I often find it necessary to express my inner geek side through my t-shirts. Be it in the form of my views about politics, computers, nature or just confusing tees that most people don’t know what they mean. So today I will share with you 10 of my favorite geeky linux inspired t-shirts that I own. Please share your collection in the comments.
1. “Values of B will give rise to dom.”
2. FATAL system error #nnnn CAUSE: We should never get here!
3. OHHHH…. I give up Core dumped
4. COMPILER UNABLE TO ABORT
5. AN ATTEMPT WAS MADE TO WRITE BEYOND THE MAXIMUM ASSIGNED SPACE FOR A MASS STORAGE FILE. AN ATTEMPT WAS MADE TO EXPAND A MASS STORAGE FILE BEYOND THE MAXIMUM ASSIGNED SPACE. A READ FUNCTION FOR A MASS STORAGE FILE SPECIFIED AN ADDRESS (WORD 5 OF THE I/O PACKET) THAT IS BEYOND THE MAXIMUM ASSIGNED SPACE. A READ OR WRITE FUNCTION FOR A WORD-ADDRESSABLE MASS STORAG FILE SPECIFIED A MASS STORAGE ADDRESS (WORD 5 OF THE I/O PACKET) AND A TOTAL DATA COUNT. WHEN THE MASS STORAGE ADDRESS IS ADDED TO THE TOTAL DATA COUNT, THE RESULTING ENDING MASS STORAGE ADDRESS IS GREATER THAN 2*/35-1. A READ OR WRITE FUNCTION FOR A SECTOR-FORMATTED MASS STORAGE FILE SPECIFIED A MASS STORAGE ADDRESS (WORD 5 OF THE I/O PACKET) THAT IS GREATER THAN 2*/30-1. ADI ONLY: REFERENCE ATTEMPTED BEYOND THE ASSIGNED FILE WHEN THE FILE IS CONFIGURED AS A FH-432 OR FH-1782 DRUM.
6. ERROR: A really big XXXX UP has been detected !!
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If you want to repair computers in Texas then you need to complete a three year apprenticeship and get your private investigator license first. Either that or face a year in jail, according to an amendment to the Texas Occupations Code…
The Institute for Justice has filed a lawsuit on behalf of computer repair guy Mike Rife against the Texas Private Security Bureau (PSB) arguing that a new law unconstitutionally denies computer repair companies the right to work in their chosen profession. This based around the Texas Constitution which protects the right of Texans to earn an honest living without unreasonable government interference.
By popular demand, a guide to writing a Gnome app:
* Find some reasonable app from another platform (Windows, Mac, KDE, whatever, but preferably, Mac). Bonus points if there are already 3 other gtk-based alternatives who don’t want to integrate with Gnome.
* You MUST have a g somewhere in the gname. Extra credit if you can make it a “gn”. If you can use “gnu” or “gno” or “gna” you’re are gnawesome, and your app is already worth using. Make sure the name of your app bears no relevance to what it actually does. Also, NEVER document if the g is pronounced with the hard-g sound.
There’s nothing like a good battle to liven up the conversation on the Linux blogs, and that’s just what happened last week thanks to the resurgence in the controversy over OOXML. Following appeals by South Africa, India, Brazil and Venezuela, the fate of OOXML — and indeed standards-making in general — is far from clear. “I think OOXML will cause the greatest wave of change to how national standards bodies conduct themselves that we have seen in the last decade or two,” wrote IBM’s Bob Sutor on his blog.
As I ate dinner at a recent LUG meeting, I found myself pleasantly surrounded by a group of people with the same intense passion. We all shared a thorough love for the beneficial and effective Linux operating system.
Yet, as I spoke with two in particular, it became evident to me that perhaps some of the ways in which we in the community evangelize could use some honing. As WJ talked to me about his plan to encourage (his word was “make”) leadership in his organization use more Linux and OSS, I got to thinking that it may be time for another community article.
From my conversations and my own personal perspective I include a list of the top five ways not to evangelize Linux, or perhaps restated, how not to screw up a good thing:
The greatest luxury of our time is time itself. Thus it’s a deadly sin to simply waste it. As we all know time is relative and the more fun you have, the faster time passes. Being bored is the most cruel way to waste time. So, in our quest to happiness, I advise you never to be bored, always be occupied and busy, and most of all, enjoy what you’re doing!
These are my TOP 5 in covering time gaps with more joy and less boredom:
In a bit of off the cuff humor, I’ve created another Linux Top Ten Countdown. It’s nowhere near as funny without a drum roll, so perhaps you may wish to download and listen to one while reading the list. Some of these items appeared originally in my article for The Linux Journal (Dec 2007, Issue 164).
You may also be interested in: Top Ten Reasons to Protect Your Linux System.
Hopefully, these tips will help settle once and for all why Linux is a perfect fit for any laptop.
