If you’re into any type of 3D development in Linux be sure to give Arch a try with your 3D tools. The i686 compiled binaries offered up by Arch Linux gave me a little more of an edge, especially when it came to developing models in Blender and running them in the Irrlicht 3D engine. [...]

Last week I finally decided to try another Linux distribution. Even though I started off with Slackware on floppy disks I eventually got really lazy and started to use Ubuntu Linux. I remember those days when I was helping out with the KDE project on the first KDE Beta release. What I remember is my [...]

Installing the new Gnome Shell is fairly easy. If you are using Ubuntu you simply install Gnome Shell from your synaptic package manager and run it from the command line. If Gnome Shell doesn’t show up in your package manager make sure you are using the Community-maintained repository along with the Canonical repository. After you [...]

In this tutorial I will hopefully teach you how to configure and build a custom kernel. We’ll be using the unmodified generic Linux source code available here. Many Linux distributions sometimes add custom code to their kernel but for this example we’ll be using a pure Linux kernel. Creating a custom kernel can not only [...]

TXZ compression seems to be starting to take off in the Linux community. Slackware 13.0 is a Linux distribution that is  activley using XZ compression. Slackware used to use gzip and the .tgz extension was used. Now that XZ compression is used the new Slackware packages use the .txz extension. In order to uncompress .TXZ [...]

DIRUSE
Display disk usage

Syntax
DIRUSE [options] Folders…
Options
/M Display in Mb
/K Display in Kb
/B Display in bytes (default)
/, Use thousand separator when displaying sizes.
/Q:# Quota limit, mark folders that exceed the [...]

Adding a simple ListBox widget in your GTK application is easier than you think. This tutorial will show you how to create ListBox-like functionality in GTK using Glade3. GTK uses the TreeView control as their do-all list control. You can create simple lists, tree-like lists and all sorts of various list views. What is really [...]

Today I whipped up a simple GTK application using the Anjuta IDE, Glade 3, and the new GtkBuilder system. As some of you know, Glade 3 and GTK changed things up. First Glade stopped using generated code which required you to use libglade. Now the GTK developers created their own interface interpretor called GtkBuilder. [...]

This code will show you how to search for Windows Services. The ServiceController class handles almost everything service related. You can also check if services are running by checking the service.Status property and you can search for installed services using the sample code below. The services we are talking about are the services that run [...]

Visual Basic for Linux is here, sort of. In my search for the perfect RAD environment for Linux I came across a project called Gambas. Gambas is a Visual Basic like development environment for Linux which is very much like Microsoft’s drag and drop Visual Basic but it is not a clone. For an Open [...]

This code snippet will let you force a background color into a PNG file with C#. When working with PNG files in Visual Studio sometimes you’ll run into situations where the background of a PNG shows up as grey or even blue. This is because of the PNG files transparency and Windows can sometimes [...]

The following code shows you how to build a UDP server in C# using the UUdpClient class for the networking and BackgroundWorker class for reporting data back to the application. This particular UDP server class is designed to be used with a Windows Forms or GUI. When using the UDP server you pass a BackgroundWorker [...]

Apparently there is a new zero-day flaw that affects Windows XP and 2000 computers utilizing VBScript. An attacker can trick someone into visiting a website that binds the F1 key to a VBScript event which ultimately installs malicious code on your machine. Microsoft’s fix: Don’t press the F1 key when windows pop up. LOL. Ok [...]

Has Verizon been hacked? Google Chrome seems to think so. Just a few minutes ago I tried to log into Verizon to see why my phone isn’t making any calls and to also see why I can’t make any text messages. I’m going to have to probably assume they haven’t been hacked, but how does [...]

Here is a short video which shows you what the melee game play is like in Fallen Earth. It’s basically a slashing style game play with no special moves or anything. There are some animations with some of the buffs but nothing as far as your physical movement.

Last December I picked up (downloaded) a copy of Fallen Earth as I was on the lookout for a new MMORPG game to get into. Fallen Earth’s end world theme seemed to be a good choice for me as I like the “mad-max” time period. After a few days of playing I quit, thinking it [...]