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Putting my dugg stories at 疯狂漫谈::东正教教会学习 (http://nstanosheck.blogspot.com) was a big mistake I think. It quickly buried (Digg pun not intended) the stories about my personal life, which is why people go there in the first place, I believe. So I am moving my dugg stories back to “This Too Was Dugg By…“, here at https://nstanosheck.wordpress.com
So I have decided to combine my two blogs and all of my digg.com stories that I have dugg will go to my usual blog at http://nstanosheck.blogspot.com instead of here. I will keep this blog open as long as wordpress.com allows so as to have an archive of dugg stories. See you at the new blog!
I am thinking of blog consolidating and adding the articles that I digg at digg.com to my main blog at http://nstanosheck.blogspot.com — a blog that I have had since early 2003. I gthought it might be best to just keep one blog instead of many on various subjects. I can always use tags to separate things. Thoughts?
Using Google Experimental tool, launched few days ago, you will find this. Quite interesting. Change the individual distro to see their history too.
It is a blog made up almost solely of Orthodox and Linux related items that I have Dugg™ at Digg.com™. Outside of Great Lent and Holy Week and I think perhaps a few days of my Nativity Family Vacation, I have posted at least one Digg™ per day on this site since the first day I began this blog. How have I managed that? I have blogged in advance. This means I would find a story that I Dugg™, and would set it to hit the blog’s front page at a future date. (This is why the time posted almost always matches they date posted too. I like synchrosity.)
These days I Digg™ far less than I used too and have stopped pre-posting and post in real-time with new Diggs™, so y’all might be interested in another blog I have recently returned to and now update rather regularly. It is called “Insane Thoughts … and Orthodox Ecclesiology” which I started in 2003 and must confess that in focuses more on the words before the ellipsis (…) and to be truthful they tend to be sane thoughts, so perhaps the name is misleading. The blog can be found at http://orthodox.blogspot.com, the same place it has been since it started.
So if you do not see any updates here, or you want to learn more about me visit Insane Thoughts … and Orthodox Ecclesiology today, or some day in the future when you are reading this. Of course I posted this well in advance of the date that this will actually appear too! LOL!
Linux distro timeline
Posted on: Sunday 29 April 2007
Ballmer: Novell deal proves open source needs to ‘respect IP rights’
Posted on: Saturday 28 April 2007
During a forecast update meeting for financial analysts and shareholders on February 15, Ballmer reiterated that, to him, the deal is more about Microsoft exerting intellectual property (IP) pressure on Novell than anything else.
What is Yellow Dog Linux? Does it only run on Apple Macs and Sony PlayStations?
Posted on: Thursday 26 April 2007
An open source, Linux operating system for home, office, server, and cluster users. Built upon the Fedora Core, Terra Soft has since the spring of 1999 developed and maintained YDL for the Power architecture family of CPUs. This focus and dedication has lead to being proven to be the world-wide as the preferred Linux OS for the Power architecture.
One of the main problems people with Playstation 3 and 1080p displays is that under linux, there is a black border preventing useage of the full 1920x1080p display. Setting to fullscreen mode screws up the display. Well, this has finally been solved. After editing a few files you can get full 1920x1080p display on YDL PS3 without black borders!
The Sony PlayStation3 doing high def playback on YDL 5.0 whilst browsing the web.
There is a transition and a learning curve in moving from one operating system to another. Since many new users of Linux are former Windows users, there are many, many Web sites that discuss tips on how to move from Windows to Linux. Here are some tips on how to move from the Mac OS to Linux on your Apple Macintosh computer.
The story from the beginning of when Apple Computer, Inc. started letting 3rd parties sell Macintosh computers running Mac OS X and Linux, or in some cases, Linux alone. Why did they do this? It may be that Macs, particularly Apple’s PowerBook G4, have become commonplace at Linux events, such as the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in San Francisco.
How to get XVID/DIVX/DVD/MPEG playback on a PlayStation3 working using YDL
Posted on: Sunday 22 April 2007
This HOWTO, although tiny, is hours of trial and error finding and installing packages manually. Once you get the packages installed and launch xine you’ll have it working on your Sony Play Station 3 too. The free Yellow Dog Linux v.5.0 for the Sony PlayStation3 is required to make this work.
Like APT and Portage, Yum is a network-based package management system. You give it the network address of a repository that holds RPMs for your distribution along with appropriate Yum metadata. Thereafter, Yum can quickly check for new and upgraded packages, install packages by name without tedious CD-shuffling, and even update your entire system.
Linux Kernel hackers offering hardware companies free driver development
Posted on: Friday 20 April 2007
That’s right, the Linux kernel community is offering all companies free Linux driver development. No longer do you have to suffer through all of the different examples in the Linux Device Driver Kit, or pick through the thousands of example drivers in the Linux kernel source tree trying to determine which one is the closest to what you need to do.
And no, today’s blog entry is not about Orthodoxy, but about a Linux Desktop Environment. 😀 Enlightenment is simply put, beautiful. Not too heavy on the eye candy. Nor too light on ergonomics and function, Enlightenment is a blend of speed, efficiency, and end-user pleasure. Enlightenment provides an advanced end-user experience through the Enlightenment Window Manager and the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries.
Linux is an operating system that is available for free. It is what is known as open source, its source code is freely available for anyone to modify and as a result the operating system is very flexible; it runs on a variety of different platforms. It is commonly used in machines such as mobile phones and ATM’s and it’s now becoming quite popular.
Hack-a-thon brought together people from all over the world. Experts in bioinformatics, climatology, graphics, visualization, and science descended upon Loveland, Colorado for a Cell software development blitzkrieg. What ensued was a free form, cross-pollinating, spontaneous, whiteboarding, brainstorming, collaborative, cooperative, and creative forum.
