July 20, 2009 at 6:50 am (News)
I don’t seem to know what happened there, i seem to have totally fizzled out on the blog. I’m pretty busy at the moment but even when I am not i don’t frequent my own blog to to post. I guess i seem to have run out of things to say a bit.
Ahh well, a quick theme change and ill leave the blog for a bit. It will still be here when im gone so i can give it some time, store up some ideas, and come back to it when I am ready. 
June 11, 2009 at 9:57 am (News)
Tags: free, full circle, magazine, ubuntu
I was reminded of this cracking free download magazine yesterday. its a downloadable free magazine about Ubuntu of course.
I went looking for all my old issues last night and in true distro hopper style realised they had been swallowed by the hard drive monster yonks ago. I grabbed the most recent issue and after a quick read found it to still be a really good quality magazine.
Now why cant they sell it in newsagents eh? ^^
Have a nosey and download a copy yourself, its free so whats stopping you? ^^
June 10, 2009 at 2:22 pm (News)
Tags: magazine, ubuntu, user
I spotted a new magazine in WHSmiths today. Its was called Ubuntu-User and was made by the same people that make Linux-Magazine.
I snarffled a copy of it of course. Now, much though im happy Ubuntu has gotten big enough to make people feel its worth its own magazine, and much though the articles were ok, i wont be buying the secound issue unless it bulks out a bit.
I found myself wondering about the steep price of £8 for such a thin magazine with such little content. Even the disk is a free download and is on the front of every other Linux magazine about.
Anywhos, if your interested you can find their website at ; www.ubuntu-user.com
Happy reading!
June 5, 2009 at 10:24 pm (News)
Tags: linux, linux.com, tour
Ive been having a nosey around the new and improved linux.com recently and ive got say the new website is awesome! I absolutely love it!
It has a mix of blogs, news, guides, documentation, distro news all sorts. Very good, i have bookmarked the site and registered already of course.
I got into the site more though when i read the tour guide (yes there’s a tour of the website).
Go have a nosey, its a really good website now, theres a lot to see.
May 30, 2009 at 11:41 am (News)
Tags: games, linux, penumbra
Artificial-Intelligence just posted up on Ubuntu Magazine that the whole Penumbra set of games are available for $20. Just passing the news on, go have a look They are truly awesome games!
May 21, 2009 at 5:57 pm (News)
Tags: games, linux, sale, tux, ubuntu
Tux Games are having a sale on their LGP games. Worth a nosey if your a gamer
13 May 2009
Following the sale over at LGP, we are reducing our prices on most LGP titles. The sale will last for the next 6 weeks, with discounts of up to 64%!
April 26, 2009 at 9:04 pm (News)
For me the best Ubuntu gaming site always has been Ubuntu Gamers Arena. For the time being it will remain so. ^^ However, i noticed today theres a new site just popped up with a few reviews on. It appears to only have a few games reviews on and a small forum on so far. Maybe worth a bookmark and check back a later date though aye. ^^
March 13, 2009 at 11:46 pm (News)
Tags: 4.6, linux, mint, xfce, zenwalk 6.0
There has been two new XFCE distros released this month that i love! I ad to download the pair of them the secound they hit the mirrors ^^
Zenwalk 6.0 and Mint XFCE CE 6 Felicia (that one has a long name ^^ ). So what are they about, and why try them?
Zenwalk is also one of the cleanest, nicest feeling XFCE distros out there. It uses XFCE 4.6 (yayness!). Its based on Slackware, not Ubuntu. Do not let that deter you though if your an Ubuntu boy or girl, Zenwalks absolutely fantastic and well worth the download! It’s hard to put your finger on it, but Zenwalk realy does just feel right with XFCE. I think thats why i liked it so much. ^^
Mint XFCE 6 is an Ubuntu based distro that is much prettier and has a large number of codec’s pre installed. The sexyness is one of the defining features of Mint. It uses a clean theme and doesn’t look as ‘gnomey’ as Xubuntu (a good thing IMHO, I have always hated that about Xubuntu). Mint XFCE 6 is based of Xubuntu 8.10 intrepid Ibex so It uses intrepid’s repos.
Zenwalks additions to 6.0 are :
- Kernel 2.6.28.7 with gspca (supports many USB webcams)
- The new XFCE 4.6
- Openoffice 3.0.1 replaces Gnome Office as the main productivity suite
- Wicd becomes the main network configuration tool
- New Zenpanel with integrated Disk Manager, Wifi and Wired Network Manager
- Gksu keyring based desktop granting system
- Faster boot (tuned init scripts, with realtime I/O scheduler)
- PAM authentication has been added to the system
- Improved suspend/hibernate, with XFCE Power Manager
- new Netpkg with orphan dependencies and “offline operation” support
- The powerful Exaile juke-box stream player has been added
- New artwork
- A simplified installer
The updates to Mint XFCE in 6.0 Felicia are :
-mintInstall 5, the “Software Manager”
-mintUpdate 3, a brand new Update Manager
-mintUpload 2, with FTP support
-mintNanny – Minimal parental control
-mintDesktop – now shows Compiz Fusion status
-Remote Desktop – as easy as in Gnome
-Command line goodies – search, apt content and apt contains
-mint4win – A Windows installer for Linux Mint
New software
-Giver
-Gufw
-Thunar Shares – for easy folder sharing
-GPRS EasyConnect – for management of mobile connections
-Flegita
Here the links to the respective websites :
February 27, 2009 at 9:50 pm (News)
Tags: 4.6, de, linux, xfce, xubuntu
ZMG YAYS!!! ^^ (Xubuntu Install Guide Here)
Oki, ill confess, i had not looked at the XFCE website for a while. Then i saw on Ubuntu Forums that 4.6 had been released and i was like ‘ooooooooooo stuff my previous blog entry! gimme backs that XFCE mousey!’ ^^
‘Whats XFCE?’ i hear some of you whisper. For shame on you! ^^ XFCE is a desktop environment for Linux. Its fairly lightweight, pretty quick, looks elegant, and has a mouse for a mascot (the mouse does it realy doesnt it? ^^). Its not as light as the *box environments anymore, its easily the heaviest of the ‘lightweight’ environments. But i love it all the same! ^^
So off to the website i went, downloaded and installed XFCE 4.6, and have been using it today. I love it! There is some simple addition’s i love. Being able to use the side mouse buttons to move back and forward in Thunar.
I am also a panel widget junkie, so the updated panel appeals to me greatly ^^
The settings manager has had a tweak too.
This probably is not going to make it into Jaunty’s Xubuntu release. Its come a little to late for it to go in and be stable. However, all goes well, lets hope it makes an appearance in 9.10 Koala ^^
There is however a nice easy graphical installer to help you install XFCE 4.6 on your Linux box. ^^
Anyways, I am off to have a good fiddle with my fave little desktop, ill leave you with a couple of links. ^^
October 9, 2008 at 7:46 pm (News)
Tags: dofus, heroic server, linux, mmo, mmorpg
Huzaah! The hardcore server has arrived and theres been a slaughter so far! 130,000 dead so far and rising fast!
130,000 dead adventurers will now be able to share their experience and chitchat in the Cemetery of Heroes about their pathetic ending and the trophies they have won.
As for those who are still alive, they will closely follow their ranking and look for their opponents in the Fields of Glory.
Now we just need to find the 5,000+ people who got killed by a tofu ^^
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