LinuxQuestions.org - Blog Entries

Openism: My idea of an ideal economy

Posted 05-27-2010 at 06:04 PM by Kenny_Strawn (Kenny the one-teen comittee to stamp out Proprietary $uckware)

Richard Stallman sure has been a leader in the free software movement. But what if free and open source was applied to all goods? Here's the story of the ideal economy in which everybody works online to manufacture goods, develop software, express their talent, and write documents, all for the good of the world, without using money.

First of all, money is only a cap on the economy as a whole. It acts as a barrier, preventing everyone but a privileged minority from being able to...

Kenny_Strawn

Senior Member

Posted in Uncategorized

Views 2908 Comments 6 Kenny_Strawn is offline

Ubuntu Control Center (ucc) - Simple tool for ubuntu administration

Posted 05-27-2010 at 09:34 AM by sridhar11

Ubuntu Control Center or UCC is an application inspired by Mandriva Control Center and aims to centralize and organize in a simple and intuitive form the main configuration tools for Ubuntu distribution. UCC uses all the native applications already bundled with Ubuntu, but it also utilize some third-party apps like “Hardinfo”,
“Boot-up Manager”, “GuFW” and “Font-Manager”.

Full Story

sridhar11

Member

Posted in Uncategorized

Views 799 Comments 0 sridhar11 is offline

Gentoo with dual monitor(with accleration) XD

Posted 05-27-2010 at 06:18 AM by Raynus
Updated 05-27-2010 at 06:24 AM by Raynus

Now my gentoo system is almost fully functional

i've just solve the problem that i was unable to
use multimonitor with hardware acceleration
the config from X -confiure didn't allow me to do that
"the visual screez size is too large" it said,
At firstthe googling sugest me to use Xinerama
ok its allow me to use dual monitor , but withou accleartion
:P so i've put the Visual 3200 1080 option in all Deph section
in xorg.conf...

Raynus

Member

Posted in Uncategorized

Views 950 Comments 0 Raynus is offline

So sick, so tired

Posted 05-27-2010 at 12:12 AM by disturbed1
Updated 05-27-2010 at 12:22 AM by disturbed1

I am just so sick, and so tired of ignorance! Not sure if it's a false sense of entitlement, pure laziness or what. At first I thought it was only us Americans and our Walmart Mentality, but this seems to be a world wide epidemic!

Perhaps it's because I'm from another generation. We were not allowed to use calculators in math class. I took the SAT without one, and survived 400 level Calculus and Statical Analysis classes in college without one. There was no Google, or wikipedia for...

disturbed1

Senior Member

Posted in Uncategorized

Views 3352 Comments 6 disturbed1 is offline

Why GUADEC?

Posted 05-24-2010 at 07:18 AM by williamfromtexas
Updated 05-24-2010 at 07:22 AM by williamfromtexas

Tags community, conference, gnome, guadec, irl

I've become involved in preparations for GUADEC 2010, the GNOME Users And Developers European Conference 2010. I can go into detail about the size and scope of the thing, but you can find out more on the website. I'd rather talk about why I became involved.

I am a GNOME user. I know: I fall into a pretty 'vanilla' category for being a fan of the world's most popular linux flavour. But I like it and and it works. And one of the things that impressed me so much about it was GNOME. Years...

williamfromtexas

LQ Newbie

Posted in Uncategorized

Views 1056 Comments 0 williamfromtexas is offline

Page 867 of 1387

867