Turing Uncomplete

In my frequent excursions across the Arch wiki, I found a command to recursively remove all orphaned dependancies on your system. I loved this command so much I made an alias for it in my .bashrc and when I ran it… Guess what? I had about 50MB of orphaned dependancies installed - not any more!
This [...]

Well, "pretty good" is a bit of an understatement, it is amazing! Torrents that have taken weeks to get to 50% in other BitTorrent clients finished in an hour or so in Deluge, and entire torrents are downloading in a matter of hours, not days and weeks. The speed increase is amazing compared to what [...]

I have just finished compiling the list of OS’s I want to try at some point. When I get a new laptop I’ll try a few of these and stick with each for a few days at least - however I don’t expect to stick to any of them because I just really like Arch.
I’m [...]

“Hello, world!” is the standard sanity check for programming. It checks that the user is competent, and that the compiler/interpreter is working properly. It is traditional, and has been in use for a very long time, however, it is also boring. If you look in any programming textbook, it will start you off with “Hello, [...]

I have often wondered why people say that Linux terminal commands are unintuitive. Let us look at the following commands, and I shall explain where their names come from:

ls = list
cd = change directory
sudo = super user do
pwd = print working directory
chmod = change mode
chown = change owner
And so on, and so forth.

As you can [...]

Last night I installed a kernel update and, well, performance has not been optimal, let’s just put it like that. I have had quite a few program crashes, and the computer seems to be using a bit more RAM. Also, the upgrade broke my installation of the opensource ATI driver - I have had to [...]

I had the wonderful idea of cleaning out my laptop earlier. I look it to bits and cleaned it. It is amazing how much dust was inside! After seeing it all I am amazed it didn’t overheat faster that it already did. The fan couldn’t actually move for thick dust between it and the processor’s [...]

I have been fiddling with my laptop recently and have just set up two must-have programs for minimal users, dzen and dmenu. dzen is a status bar that displays whatever is sent to it on standard input, so it is a useful output for monitoring programs. dmenu displays a simple menu that accepts a list [...]

Battery life. My laptop’s battery is fairly old and worn down, it has a maximum capacity of 25%, and so any way to increase its life is a chance to be siezed. On Windows the battery lasted roughly 10 minutes, a bit less. I have just been running my laptop without external power for about [...]

Please, someone send the men in white coats to lock me up. I installed Emacs, despite all warnings about my sanity. When I installed it, there was a noise - as if a thousand braincells cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. Despite my fading sanity (C-x C-s to save a file? Who thought [...]