Old-school, but still good … Aprodite – Heat haze
10 Linux Shell Tricks You Don’t Already Know
StandardI had to click on the article title "10 Linux shell tricks you don’t already know. Really, we swear.” and was surprised the good way – there were some valuable new tricks … as well as some already known :) Good to learn anyway.
Track of the week
StandardQ Project – Cry freedom
Track of the week
StandardBlu Mar Ten – Headturner
Helvetica is 50
StandardHelvetica is 50. I like Akzidenz Grotesk a little bit more than Helvetica if I have to use one of these common, boring, uninteresting faces :] My other favorite fonts faces are Renault and Bitstream Vera.
Update!
RedHat has released new set of fonts that are metrically equivalent to the key Microsoft fonts like Arial, Courier New etc. Viva Liberation!
Track of the week
StandardLondon Elektricity – Fast soul music
Apple goes green
StandardWe did it … Steve Jobs announced the plan for toxic chemicals phase out and recycling program! Check out for more at GreenMyApple.
Fastest cities in the world
Standard1) Singapore (Singapore) 2) Copenhagen (Denmark) 3) Madrid (Spain) 4) Guangzhou (China) 5) Dublin (Ireland) 6) Curitiba (Brazil) 7) Berlin (Germany) 8) New York (U.S.) 9) Utrecht (Netherlands) 10) Vienna (Austria) 11) Warsaw (Poland) 12) London (United Kingdom) 13) Zagreb (Croatia) 14) Prague (Czech Republic) 15) Wellington (New Zealand) 16) Paris (France) 17) Stockholm (Sweden) 18) Ljubljana (Slovenia) 19) Tokyo (Japan) 20) Ottawa (Canada) 21) Harare (Zimbabwe) 22) Sofia (Bulgaria) 23) Taipei (Taiwan) 24) Cairo (Egypt) 25) Sana (Yemen) 26) Bucharest (Romania) 27) Dubai (United Arab Emirates) 28) Damascus (Syria) 29) Amman (Jordan) 30) Bern (Switzerland) 31) Manama (Bahrain) 32) Blantyre (Malawi)
Evil track of the week
StandardRascal & Klone – Python woman
My Linux distro
StandardTime to change my home computer Linux distribution has come again. After a year of using Ubuntu my annoyance became too big after I was not able successfully get USB WiFi module and DVB-T USB stick working.
First Ubuntu looked like perfect out-of-the box solution, because I don’t want to waste my time doing the initial “vodoo” with every piece of hardware and software. But later I found there are no packages for the software I want or they are in lots of other repositories which I must manually add to apt. And the hardware was definitely not plug & play :( And yet not mentioned the pain with upgrades.
So I now tried beta version of Fedora 7 and even Ubuntu 7.04, but non of them was able out-of-the box use WiFi with WPA and the TV was broken too. I also tried Arch Linux as it was recommended to be simple and having rolling updates. I was warned it has simple documentation, but this was too simple for me.
So guess where I moved on the following curve at the end …
Yes … welcome again, Gentoo.