WordPress plugins for multimedia can make your blog more interesting. These four plugins make it possible to automatically generate and configure multimedia, making your site a richer experience for your visitors and for you.
Extension seriesExtension seriesOdiogo is a free service that converts your blog posts into audio podcasts. The Odiogo Listen Button plugin for WordPress makes it easy for your visitors to listen to and even save the audio version of your posts.
To activate Odiogo, you have to sign up and wait for the powers that be to approve your site and convert the posts, a process that could take 48 hours or more. Once you’re approved, Odiogo sends you a feed ID and a link to your audio feed. Download the Listen Button plugin and install it, enter your five-digit feed ID in the administrative section of your WordPress installation, and a small, unobtrusive listen button appears automatically near the top of each post on your site. When clicked, an embedded audio player appears and plays an MP3 file that is a word for word version of the post.
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“Geeks making the world better one bit at a time.” That’s the playful slogan for the University of North Carolina’s “Maze Day,” during which scores of blind and visually impaired children from across the state came out Wednesday morning to test drive computer programs especially designed for them. The event — held in a labyrinth of rooms on the first and second floors of UNC’s Sitterson Hall — featured about 20 software programs with state-of-the art video game equipment and, in some cases, innovative twists to conventional classics, such as “Braille Twister.”
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In an effort to promote the latest book in the Star Wars “Legacy of the Force” series, starting at 9am tomorrow (Tuesday, April 29), Del Ray will give out book one Betrayal for free as an audio book, eBook, and PDF download. Betrayal, which was a New York Times Bestseller, is the first book in the series and the free download will be available for two weeks until May 13, when the ninth and final book, Invicible, is released. This is an interesting marketing tactic from Del Ray, which is emulating popular music acts.
Wikipedia is without a doubt, one of World Wide Web’s wonders. I myself used Wikipedia to search information on many things, from education to entertainment. There are many cool things that you can learn from the vast amount of information inside Wikipedia. Thus in this post, I have listed down 20 little known ways and tools to use Wikipedia.
Looking for a way to perk up your Monday morning? Tombuntu has a good introduction to using eSpeak on Ubuntu. eSpeak is a voice synthesizer included by default in Ubuntu and available from here for other distributions that don’t include it. The most basic way to use eSpeak is to tell it what to say in inverted commas at the command line:
Laugh along with GNUThis is a web page designed to provide some laughs to the working hackers.
It contains software, documentation, music, poems, etc. submitted by GNU users and collected by GNU contributers over the years.
Many of the graphics in the GNU Art Gallery also have humorous twists.
To save money, I cobbled together a computer for my mother out of cast-offs left over from my own upgrades. She doesn’t need a cutting-edge computer because she’s not a power user, but she does need a reliable machine to run a few basic applications and to access the Internet. I moved my mother from Windows to Ubuntu Linux, and the experience was a surprisingly smooth one.
The machine I gave her sports a 2.2GHz Intel Celeron CPU, 512MB of RAM, and Nvidia MX440 graphics card with 64MB of RAM. It’s not a cutting-edge gaming rig, but it’s an adequate machine for her needs, which include email, Web browsing, music and video playback, photo management, and word processing.
Let me count the ways…an open letter to Linux
Way number 1: You breathe new life into old hardware. They should age PCs in dog years. Here’s a trusted dog year calendar that helped me better determine the age of my Laptop. My three-year old laptop is going on 25 dog years now, and Windows is like the Army, and 25 year old recruits are starting to get too old to put on the front lines. The average Windows PC lasts three to four years, which at best, would give my laptop a little less than a year to accept its demise. Thanks to you, my laptop should get at least another three years in it, three years of happy blissful churning away of bits and bytes.
Why shouldn’t the Linux community have a YouTube of it’s own? LinTube does just that: offers Linux and OSS-related videos. Just a beta project for now, user registration will be opened in two weeks.
Allow me to introduce the software that will change graphics on the Linux desktop forever. The Linux graphics toolkit has been missing one crucial tool: a way to quickly render human models, similar to the commercial, proprietary Poser. Well, we’ve got that now.
MakeHuman is this fantastic work of software magic. I ran into it over on Eric’s Binary World. So that’s a big one that Eric scooped me on, and he’s reviewed and commented on it as well.
Now, Eric, if you visited that link, is happy to render naked bald women over there. That’s “to each his own” - I kinda got my fill of those after Lieutenant Ilia in the first Star Trek movie. Now, me, when I sit down with a human model renderer, the first thing I think of is drawing an alien freak:
I have collected 50 of my favorite “Linux quotes” of all time. Feel free to add yours. Enjoy!
50. I develop for Linux for a living, I used to develop for DOS.
Going from DOS to Linux is like trading a glider for an F117.
– Lawrence Foard, entropy@world.std.com
49. Avoid the Gates of Hell. Use Linux
– unknown source