Free Gaming Live CD/DVD/USB

Traveling aimlessly across the vast oceans of the internet I came across a rather interesting concept. A Live DVD/CD/USB based on Arch Linux for gaming, available here. After looking at the list of games I immediately downloaded the live DVD, much to my surprise everything worked out-of-the-box (sound, network and video drivers (nvidia’s in my [...]

Posted on June 28, 2009 at 7:41 pm by ryuujin · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Your own Linux file server for 150$ or less

Have you always dreamed of having your own Linux file server but were worried about hardware or energy costs? Well with 150$ or less you could build your own portable, energy efficient and powerful Linux file server. All you have to do is buy a Western Digital MyBook World Edition and perform some hacker magic [...]

Posted on June 28, 2009 at 11:08 am by climatewarrior · Permalink · 2 Comments
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Who says the command line can’t be user friendly?

The command line is a great interface for lots of things, it enables a certain level of control, power and speed that sometimes can’t be achieved in graphical interfaces. But the command line can be very intimidating and I have to admit it has a steep learning curve. But does it really have to be [...]

Posted on June 27, 2009 at 8:58 pm by climatewarrior · Permalink · One Comment
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Compare text documents

I found a tool for Windows and Linux called Diffuse that allows you to compare multiple text documents in the same window. I took this summary from their site: Diffuse is a graphical tool for merging and comparing text files. Diffuse is able to compare an arbitrary number of files side-by-side and gives users the [...]

Posted on June 26, 2009 at 12:03 am by ryuujin · Permalink · 2 Comments
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