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Make Digg stack/swarm your background in Ubuntu

2006-07-30T17:09:00.000-07:00

This isn't perfect, but it works. It will give you the same affect as the windows background version when you are done. Enjoy.

Step one (skip if you have wine installed or see below if you have amd64)

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type in

sudo apt-get install wine

Step two (skip if you have a windows binary of firefox)

Type

wget http://www.mozilla.com/products/download.html?product=firefox-1.5.0.5&os=win&lang=en-US

Step two

Double click the file you just got, it should be in your home directory. It will be named something like firefox1.5setup or something along those lines. Go through the install steps in the windows version. After you have done that come back to this page with the wine version of your browser

Step three

welcome back. Click here to install the full screen xpi firefox plugin

Or download it from extensions firefox website.

Next click here and download flash 9 for windows.

Make sure before you run it you close your wine version of firefox.

Step Four

Open the wine version of firefox which should be located in something like "C/program files/" in your home folder, or do a search for firefox.exe in beagle or something lik e it.

Go to this page with it. And click on what you want as your background

Below

http://labs.digg.com/stack/main.swf

http://labs.digg.com/swarm/main.swf

Step Five

Hit f11

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Why does this work?

You should have your window go behind the top and bottom bars with out affecting them or their position. You should beable to go about using your computer with that running in the background. Since it runs in wine, it won't actually takeover your desktop just run behind it.

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What do I do if I have amd64?

Check out this install script

Downloading big files (legally) is so 2005

2006-07-29T17:42:00.000-07:00

Using the Internet to download files has been a practical application since the time that it came out. Back in the day it was pretty cool to download music, movies, and games. But now, to be honest it's not that cool anymore. Why would I pay Itunes to give me an aac file that looses quality from the original for about 99 cents when I can go triad cds on lala for a buck. Does it really make sense to try to download a drmed movie now days? Why would you want that? You can't watch it on your big screen with out buying and adapter and basically moving your laptop or doing something else complicated. How about this, rent movies from netflix and get the original disks and watch it however you want. So now instead of downloading from ituens and haven't to use their program you can use it on per say, Linux. Because you have the original cd or dvd. Steam makes it easy to purchase games on line but of course for usually around the same price you can go to the store nearest you and pick up the game with the manule and pretty pictures on the box. That would be something I would totally switch from disks to downloads but right now there isn't that big of a selection. Just valve games.

Now days it's not as practical to do those applications as it was. Besides, I was watching a tv commercial for "high speed Internet" and they said "download movies and games at lightning speed." Things that used to be what you used it for with out the company endorsing it. It's all become so mainstream now. Comcast seems to thing that "the fan" on their website is the wave of the future.

Make songbird the perfect browser with adblock

2006-07-20T12:08:00.000-07:00

I have modified the Adblock plus extending to work in songbird. I heard on a form someone asking the developers to do it but they didn't seem interested so I did it myself. You can download the xpi file below. This will work in the recent release of songbird, the development version doesn't accept my plugin for some reason. If there is a demand I will make plugins for the development version as well. Also, if people want I will modify other plugins to work with songbird as well. Tell me what you want and the ones with the most votes will win.

Note: I currently don't have anywhere to host my file that is any good. If anyone is interested in hosting, or just wants a copy they can email me at antigenic@gmail.com. I will see if I can get it on bit torrent. It is a small file, need help distributing it though, I'm just a coder not a distribution guy.

They want us to go away, When Linux goes wrong.

2006-07-19T17:50:00.000-07:00

Linux users not responsive to problem that is a compleat flaw with the system itself.

Linux help in the community has usually been alright. Unless, you find a serious flaw with the distrobution or maybe even the Kernel itself. Then, you are disregarded as a lunatic.

Some information. I have a avertec 2100 laptop. It has an amd turion.

In short, when you go to the network and hit properties for the wireless card the entire system stops working. Also, anytime you try to access it causes the system to crash. NO THIS CAN NOT BE FIXED. I have been told to switch to a i386 kernel and then they system may not crash the way it does. Think it's just me?
Think again.

Multiple sources will be available under this post.

WAIT before you stop reading you have to understand that this is not anything like you may have heard. I finally explained it to someone how this works and he told me I needed to file a bug report and that they would need to check it out that way. There is no way to make it work correctly on the amd64 kernal. But here is the twist, I asked for someone to please refer me to a card that works correctly. They told me to buy the same card that I had. Who is they? over 20 people located on the #linux chanel on frenode. Note, there were over 200 people there to check what they said. Ubuntu form people just had no idea what I was talking about.

This is not exclusive. I can prove that the entire 64 bit kernel is flawed in this same way under the official supported packages. If you want I'll refer you to a few people that been shown either no support, or totally baffled others.

Why haven't I submitted a bug report you ask? Because, I have been abused by the Linux community the very same people that I have supported for free so much on Irc and many other channels. The real reason is, does it matter that some people have unsolvable problems? Do they care to fix their product. To me, they disregarded everything I had to say as a small problem.

I hope so, but after what I went through I'm not holding my breath.

Sources:
http://www.averatecforums.com/archive/index.php/t-3568.html

http://61.222.76.235/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=2322

http://61.222.76.235/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=2296

Irc, don't have the chat logs unfortunatly

Myself, I have worked on this for days and hours and searched, as I said they just ignore us or say somthing that doesn't work.