Something Imaginative

Category: Computing

  • Ledgend of Zelda Movie: Not a Myth

    Yes, that’s right folks, They have made, or to be more precise, they are in the process of finishing, the Ledgend Of Zelda Movie. Live action, no less. I’m not quite sure about the Actor, but he’s obviously been chosen for his looks. The plot appears to follow that of the game, and there are…

  • Backing up your data online – For Free!

    How many of us actually backup our data? Hands up… go on? Did you put your hand up? are you lying? IF your one of those thousands of people who know the importance of backup, but find that lazyness actually gets in the way, or that cost seems insane, then here are a few pointers…

  • WiiMote Genius: Someone should pay Johnny Chung Lee

    A demonstration of head-tacking using the WiiMote was show on YouTube. It’s frankly amazing. Vr 3D in a way that isn’t going to mess with your head, and doesn’t mean waring some stupid googles to do it. You’d have thought that it was built and designed by some boff from Nintendo in his spare time,…

  • Learing WordPress Tips

    Following my last post, I thought I’d actually take some of my own advice. It may not look it, but there’s been about 2 hours of work gone into this blog. Where you might ask. As indeed you may. I’ve wandered through the wordpress options and found the “widgets”. These are little gadgets that allow…

  • Passing time on the Internet

    Did you ever actually just stop and think about what your doing? I mean really. All that time reading other people’s blogs, all that time reading other people’s webcomics. It’s wonderful that they are there. It’s amazing the talent that some people have. I find it it a bit depressing really. Especially when I glance…

  • Lamenting the aging ETerm

    I’ve installed E17. Of course I have. I’m in search of a pretty desktop. Why? because I *like* eye-candy. I see no reason in running a powerful PC, and then putting a decent operating sytem on it, only to have it run IDLE most of the time. If you’ve got the power FLAUNT it. Beef…

  • Litestep Theme, 1.2

    For those of you that read this thing often… okay, for those of you that have found this by googling… I’ve gone and updated my theme. Being as I currently don’t have the time to produce a nice little thumbnail of it, I’ll link the full thing here, as well as the theme.rc for those…

  • Writting to a logfile and to the Screen in Linux

    While writing a complicated script, I found that I was in need of a way of writing to both Standard Out, and to the Syslog. Try as I might, I couldn’t find a way to do this, or at least, I couldn’t think of a way to do this that didn’t duplicate code, and didn’t…

  • Technorati Joining

    Technorati Profile So what is it all about then? Well, on reading a post about “how to get your blog better known”, the firs thing in the advice was “Join Technorati”. So I did. Unfortunately, I then went a lost the URL for the site. That’ll teach me to not bookmark things. Technorati seems to…

  • Free Non-Linux Based Operating Systems Investigated

    For a long time now I have been interested in finding the “next” generation of Operating Systems. As much as I do like Linux, it’s just far too… boring for me. The Architecture is old, and is evolving, but it’s not really… new. I always figured that the next generation of opearting systems would really…

  • Problem: java: xcb_xlib.c:82: xcb_xlib_unlock: Assertion `c->xlib.lock’ failed.

    Just updated to fedora 8. It seemed like a good idea at the time. The biggest problem that I’ve found is with this Java error: java: xcb_xlib.c:82: xcb_xlib_unlock: Assertion `c->xlib.lock’ failed. There are many fixes out there, some of which including sed’ing an .so file. That got me part of the way there, but didn’t…

  • Litestep Theme

    Yes, I have been a-theming. Basically, I went in search of a prettier windows desktop about a fortnight ago, and I found litestep. This is a funky replacement for the Explorer desktop which allows you to load some pretty themes. The problem was, none of them matched what I wanted to do, so I thought…

  • Setting Tab Completion in KSH

    [wmcdonald at willspc ~]$ ksh $ set -o vi $ set -o vi-tabcomplete $ ls test. [TAB-TAB] 1) test.conf 2) test.sh $ ls test. Found here: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2006-January/059030.html

  • Hot Removing SCSI devices

    How to Hot-Remove a SCSI device on Linux http://www-941.ibm.com/collaboration/wiki/display/LinuxP/SCSI+-+Hot+add,+remove,+rescan+of+SCSI+devices Pretty useful stuff. Black Xanthus

  • Geeks are worth It!

    Geeks Are Worth it Too