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You know you are a complete Linux nutter when... ( & Google/Wikipedia elinks search scripts )

Posted 09-28-2010 at 07:56 AM by William (Dthdealer) (Whaling the FOSS)

You have one computer on the left. A second older computer sits to your right, sshed into the first.

You play a game fullscreen on the first, while running scanmem on the other. Who ever needed multiple monitor outputs?

I only realised what I was doing when I took a few steps back. Anyone passing by would probably think I'm cracking into someone's computer whilst playing some MineCraft.

+1 multitasking

While I'm here, here are two useful scripts...

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Atomic Magazine now on my hitlist

Posted 08-09-2010 at 06:27 AM by William (Dthdealer) (Whaling the FOSS)

I was a happy customer of Atomic magazine, until I received this month's issue today.

Quote:

Although you could install a free version of the Linux operating system, Windows 7 has many more applications ( both free and commercial ) and it's much easier to use and far superior for gaming.

Any Linux guru should point out four things that are blatantly wrong here. It is thanks to words such as this that people fear free operating systems, and vicious rumours start.
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Linux Space Efficiency Testimonial

Posted 07-27-2010 at 03:53 AM by William (Dthdealer) (Whaling the FOSS)

Running a mature Ubuntu system, with dozens of games installed ( Including Tremulous, Sauerbraten, Nexuiz and Warsow ), this is my partition usage ( from df -h ) :

Code:

Filesystem            Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5              20G  8.2G   11G  44% /
/dev/sda3              89M   64M   21M  76% /boot
/dev/sda7             169G   30G  131G  19% /home

8.2GB contains everything in my installation not including private files or my bootloader.
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