So, I just finished going through Swaroop's wonderful guide. The last chapter presents the student with a basic problem to create a program. I just finished it (during a rather boring class) and I figured I would upload it.
Get it here
Sorry but the upload site I found is really shitty. If anyone can point me to a better free hosting site I would be eternally grateful.
Thursday, March 1, 2007
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Feisty Fawn
So I just upgraded to Feisty Fawn herd 4 on my laptop. There are a lot of small changes. Most people seem to be concentrating on the new layout of the control panel. I haven't messed with it much yet, but it looks clean and easy to use. KDE has a pretty similar kind of set up and as has been pointed out it definitely bears are resemblance to Windows XP.
While this change is monumental, I'd like to concentrate on a few other things. Firstly, I've noticed that 7.04 is booting a lot faster than 6.10 was. This is great for me because I use my laptop to take notes in class and I tend to arrive in class with little time to spare.
The wireless network manager has been seriously beefed up. Previously it was a real pain to deal with and I ended up using Wifi radar to deal with different wireless networks. The new manager is a lot smarter. For one thing it will automatically switch between eth0 and eth1.
Lastly, there is a new program called Tomboy. This program is really neat and it is something I have been wanting for a little while now. It is a note taking program that allows you to search your notes, create links and do all sorts of other neat little things.
As you can see I'm using it to stay organized for my school research. It is easy to use, and provides a great deal of organizational power to the user. It isn't the prettiest program in the world, but I don't need eye candy in my note cards
While this change is monumental, I'd like to concentrate on a few other things. Firstly, I've noticed that 7.04 is booting a lot faster than 6.10 was. This is great for me because I use my laptop to take notes in class and I tend to arrive in class with little time to spare.
The wireless network manager has been seriously beefed up. Previously it was a real pain to deal with and I ended up using Wifi radar to deal with different wireless networks. The new manager is a lot smarter. For one thing it will automatically switch between eth0 and eth1.
Lastly, there is a new program called Tomboy. This program is really neat and it is something I have been wanting for a little while now. It is a note taking program that allows you to search your notes, create links and do all sorts of other neat little things.
As you can see I'm using it to stay organized for my school research. It is easy to use, and provides a great deal of organizational power to the user. It isn't the prettiest program in the world, but I don't need eye candy in my note cards
Ubuntu on tap
This has got to be one of the most interesting ideas. It is remarkably simple, and really wouldn't be half as cool if it weren't for the little hand drawn sign.
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Google Search Commands
Google is the number one search engine, but at the same time how much do we really understand it? There are a lot of tricks that you can make google do which will greatly increase your efficiency. If you want to search for web pages by their title you can simple use intitle:search_terms or allintitle:search_term. These commands are incredibly useful whenever you're trying to find a web page but can't remember the entire title. If you can only remember part of the url you can use inurl:search_terms or allinurl:search_terms.
While these are very useful in specific situations I don't tend to run into those situations all that much. On the other hand the site: command has proven time and again to be an immense time saver for me. Whenever dealing with pages that have a lot of content to sift through the best way to get to what you are looking for is typically to just use google and the site:command. You just type in the URL and then whatever you're searching for. Typically this gets you where you want to be faster than the built in search engine on most pages.
While these are very useful in specific situations I don't tend to run into those situations all that much. On the other hand the site: command has proven time and again to be an immense time saver for me. Whenever dealing with pages that have a lot of content to sift through the best way to get to what you are looking for is typically to just use google and the site:command. You just type in the URL and then whatever you're searching for. Typically this gets you where you want to be faster than the built in search engine on most pages.
MS fonts in Ubuntu
The MS font collection is a really useful package to have on your computer. I know that there are open source fonts that look similar to times new roman but it just isn't the same. In order to get the MS fonts (most importantly Times New Roman and Curier New) you can follow this simple process.
Make sure you have the universe and metaverse libraries enabled in /etc/apt/sources.list (if you do not know how to add additional repositories there is a very good explaination here.
This procedure is really quick and ridiculously pain free (or at least it has been for me both times I've done it.)
Open up a command prompt and type: apt-get install msttcorefonts
This is will download all of the fonts for you it might take a minute or two depending on your internet connection speed. At the end it should say all fonts successfully installed.
Now we just type: fc-cache
Openoffice should now have the MS fonts available as options now. Enjoy
Make sure you have the universe and metaverse libraries enabled in /etc/apt/sources.list (if you do not know how to add additional repositories there is a very good explaination here.
This procedure is really quick and ridiculously pain free (or at least it has been for me both times I've done it.)
Open up a command prompt and type: apt-get install msttcorefonts
This is will download all of the fonts for you it might take a minute or two depending on your internet connection speed. At the end it should say all fonts successfully installed.
Now we just type: fc-cache
Openoffice should now have the MS fonts available as options now. Enjoy
Sunday, February 18, 2007
Wallpaper Saturdays
I've just decided that from now on every Saturday I will produce a new wallpaper. If anyone has any requests for particular subject matter or resolutions please let me know. I'd be all too happy to make you a wallpaper.
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