Check out this video below. Its basically an animation about an MIT social experiment, where sociologist found a bizarre pattern when it came to work and incentives. When the task at hand was a mundane and a repetitive task, money was found as perfect incentive. However, when the task required “rudimentary cognitive” skills, money, it turns out, »
Watching Youtube’s Flash videos in full screen can be a very disconcerting experience for Linux users (I don’t know how it is on other platforms.) How cool would it be if you can load a Youtube video in your favorite movie player with a click of one button? Well here is a little hack that would make your life Flash free. Its gonna happen sooner or later, why don’t we just make it sooner!
In the “discovery of the week” segment in the latest Tux Radar Podcast, Mike’s discovery was a nifty little tool called VRMS, or Virtual Richard Mathew Stallman.
Its no secret that Apple keeps its products held very closely in attempt to lock users in their own walled-garden. While most people seem more than happy to lock themselves down, most Linux users are disgusted by Apple’s practices but still own an Apple device for some reason or another.
Songbird, the popular open source media player has announced that it will halt its support for Linux. Currently the Songbird team is working fervently to meet their next release, NOFX, release date scheduled April 26th. It seems that Songbird’s small team has too much on its plate and came to this disheartening decision:
Hello fellow Linuxologists! I am sure you have noticed that it has been a while since a new blogpost popped up in your RSS/Twitter feed. Don’t worry, we are not dead (yes we, its not just Rami anymore.)
Wrap your head around this: In a couple of hours, the 90′s will be 20 years ago! Yup, its scary I know. But hey think of it this way: in 1990 we didn’t even have Linux, and in 2000 Linux looks like a crippled OS compared to today’s Linux. So its all good. Here I »
Today the Linux Foundation announced a new holiday promotion. Â For every new individual member who joins ($99/year), the Linux Foundation will also give a free membership to a student. By joining the Linux Foundation, members help support the work of Linus Torvalds, as well as programs that promote and protect Linux. Â Members have access to »
As a small (30 MB), quick-to-boot distro, SliTaz is entering a field well-served by the likes of DSL and Puppy Linux. When going up against such heavyweights, SliTaz must offer something truly remarkable to distinguish itself. This brief review of the LiveCD version demonstrates where SliTaz has exceeded expectations – and a few places it »
I don’t know about you, but when ever a computer screen appears in a movie or series I instantly focus on the interface, trying to glean what they have installed on the device. Even better, when possible, I pause and try to analyze and read the damn thing. We dugg up 7 instances of KDE »
