Thursday, July 28, 2005
KDE 3.5 Preview
Is Microsoft’s Genuine Advantage program good for Linux?
Is Microsoft's Genuine Advantage program good for Linux? by ZDNet's Joe Brockmeier -- Microsoft is stepping up its Genuine Advantage program, and requiring a "piracy check" for all customers who want to download patches — excepting security updates — for Windows XP. This is a great strategy... for Microsoft's competition. I don't have any figures on the number of "pirated" copies of Windows XP, but [...]
Tuesday, July 26, 2005
WP Plugins for front page
I found these plugins useful and thought you might as well.
Opt-in front page plugin - Restricts the access to your front page on an opt-in basis: Only posts within the category with a slug of ‘blog’ will be displayed on your front page.
Static front page plugin - Sticks the page with a slug of ‘home’ to your front page.
Removing Desktop Icons - Gnome 2.10
Suse 9.3
Applications -> System -> Configuration -> GNOME Configuration Editor
or run (gconf-editor)
/ -> apps -> nautilus -> desktop ->
Remove Computer Icon (Uncheck computer_icon_visible)
Remove Home Icon (Uncheck home_icon_visible)
Remove Trash Can Icon (Uncheck trash_icon_visible)
Remove Icons for Mounted Volumes [Floppy, CDRom, Memory Stick, iPod, etc] (Uncheck volumes_visible)
Thursday, July 14, 2005
Check Media Type Supported in OS X
panther:~ chris$ drutil info
Vendor Product Rev
HP DVD Writer 200j 1.72
Interconnect: FireWire
SupportLevel: None
Cache: 2048k
CD-Write:
DVD-Write:
Strategies:
Vendor Product Rev
PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-104 A227
Interconnect: ATAPI
SupportLevel: Apple Shipping
Cache: 2000k
CD-Write: -R, -RW, BUFE, CDText, Test, IndexPts, ISRC
DVD-Write: -R, -RW, BUFE, Test
Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, DVD-DAO