Turing Uncomplete

Soooo, I was bored tonight. I fiddle around with things when I get bored, but just couldn’t think of something to fiddle with. Naturally, this irritated me as I had nothing to do at all, not even homework. I have a book I am reading, but I read after going to bed, that is my [...]

Someone said to me that I really shouldn’t assume I am safe from all viruses on Linux. I decided to look into the steps you would have to follow in order to get a virus that does more than mess with the files in a users home folder. Here is what I came up with:

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Recently, someone said to me that OpenOffice.org is a nice enough program, but nowhere near as powerful as Microsoft Office. I am an average user when it comes to office software - I type and format documents. It’s not like I even use it often, I tend to stick to plain text and use Gedit. [...]

Never heard of it? I don’t blame you, it is a brand-new idea. Linux Lampost is a concept created by cyxodus of the Ubuntu Forums. It is a desktop environment in which icons can be resized, rotated, or even flipped over.
cyxodus hopes to eventually have WINE and maybe even VirtualBox support in Linux Lampost, so [...]

I finally decided to bother setting up Flash in Opera, after I found that the nice graphs Wordpress uses for stats are flash-based. Now, I had previously been using Firefox for Flash, as the latest stable version of Opera doesn’t work with Flash. However, the switching of browsers irritated me, and anyways, my whole laptop [...]

I decided to have a little fiddle around with the swappiness level of my kernel today, and am happy to report my results.
For those of you don’t know, swappiness is a number between 0 and 100 (inclusive) which controls how much stuff is stored in RAM. At a swappiness of 0, everything is stored in [...]

Hello world, I have decided to make a new blog! I just ran out of ideas for my old one and felt that trying to save it would just end up watering down the content and I would just be constantly repeating myself. So, after much intense thought (about 20 minutes or so), I had [...]