So, I finally got around to upgrading Koko to Squeeze (Debian 6.0) last night ( Read more... )

So, I've been playing around with Blender, and I've built this robot. Here's a still render of "Alpha"
( Cut for size )

It seems I've been a bit lax in my system administration. The Debian community released Lenney, the new stable version of Debian (5.0), on the 14th of last month, and I'm just getting around to upgrading. I actually didn't know it was out until last night, when I was replying to a forum post and needed to reference the system resources required for ( Read more... )

Microsoft has announced that Windows XP(tm) will no longer be available for most platforms and users after June 30th. This move makes sense for them, but it's not necessarily beneficial to their customers.
Luckily, there are options. ( Read more... )

Since I set up that xsession chooser, all I have to do to switch from IceWM to XFCE4 is type echo xfce > .wmrc and then run startx.
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Last night, when I finished up, I forgot something important.
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I've been needing a Webcam for a while, pretty much since I got new computers that didn't have parallel ports. I have a perfectly good camera, but it's parallel (from the days when I had computers with no USB ports (incidentally because the version of Windows(tm) I had didn't support it)). Recently, I had a friend offer to send me one, but since ( Read more... )

I wasn't around yesterday because I spent the day setting up my mom's computer and doing homework ( Read more... )

1. Botnets surpass DoS as top security issue, survey says
2. When Macs Attack (Actually, the exploit was for PHP, not MacOS or Linux)
3. Attack of the PC Zombies!
4. Are you in a botnet?
5. 1/4 of all computers are zombies (part of a botnet)
6. Is Your Computer Part Of A Botnet?
7. Note to new Linux users: No antivirus needed - Personally, I use ( Read more... )

I was so excited last week when I ran "apt-get upgrade" and saw hundreds of new packages. I knew right away that the newest version of Debian, codenamed "Etch", had been released ( Read more... )