0 version! That must be quite a big jump! The upcoming 3.0 version is widely regarded as an important milestone in [...]

In May’s issue of Linux Journal, their segment “LJ Index” featured some tidbits or trends about which countries are actually Googling “Linux.” It is always interesting where Linux is gaining public interest, which countries are falling behind. (Source: Google Trends)

Russia claimed the top spot
India came in second
Number of Asian countries in the top ten: 3
Number [...]

Steven707 seems to figured out how to run Crysis using Wine. Well almost! The game launches off perfectly, however during gameplay there are some glitches that makes the game almost unplayable. According to Steven, he had to tweak the registry a bit and use a few native Windows dll’s just to get it to start. [...]

Ok I have a confession, actually I really don’t need to make one, because it’s so transparent, but yes this is a linkbait. But I also promise you that each one of these blogs are great, fun and informative, and that I did my research on them. It’s not just a headless list of blogs.
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Ubuntu has established itself as one of the most user friendly and easy Linux distro out there. So much expectation revolves around this release, and finally the wait is over! Let’s have a quick run down on what Hardy brings on the table, and how it weighs against these expectations.

Sebastian Bilbeau authored a script that enables you to Google straight from the comfort of your command line interface! How sweet is that? The script will give you the links of the first 11 result in Google, nothing more nothing less. Meaning don’t expect it to give you titles and description, very rudimentary stuff I [...]

Switching to Linux can be very daunting, most seasoned Linux users experienced that first hand. After all, at some point they were also “noobs”. However, the Linux community has excelled in making the switch for beginners as easy as possible by providing guides, howtos, tweaks, and general advocacy articles. When I first made the switch [...]

Recently a Gizmodo story got a lot of coverage on Digg and other social news site, showing pictures of a Mac running 150 Apps and a teeny weeny dock. Of course the Windows fanbois couldn’t just stay silent and not prove that Mac ain’t got shit against them, so Daniel Smith submitted a video showing [...]

Note: I changed the title of the article from “Etymology of A Linux Distro” to the current because a lot of readers pointed out that it’s not appropriate to have BSD systems, and rightly so, on a Linux list.
Computing is fun! Well at least thats until Microsoft drove it out of the equation. I [...]

Around 2 weeks ago, I blogged about how cool Amarok is and it’s scripts in “Pimp your Amarok: 13 Scripts You Should Know About“. Script 5 is particularly interesting, here take a look:
5-Amarok Blacklist
Who doesn’t have a parody here or a retro gaming techno remix there? But you don’t really want them to start playing [...]