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May 22, 2008

Ati (fglrx) drivers 8.5 released (+) a workaround to delete “Ati - Testing use only” watermark

Filed under: archlinux, gnome, linux, news — gianvito @ 6:47 pm

Links:

WorkAround to (A little watermark on the right lower corner —> “Ati - Testing use only”)

Open a terminal and:

  • sudo nano /eti/ati/signature
  • delete UNSIGNED
  • copy and paste this string into /etc/ati/signature
  • Reboot

May 9, 2008

Planets by the Dozen

Filed under: news, space — gianvito @ 6:13 am

You know the planets of our solar system, each a unique world with its own distinctive appearance, size, and chemistry. Mars, with its bitter-cold, rusty red sands; Venus, a fiery world shrouded in thick clouds of sulfuric acid; sideways Uranus and its strange vertical rings. The variety is breathtaking.

scienze.nasa.gov


http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/08may_marvels.htm

April 15, 2008

New Compiz-Fusion Plugins

Filed under: archlinux, gnome, linux, news, repository, themes — gianvito @ 2:17 pm

New Compiz-Fusion Plugins

I’ve just updated compiz fusion (git) in the repo… You can install it from there adding this and then:

sudo pacman -S compiz-fusion-git

April 8, 2008

GreaseMonkey And Userscripts.org - A way to give useful tools to your Firefox

Filed under: archlinux, gnome, linux, news, themes — gianvito @ 6:07 pm

“Allows you to customize the way a webpage displays using small bits of JavaScript. Hundreds of scripts, for a wide variety of popular sites, are already available at http://userscripts.org. You can write your own scripts, too. Check out http://wiki.greasespot.net/ to get started.”

by “https://addons.mozilla.org/it/firefox/addon/748″

(click on the numbers on the right to change pages)

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April 2, 2008

Interesting “Space@Nasa” & “Space.com” links

Filed under: news, space — gianvito @ 9:32 pm

When scientists peer at distant galaxies, it’s like looking back in time because their light has taken so long to reach us.

by “http://www.space.com”

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Update 8/04/2008

  • Added some links

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March 22, 2008

Hubble Space Telescope - A look to the UNIVERSE

Filed under: news, space — gianvito @ 1:32 am

Edwin Powell Hubble (November 20, 1889September 28, 1953) was an American astronomer. He profoundly changed astronomers’ understanding of the nature of the universe by demonstrating the existence of other galaxies besides the Milky Way. He also discovered that the degree of redshift observed in light coming from a galaxy increased in proportion to the distance of that galaxy from the Milky Way. This became known as Hubble’s law, and would help establish that the universe is expanding.”

From WikiPedia

 

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Thanks to the Telescope which has his name… we can give a look to things which will never be seen without it.

Links:

March 13, 2008

Gnome 2.22 Released

Filed under: apple, archlinux, gnome, linux, news, repository, space, themes — gianvito @ 11:38 am

gnome222.png

Let’s see how to install it on ArchLinux…

Update 10/04/2008

  • Gnome 2.22 in [extra]
  • Gnome 2.22.1 released

(click on the numbers on the right to change pages)

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March 7, 2008

Celestia - The Planetarium

Filed under: archlinux, gnome, linux, news, space — gianvito @ 6:39 pm

The Space… An infinite universe where I think we aren’t lonely… but we have to do great steps to know if there is intelligent life in the other galaxies.

m31_andromeda_galaxy1.jpg

Today we’ll talking about a great software written by Chris Laurel.

CELESTIA

(click on the numbers on the right to change pages) (more…)

March 5, 2008

An Overview on Linux, Windows & Mac (Italian)

Filed under: apple, linux, news — gianvito @ 5:17 pm

linux-mac-windows2.jpg

Here is the link of the article (from www.tomshw.it):

Tomshw

    February 23, 2008

    Firefox 3… Latest Beta & Nightly builds

    Filed under: archlinux, gnome, linux, news, themes — gianvito @ 11:27 pm

    Firefox 3 will be a great release… especially for one thing all linux users want… OS INTEGRATION

    firefox.jpg

    This doesn’t want to be a minimization of what firefox changed inside (and surely will change)… But at a first look… it seems that we (linux users) won’t have to use workarounds to get our favourite browser more pleasant to see.

    Update 02/04/2008

    • Added Firefox 3 with system cairo

    (click on the numbers on the right to change pages)

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