You have no idea how proud I am to have reached this milestone in my PinoyTux Weblog. Just yesterday, PinoyTux reached 30,000 visitors since March 30, 2008.
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There are a lot of times that I have been asked, and still being asked: Which Linux is the best? Or which Linux distribution is best for me?
I find it hard to answer the question since there are a lot of things that should be considered before getting your hands on a Linux installer. If I suggest a wrong distro, the user might get turned off, and shy away from using Linux. Among the things that should be considered is how ‘technically’ knowledgeable a user is. Some users tend to expect that Linux IS Windows and when they find out that it isn’t, they curse Linux.
Fortunately, there is a site that I find helpful to a situation like this. If you want to test yourself and see which Linux is best for you, visit www.zegeniestudios.net and take the Linux chooser test. After you answer the series of questions, you will be given suggestions of which Linux is best for you.
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After the arrival of Intrepid Ibex in October, in six month’s time it will depart to give way for a new Ubuntu and fortunately, Arstechnica revealed that the next Ubuntu Codename will be Jaunty Jackalope.
The codename Jaunty Jackalope was revealed by no other than Mark Shuttleworth himself and will be out in April, making it Ubuntu 9.04. According to Shuttleworth, Ubuntu is ready to compete with Desktop giants Windows and OS X and expects it to be shipped with millions of computers this coming year.
Improvements in the next version includes faster boot-up time and focused on general performance. Speed is the magic word and just like a Jaunty Jackalope, 9.04 aims to be lightning fast.
“The Warrior Rabbit is our talisman as we move into a year where we can reasonably expect Ubuntu to ship on several million devices, to consumers who can reasonably expect the software experience to be comparable to those of the traditional big OSV’s—Microsoft and Apple. The bar is set very high, and we have been given the opportunity to leap over it. It’s a once-in-a-lifetime chance to shine, and we want to make sure that the very best thinking across the whole open source ecosystem is reflected in Ubuntu, because many people will judge free software as a whole by what we do.” -Mark Shuttleworth
Source: Arstechnica
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I got a few wallpapers made for Ubuntu desktops that are Filipino-inspired while I was Googling for something to blog over the weekend. Luckily, I found more than enough to compile a collection of these Filipino-made wallpapers.
Wallpapers were contributed by members of ubuntuforums.org.
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Unmounting devices in Linux can be a bothersome because of the error “Device is Busy”. This particular error comes up when trying to unmount a drive or device that is being used by the filesystem:
# umount /media/WinXP
umount: /mediaWinXP: device is busy.
One workaround to this is to do a ‘lazy’ unmount:
# umount -l /media/WinXP
The switch -l disconnects the device from the filesystem even if it is being used. This works but quite messy since no further information will be given. If you want a cleaner unmount, fuser commands works well, too:
# fuser -m /dev/sdb1
/dev/sdb1: 1124
# ps axu | grep 1124
rai ... xmms
The ps command showed that xmms is the PID that uses the device /dev/sdb1. Close xmms and the drive can be unmounted safely.
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The US swimming team has made history in Olympics with Michael Phelps winning his 8th Gold Medal defeating Mark Spitz’s 7 Gold Medal record since 1972.
23-year old Michael Phelps consistently performed his best during the 2008 Olympics, proven by record-breaking speed at different swimming events. Eight times a winner, Phelps finally broke Mark Spitz’s record which remained untouched until now.
Phelp’s winning events include:
400 m individual medley 4:03.84 World record
4 x 100 m freestyle relay 3:08.24 World record
200 m freestyle 1:42.96 World record
200 m butterfly 1:52.03 World record
4 x 200 m freestyle relay 6:58.56 World record
200 m individual medley 1:54.23 World record
100 m butterfly 50.58 Olympic record
4 x 100 m medley relay 3:29.34 World record
Congratulations to Michael Phelps!
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I have a previous post on how to hide files inside an image file in Windows. If you have not read or watched the video yet, it is right here.
Anyway, a comment on that post gave a tip on how to do the same thing on Linux. Of course I tried it and it worked! According to Sebastian of mathemaniac.org, the concept here is really simple. An image file like JPG is read from the beginning of the file and terminated with an ‘End of Image’ marker. An archive file like ZIP has their metadata stored at the end of the file. Put them together and the image will be read as a valid image file and the appended ZIP file will be read as an archive.
Here is how to do it in Linux:
Get an image file and an archive of the files that you want to hide. In this example, I have cat beer_and_cig.jpg and hideme.zip file. The zip file contains an MP3 song that I have stored inside the archive. To create the archive-image file, run this command:
cat beer_and_cig.jpg hideme.zip > ucantseeme.jpg
What this does is the ‘cat‘ command reads the image file first, then reads the zip file and puts them together in the file named ucantseeme.jpg.
To test the integrity of the image file, try this:
# unzip -t ucantseeme.jpg
Archive: ucantseeme.jpg
warning [ucantseeme.jpg]: 4751 extra bytes at beginning or within zipfile
(attempting to process anyway)
testing: Feist - 09 - One Two Three Four.mp3 OK
No errors detected in compressed data of ucantseeme.jpg.
Notice the warning message? The test saw that there were few bytes at the beginning, which means it saw the image file first but the archive is intact and no errors were found.
Perfect!
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