Free and Open Source blogger with an attitude
Openoffice 2.0 Release Candidate has been released!
So without wasting any time, I download this amazing office suite from Openoffice.org.
Yeah it worked great! Every computer in my house only use Openoffice instead of Microsoft Office even in Windows-only computer, simply because it is smaller and contains most of the thing that my family (and I) ever need!
Easy, simple, no bloated feature, no clippit that hangs around wasting your CPU resources.
DOSBox 0.63 has been downloaded 1,000,000 times!
For the uninitiated, DOSBox is a DOS Emulator designed specifically to run your old DOS games. Yup, that’s right, old DOS games back in 1990s and late 1980s. Why play old DOS games? We got newer and latest games right here!
First of all, personal preference, some people like to play old games because they simply liked it! Though some of them require some extra reading in the games’ manual, there people who prefer the old dos games.
Second, Older games tends to bring sentimental feeling to it, as you can recall yourself in your younger days, how many are your remembered playing Prince of persia (the original one) and Dune II?
Finally, Old DOS games tends to put gameplay more than high-tech graphic representation than the latest games, well this is not a bad thing because the scene of PC gaming have changed and has been influence by popular gaming console, but there are some people who prefers one over another. For example, The Sims demonstrate that there are people who prefer gameplay factor rather than extensive graphics, and its popular until now.
The only problem is, to find a suitable environment to play your dos games, and I’m used to have the DOS 6.12 in my pc just to play DOS games (and my soundcard has DOS driver), but now with DOSBox, I can play those games right in my GNU/Linux box! Well, DOSBox is available in other operating system too, including MS Windows.
Using DOSBox is easy! you just run the DOSBox executables, and mount your games directory as one of the available DOS drive, pretty simple, and your game will be playable as if it in a real DOS environment.
Happy (DOS) gaming!
Yesterday I got around my free time to try out Freesbie, a BSD LiveCD based on FreeBSD. 
The LiveCD is nice, as it boot on several of my pc without any problem. Upon booting, you’ll be presented with the typical FreeBSD boot screen. After that a screen will prompt you to your keyboard layout and your locale. The last screen will prompt you to choose whether you want to boot into console (tcsh), fluxbox or Xfce (GUI mode).
Upon entering Xfce window manager I could connect to internet instantly using DHCP, but as a challange, I tried to connect the internet through manual dialing using dial-up modem and adsl modem, both works perfectly!
Freesbie also took the initiatives to mount all mountable partitions it could find (Linux partition, vfat partitions, UFS partitions) and really ease the job. My USB drive also are detectable and mounted upon insertion (hotplug-style). Making everyday work a breeze.
The thing that I’m not fond of Freesbie is, the default user of the system is “root”. Well, that makes me a bit nervous when working with freesbie, because user apps is running as superuser priviledges.
FreeBSD includes movie player and xmms player, but unfortunately i cant enjoy any of it because the freesbie developer neglect to include my soundcard module “fm-801” inside the cd. So if your soundcard is not listed in the screenshot below, then you will have a mute freesbie box :
I must say that the choice of application included in Freesbie is friendly to home/average user (well since most people tells me BSD is for elite people, which i personally believe untrue), It includes among others, openoffice suite, moz firefox webbrowser, xchat irc client, gaim instant-messenger, thunderbird email client, bittorrent client and many goodies.
The LiveCD also double as installer cd as you can install a fully working FreeBSD 5.3 in your system. With stable internet connection, you can cvsup it to the current release of FreeBSD.
Overall, Freesbie is an nice LiveCD based on BSD, which offers usability for users who want to try out BSD-based operating system without messing up with their hdd. It’s convenient to use, and newbie friendly too, I hope that I can continue to see a better Freesbie in the future. :)
This is a summary of a real-life story about upgrading a Microsoft product :
Conclusion :
Remind me of my own experience with tech support, the lenghty one which tells me to check blinking lights, delete certain icons from my desktop and create it back. Oh sorry, there’s no winning prizes for those who can guess it right…
Upon reading gaim source code and documentation, I came accross this interesting irc log :
CopyMe: ok, how do I copy a file and paste into another directory
Zilding: cp
CopyMe: what does that do
CopyMe: copy?
Zilding: yeah
CopyMe: then how do you paste it?
no comment :p
My blog reached 100th post today! When i first started this blog, i never thought that I would have come this far, because I’m just not a person who likes to jot down every details on my life or even keep a simple journal.
Well now I did it, I even cant see when will I stop blogging! Thanks to all of you that supported me… :)