23/05/2014
I’ve been tempted back to XBOX Live Gold by this great June give-a-way. 3 free games Dark Souls Charlie Murder Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition Then as a genius bit of promotion and marketing, the digital upgrade to Ultra Street Fighter IV will be sold for $15 This means loads of scrub Shoryuken n00bs online to beat up with Blanka News: Capcom Drops Full Change List for Ultra Street…
30/04/2014
So it been a slow game month, although I’ve found other distractions! The geek activites that have kept me occupied recently: launch of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr), there are a few cool features installed Kali Linuxon Virtual Box, and have been playing with some of the packaged tools podcasts… think I’m late to the party of this one it took me from the mid 80’s untill the last week…
07/04/2014
After traumatic news yesterday of Ubuntu One closing I’ve been playing and researching alternate options. My favourite to date is owncloud.org, an application you can install on a server, with clients available for Android and Linux… plus the other popular OS’s Key Features Connect to your ownCloud server (HTTP or HTTPS) Browse files and folders in the native Finder or Explorer Automatically sync your latest files and folders across PCs…
06/04/2014
Here’s the Ubuntu One Shutdown notice I received in my inbox earlier 🙁 The service has been discontinued We are sorry to notify you that we will be shutting down the Ubuntu One file services, effective 1 June 2014. It is no longer possible to purchase storage or music from the Ubuntu One store. The Ubuntu One file services apps in the Ubuntu, Google, and Apple stores have been removed.…
27/03/2014
GNOME 3.12 Released with New Features for Users and Developers Orinda, CA– The GNOME Project is proud to release GNOME 3.12 today. The next milestone release in the GNOME 3 series includes many new features, enhancements and updates, as well as new capabilities and APIs for application developers. The new version continues to improve the GNOME 3 user experience and includes many small bug fixes and enhancements. Speaking on behalf…
26/03/2014
After updating to ubuntu 14.04 daily build everything worked as expected, except I couldn’t play video files 🙁 Youtube and flash streamed ok, I installed VLC and ubuntu-restricted-extras, with no luck; each time I tried to open a video file Ubuntu would log out… until I installed xbmc! Issue solved for now, and with a fantastic treat, I get to see Zombieland for the first time! 🙂
07/03/2014
I noticed today that the clock was missing from the Unity funbar, funny I don’t know how long it was gone 😉 Here are the instructions I found from ask Ubuntu to restore it: Reinstall indicator-datetime. It should be installed by default, but just in case you have removed it unknowingly, it is best to run the install command again. sudo apt-get install indicator-datetime Next, we are going to reconfigure…
05/03/2014
I love this time of year leading up to a new Ubuntu release (sad eh?), and the next one is a LTS, so even more exciting 🙂 From my RSS Ubuntu feed this OMG Ubuntu article: 7 Improvements In Ubuntu 14.04 LTS That You’re Going To Love tells of how the Unity Laucher icon size can be reduced even smaller! I didn’t know it could be reduced, and I’ve been…
05/01/2014
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02/01/2014
An online friend mentioned OpenSuse this week, a distro that I have heard of, but not yet played with. So what a great geek treat, to have 2 new OS’s to get the grips of in one week 🙂 I’ve downloaded the 4.7GB iso and installed it via Virtual Box, opting for the KDE ‘Plasma Desktop’ over Gnome 3.1 It’s early days, I’m still updating the software, although already installed…
29/12/2013
Fedora 20 released at the start of this month, so I thought I’d give it a try via Virtual Box, and I liked it. I’m a fan of Gnome, so the GUI was a pleasure to use, although I now know Xfce can be used, and I’ve warmed to it over the last few months. Issues were Virtual Box related and not Fedora, e.g as always getting a wide-screen view,…
23/12/2013
freenect demos located in /user/bin freenect-cppview freenect-glpclview freenect-glview W/S to zoom in/out and C to toggle colour. Click and drag model to rotate
22/12/2013
I’ve found this fantastic video (bonus that the sound track used sounds like Kid Koala), together with the code… but it’s for Windows 🙁 Projects like this sometimes tempt me back to the darkside. Looking on through the list of projects I found another that I would love to give a try: Keyboard Anywhere I started out putting the project together, although disappointingly I ran into a wall trying to…
Since I last updated my Ubuntu ATI graphics driver the mouse pointer in Ubuntu Unity and Gnome has been missing. I could still click on objects, and mouseovers would show, just no pointer! This hasn’t been too bad, as I’ve taken the opportunity to get familiar with XFCE.. but I sometimes missed the shine of Unity and Gnome. Today my GoogleFu paid dividends and I found this solution, thanks to…
20/12/2013
As much as I love the functionality of the xbox 360 kinnect, and there have been some cool games, I don’t use it too often. So I got thinking about what would be an effective use for this sophisticated bit of kit. My first thought was as an alternative cursor controller. And being the 21st century, and having google available at my fingertips, I found that someone had done the…
15/12/2013
After reading this post on Reddit about the unboxing of a Steam Machine, I’m very eager to see how well my own Linux machine will handle the Steam OS. All boxes below ticked, except for the NVIDIA graphics card. I’m hoping that the Steam OS will be the catalyst to get AMD drivers sorted for Linux… we can all dream 😉 I wonder how much the controllers will then cost?…
10/12/2013
linux format usb drive as fat32 go to super mode by typing “su” followed by super mode password fdisk -l that will show all the volume in your pc or you can also use the df to see the usb flash drive suppose it may be /deb/sdb1 umount /dev/sdb1 that un mount the drive mkfs.vfat /dev/sdb1 to format drive into fat32 format AskUbuntu
20/11/2013
Search Firefox by clicking on page and type! #MindBlown
20/11/2013
I’ve been on a quest to find a decent note taking app for my Android phone for some time. I’ve tried several, but for the past few months Google Keep (get it here on Play) as shone through. Feature I like about Google Keep … although not necesarily unique to the app ease it just works, although I’m not a fan of the widget, but then again Power Control is…
18/11/2013
I’ve bee so impressed with Android Kit-Kat on the Nexus 4 today that I’ve decided to upgrade my Nexus 7 to Android 4.4 before the OTA udgrade is available. Here’s a link to all of the factory images for Nexus devices… this is one of the selling points of having a Nexus:) This time I fooowed the below guide, gracious to Talk Android Power off your nakasi Nexus 7, and…