[song] Every OS sucks!

Posted by Ktoso under freedom, fun (No Respond)

An very amazing and beautiful song I just had to share with you guys! It’s by http://www.deadtroll.com/ so feel free to get over to their site if you liked it :-) It’s my second favourite GeekSong – I’ll link my favourite next week (by VoidMain and an special guest!)… :-) Download the MP3 file: three_dead_trolls_in_a_baggie-every_os_sucks.mp3 [...]

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FDM – Not Libre but still a better way of selling music

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A week ago a friend of mine told me about an interesting idea by FDM (Fabryka Dźwięku z Muz – pl. ‘Factory of Sounds from Muses’ (it’s kinda hard to translate)). FDM is a small music label, supporting new and fresh artists (indie, could be a good word here I guess). As such, it’s not [...]

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(Almost) Automatically convert files into PDF

Posted by Ktoso under coding, freedom, fun, terminal heroes (No Respond)

I’m learning Numerical Analysis right now and a friend of mine found some really nice PS files by dr Marian Bubek ( http://www.icsr.agh.edu.pl/~mownit/mownit.html ). I was really happy to see some *.ps but some people from my fellow students started complaining that they’d rather have pdf’s and not ghostscript files (who knows why they’d do..?). [...]

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AWK and multiple lines from shell command

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Let’s say you want to read the ps output inside an AWK script, it’s not so simple since system returns an exit code and not the string you want – it’s being sent to stdout, here is a simple trick to read multiple lines from a shell command inside awk: awk ‘BEGIN{while (“ps aux” | [...]

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I’m an RHCT – yay!

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Yes, my GNU/Linux skills have been certified and now I can call myself a Red Hat Certified Technician as I’ve today passed the RH-202 exam with a 100% score – which leads me to the idea that I should have tried to tackle RHCE and not RHCT – I’ll do ir eventually someday I guess [...]

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Blender – 04 – Simple Present

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With this simple box i’ve learned a little about the “wave” property in blender. This, a little subsurv and smooth subdivision can actually be quite OK for creating a simple ribbon like the one below:The final render looked like this:

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Beauty: Ólafur Arnalds – Ljósið

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Ólafur Arnalds – Ljósið (Official Music Video) from Erased Tapes on Vimeo. Yet another amazing freedom using initiative. Let’s quote the homepage first: In April 2009, Iceland’s neo-classical export Ólafur Arnalds created the 7-song series ‘Found Songs’ – recording a song a day for 7 days and instantly making each track available via Twitter. With [...]

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Blender – 02 – Simple plain with sky

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And once again I’m having fun with blender… ;-) In this semester at my University we’ll have to do some simple 3D stuff in XSI. As I don’t want to “learn” a proprietary program I won’t have access to in my future I’m learning to use blender :-) It’s such an amazing tool, and the [...]

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Xplode – initial release

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Xplode, a simple open source J2ME game I’ve been coding some time just for fun is has gained a “quite playable” status now… So if you own a touch screen enabled device or just like to take a look at some source — please stay with me for a sec ;-) Xplode‘s idea is very [...]

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Chore DRM cz.1

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O tym że Digital Restrictions Management nie ma sensu i tylko przeszkadza legalnym użytkownikom przekonałem się (i setki innych, głównie graczy) nie raz… To co stało się 29 stycznia 2009 jednak pobiło wszystko co dotychczas widziałem (oprócz prince of persia psującego fizycznie napędy CD…). (Kliknij na aby powiększyć.) Posiadam oryginalną grę Gears of War (na [...]

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