May
27
2005
Map the Windows key on your keyboard in KDE?
Here’s a quick tip to make working in KDE just a little bit more like working in Windows. (This is important if you’re trying to convert Windows users to Linux.)
1. K menu > Control Center. 2. Regional & Accessibility > Keyboard Layout > Xkb Options 3. [...]
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May
23
2005
It’s a spaceship!
Really, it is! It’s a picture of Mars Odyssey taken by Mars Orbiter. Both spaceships are from Earth, of course, but that doesn’t lessen the fact that they are spaceships!
Everyone and their brother has posted links to this picture, but there’s a good reason: it is friggin’ cool. To quote the article, this is “the [...]
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May
23
2005
Revenge Of the Sith: Darth Vader – Whiny Little Bitch?
I actually got out to the theater this weekend to see Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge Of the Sith. So much for not getting excited about the movie! At least I didn’t take the day off from work this time around.
Anyway, I went in with very low expectations. And that might have helped out a [...]
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May
19
2005
Asus A7V8X-X, Windows XP and USB 2.0
I built my current, basing it on an Asus A7V8X-X systemboard and AMD Athlon XP 2500+. For the most part, I’ve been very pleased with it. The only problem that I’ve run into is under Windows XP: The USB ports are detected as USB 1.1 ports, instead of USB 2.0.
This has been annoying me for [...]
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May
18
2005
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess videos
Gamespot has some new videos from the upcoming The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. Scroll down to the “Gameplay video” section. The game looks amazing, but watching the video, it doesn’t look like gameplay has changed much from . On one hand, that’s a good thing. But on the other hand, couldn’t at least some [...]
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May
18
2005
Indy Custom Radio for Linux
Indy Custom Radio is now available for Linux! Well, sorta.The Indy team actually released a pure Java version of Indy, which will run on any OS which supports Java 1.4+. Linux is one of those OS’s, so Indy now works in Linux.
Of course, this is all semantics. The important thing is that this experiment in [...]
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May
17
2005
Free Doctor Who eBooks!
This is the absolute coolest of all cool things: the BBC has a number of Doctor Who eBooks available for free! You have to read them online, but that’s more than worth it for these wonderful Doctor Who stories.
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