Thank you, Fox News

Fox News, Thank you for quickly fixing video problems under Linux.

Right Now, I am using Ubutu and Fox News Video site is working great!

Fox News, I have just two words for you..

THANK YOU.

Links:

• Fox News Video
  

Stallman switches to OLPC XO

The FSF founder Richard Stallman has moved to OLPC XO Laptop, there by replacing his old IBM-T23.



Richard Stallman has revealed this, in his blog entry at FSF.org.

OLPC XO laptop uses the vendor neutral Open Fireware, and Except OLPC XO, all other laptops use proprietary BIOS. This was a major reason for his laptop change.

Richard Stallman also written about the importance of keeping OLPC project safe from the hands of evil Microsoft.

Richard Stallman has also asked the free software developers to help Sugar, which is the core of OLPC software Environment.

You can read rest of his blog entry here.

Links:

• Richard Stallman blog @ FSF.org
  

One more reason to switch to FireFox!

You Don't have to Pay to Play..

Mac vs PC UK

Here is the Mac vs PC UK video, which i came across @ YouTube. Its really funny..

Ubuntu - A New look

remix-polish-full, originally uploaded by Raghu Nayak.

Ubuntu Hardy Heron Wallpaper. :)

Flickr

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

Computer viruses hit one Million mark!

This may be a pretty old news for many people, But I still want to discuss.

The computer viruses count has hit 1 Million mark this month. This count includes viruses, worms, trojans and other malicious code threats. This information was revealed by Symantec in their latest edition of bi-annual Internet Security Threat Report.


Thanks to Linux, I need not worry about 99.999% of them.

Here are the few interesting statistics.

1. The total number of computer viruses present is around 1,122,311.
   
2. Almost two thirds of them or 499,811 viruses were created during the second half of 2007.
   
3. Almost all of them target Windows operating system.
   

Links:

• BBC

The Pirate Bay Launches Uncensored Blogging Service

The creators of The Pirate Bay have launched their new service, an uncensored blogging service, named Baywords.

This blogging is service is intended for anyone who want to be able to write or blog about anything they want, without being afraid of getting shut down by their blog host.

Only thing to take care is that, the blog should not violate any Swedish laws.



Brokep, the co-founder of site said

Many blogs are being shut down for uncomfortable thoughts and ideas. We will not do that. Our goal is to protect freedom of speech and your thoughts. As long as you don’t break any Swedish laws in your blog, we will defend it.

I have registered a new blog with BayWords. You can see it here.

BayWords uses WordPress 2.5 MU version. As of now BayWords has around 40 themes to choose from. There is also plugin support, but as of now there is only 1 plugin available to activate. Users can upload media to BayWords, however the exact amount free space available is still unknown.

As mentioned in BayWords, the upcoming features are..

1. support for custom domain name.
2. Lots of new themes.
3. Improved blog statistics.
4. And lots of other new featuress

As of now there are no ads displayed in user blogs. However in future there will be ads blended with the blog themes to cover up the hosting and maintenance cost. However, Brokep has promised the amount of ads displayed will be minimal.

Only missing thing currently is the custom Java script support. There is no way to add your own java-script to your weblog. Well, this is actually the limitation of the Wordpress MU version itself. It would have been great if, custom java-scripts were supported. Without custom javascript there is no way to have your own stat counter, Google analytics or Google adsense.

Overall, This is the blogging service that I have been waiting for! I always wanted to have a un-censored web log. The wordpress.com blog is too restrictive if you want to blog about anything sensitive. Forget about the paid hosting, they will suspend your hosting account if you do that. This is the main reason why I moved my blog from paid hosting to BlogSpot.

I am not sure, but I hope that I will maintain and keep updating my new blog @ BayWords.

So, What are you waiting for ? Go and get a blog @ BayWords.

Wish you Happy Uncensored blogging!

Links:

• BayWords
  
• My weblog @ BayWords
  

Update: The total amount of free space available for media upload is 100MB. As of now, there is no option for paid upgrade of space.

How To: Improve the speed of Apple XCode

Here is the problem I faced few days ago..

Lately I have been working on a old G5 dual core Machine. Well, the project was a huge one, containing around 2k source files.

Since, I started working on this project, XCode completely lost its responsiveness. XCode was so slow that, when I typed something, it was apparently taking few seconds to show them-up on screen.

I have been working on XCode on the same machine, for few small projects and I had never faced this kind of problem.

I searched many forums and apple website/mailing list and found no solution, whatsoever.

After so much of R&D, I was able to find out the cause of this XCode problem.

Well, It was the source code indexing process, which slowed down the XCode.

and the solution for this is to turn off the code indexing feature.

I turned off the code indexing, and voila!, XCode was as fast as it was before!

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Turning off code indexing will speed up your XCode. Code indexing is a slow process, particularly when

• you have low system memory
• you have a slow processor
• you are working on a very huge project.

Only side-effect of this is that, Once you turn of code indexing, you will no longer be able to do Jump to definition(command + double click)

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To turn the indexing off, follow the following steps.

Skill level: Beginner

step1: Open Xcode
step2: Goto XCode -> Preferences ( Shortcut key: Command key + , )
step3: Goto Code sence tab
step4: Under Indexing, uncheck the check box for "Enable for all projects"

That's it!

Here are images..

Before.



After.



Only side effect of this is that, you will no longer be able to do Jump to definition(command + double click) on your source file.

Please comment, if you have any suggestions.

Command to make your monitor to go into the standby mode

Here is the command, using which you can force your computer monitor to go into the standby mode..

/usr/bin/xset -display :0.0 dpms force off

Since I have learned this command, I have stopped touching my monitor's power button.

P.S.: This commands requires ACPI enabled kernel. Also, it requires acpid to be installed in your system. In Ubuntu, these are installed by default.