Six of the world’s largest telecommunications companies have officially launched a non-profit foundation that aims to create a common Linux-based mobile phone software platform. The founders are Motorola, NEC, NTT DoCoMo, Panasonic Mobile Communications, Samsung Electronics, and Vodafone.
A brand spanking new Linux user finally got Java working in Firefox (running Yellow Dog Linux v.5.0 on a Sony PlayStation®3) and thought he would make his first contribution to the PPC Linux community by sharing the steps he took to make it work.
Russian Education Minister Nikolay Karpushin says schools will soon start using freely distributed software like the Linux OS, Russky Office and OpenOffice desktop apps because of the outrageous cost of Microsoft Vista and other commercial software. Russia has begun enforcing piracy laws in order to qualify to join the WTO.
Several popular Linux distributions are poised to take on Windows on the corporate desktop. But what is interesting about this article is that while dated, it is in the Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine Online. This very pro-Windows publication did an unbiased review of a number of distributions, and in the end saw Linux as a legit threat!
What? You had trouble upgrading your Windows OS to the latest version – Windows Vista? Not this guy. 2-minute video of a flawless upgrade. LOL!
Red Hat’s Fedora Core 6 vs. Terra Soft’s Yellow Dog Linux 5 on Sony’s PlayStation 3
Posted on: Tuesday 10 April 2007
Running Fedora Core 6 on the Sony PlayStation3 (PS3) allows you to use the PS3 just as you would a Linux-based desktop or light-weight server. It’s incredibly smooth, powerful, and well-supported. Installing and configuring FC6 takes twice as long as Yellow Dog Linux (YDL5) and isn’t nearly as easy if you don’t have Linux experience. If you’re new to Linux but want a fairly decent OS on your PS3, I’d recommend YDL5 for the PS3. It’s easier to install and easier to immediately use. It requires 720p, but supports all your devices and software immediately, and doesn’t require the same configuration steps that FC6 does.
Dear Friends in Christ,
I thought that I would let you all know that I will be going offline and not posting new entries for Great Lent — which starts today — so as such I wanted to say a temporary good-bye to all of you, my friends who read “This too was Dugg by … “. I shall return on Holy Pascha Sunday (26 March/8 April), the first day of Bright Week and the Paschal Season. I have a whole queue of entries ready to propagate starting that very day!
I hope that all of you will have a spiritually profitable Great Fast and may it grant you much spiritual growth. And since I will not be online after Forgiveness Vespers, in advance I ask you all, in the tradition of the Orthodox Forgiveness Sunday Vespers service, to please forgive me, a sinner for my many failings and enumerable faults.
Likewise pray that I will have a safe journey up to Loveland in March, when I plan to be the first person to buy the boxed version Yellow Dog Linux v.5.0 for PPC Macs in March!
Since Ubuntu for PPC Macs was axed, what should PowerPC Linux users do?
Posted on: Sunday 18 February 2007
Ubuntu is a very popular “new dog” to Linux distros but recently dropped their PowerPC support. Yellow Dog Linux was making Linux for PPC Macs, IBM servers, etc. way before it was socially acceptable to run Linux and they still do. With YDL 5.0 coming out at the end of February and Ubuntu ending official support for PPC, now is the time to switch!
The PowerPC edition of Ubuntu will be reclassified as unofficial. The PowerPC software itself and supporting infrastructure will continue to be available, and supported by a community team. Translation by OSNews.com: Ubuntu PPC can shake hands with the dodo.
Linux on the Sony Playstation 3 (PS3)? International Business Machines (IBM) thinks so. A tutorial now available on IBM’s developerWorks site provides the rundown on how to deploy Linux on the latest game station from Sony. The IBM tutorial specifically notes that Terra Soft Solutions’ Yellow Dog Linux (YDL) is the distro of choice for installation on the PS3, though there are other Linux distributions that currently will run on Sony’s hardware as well. But there’s more than a Linux endorsement story at work here.
Yellow Dog Linux v.5.0 to be released for Apple PPC Macintosh in late February
Posted on: Wednesday 14 February 2007
YDL v5.0 has been available for the PlayStation3 since November, but here is the PowerPC Mac delivery schedule: Install & Source ISOs available to download via YDL.net Enhanced accounts at close of February 2007. 2 weeks later, DVDs ship from the Terra Soft Store. 2 weeks after that, you can download Install & Source ISOs via the public mirrors.
Technology utopia? Wrong. South Korea is a unique monoculture where 99.9% of all the computer users are on Microsoft Windows. This nation is a place where Apple Macintosh, Linux, Mozilla Firefox, and Opera users cannot bank online, make any purchases online, or even interact with any of the nation’s e-government sites. It gets worse!
Themis and Terra Soft Offer 64-bit PowerPC Linux Board Support Package
Posted on: Saturday 10 February 2007
Themis Computer announced its collaboration with Terra Soft Solutions to deliver a complete Linux distribution for the TPPC64, Themis’ first in a new family of 6U VMEbus single board computers based on the IBM PowerPC 970FX superscalar RISC processor.
In a lengthy report into business deployments of open source software, published in full late last week, the EC said in “almost all cases” cost savings would be made by switching from proprietary to open source software. The bold findings come in stark contrast to assertions by Microsoft that Linux cost savings are a myth.
Gimp vs. Photoshop: Is The Gimp Just as Good as Adobe Photoshop?
Posted on: Thursday 8 February 2007
The vast majority of the people that pirate Photoshop do not need it. The people who legitimately use Photoshop use a fraction of its capabilities. Honestly, unless you’re putting out a print publication, you really don’t need Photoshop. You can just as easily use the Gimp to float text over a Dragonball-Z picture to post as your image signature …
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