If you remember back a while ago I wrote about One Laptop Per Child project that aim to produce laptop at a cost of USD100. The project has been progressing positively since I wrot e about them on my blog. Several prototype has been made and now OLPC association has received its very first B1 […]
A quick tip, you can find about all partition type in your system by typing “fdisk -l” (as root). For example : With this command fdisk lists partition type in all disks without you having to mount them. What can you do with these information? You can use it as a clue to mount your […]
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This tip will be brief, it concerns about writing bootable linux iso images to CDROM. What you need is cdrecord, cd-writer drive, blank cd-r and iso image (and maybe mkisofs). Howto burn ISO images to CD Insert the blank CD-R, and run cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=/dev/cdrom ubuntu-6.10-desktop-i386.iso and you’re done. Howto burn (backup) files to […]
Hi, I found a way to optimise the size of OpenOffice.org files. The OpenOffice.org file format (*.odt, *.odp, *.sxw, etc) uses series of xml files to describe the content of documents. These files are package into a JAR file (similar with zip file format) which uses deflate compression algorithm. Though OpenOffice.org files are relatively small, […]
These past few days I’ve been hooked up playing Tremulous, an open source First Person Shooter (FPS) game. The objective of the game is to protect your team’s base and eliminate the enemy base. You can choose one of the two sides, either as member of human team or as an alien species. Each side […]