If you ever believed a politician it is very probable that you were fooled. Check out this video and see how they lie and twist the answers so that they don’t appear to be lying. When you see it next time you will know how to recognize it. Great video.

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Did some of last linux distro leave you with a sour taste in your mouth? Answer to all your linux troubles is Linux Mint!

Ha, ha… like some ‘50 US commercial.
But really, Linux Mint is a great distribution for new linux users as for veterans, too. Essentially it is the updated Ubuntu 6.10 but with added bonus – video and audio codecs are included plus great wireless support and some apps that Ubuntu doesn’t run out of the box. There are some issues regarding distribution of codecs if you are in the US. We in Europe don’t have such restrictions so feel free to distribute it, even if you are in US it is not illegal to give Linux Mint to your friends.

I will make a review of it as soon as it downloads. For the time being, see the official release notes:

Linux Mint 2.1 – A new stable version of Linux Mint has been released: “Linux Mint 2.1, code name “Bea”, is out and available for download.” Here is a brief list of some of the changes since version 2.0: “OpenOffice 2.1; mintDesktop, which adds a lot of desktop improvements; quick access to the computer, home places and terminal; ability to delete files directly without sending them to the trash; mintDesktop home folders; Beagle search; Tomboy notes; network manager; mintWifi, the purpose of which is to configure a wireless card without an Internet connection; tutorials to install and configure WiFi cards; a collection of WiFi drivers to support about 40 different wireless card models; RealPlayer was replaced with MPlayer plugins with support for Quicktime, AVI, MPG and a lot of other web content; Flash plugin was upgraded to version 9 Beta 2….” Read the detailed release announcement for further information. Download (MD5): LinuxMint-2.1.iso (695MB).

There are hundreds of gift guides this holiday season filled with junk you can buy – but a lot of time you actually don’t own it, you can’t improve upon it, you can’t share it or make it better, you certainly can’t post the plans, schematics and source code either. Here’s the only open source gift guide you see this year and it’s from MAKE Magazine

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Nije mi jasno zašto niti jedna “user friendly” distribucija nema samba mount alat. Zar je to toliko teško? Ok, KDE i Gnome imaju browsere za samba share, ali to često ne radi kako treba. Ako se bilo koja datoteka želi pogledati, ona se prvo presnimi u lokalni temp, pa se tek onda pokrene preglednik. Ako su to neki veći fileovi, onda postaje presporo.
Jedino rješenje je da se mountaju samba share diskovi te da im se direktno pristupa kao lokanom disku.
Jednostavo se u /etc/fstab dodaju nove linije i stvar je riješena;

//10.0.3.1/lain /lain cifs username=samba_username,\
password=samba_password,uid=local_user,gid=local_group 0 0

I have been fed up with windows for a long time ago, so I moved to linux. But one thing from windows haunts me still, and that is the “windows key”. In most linux distribution if you press it nothing happens, which is a waste of keyboard space. So why not make it work?

Some new distributions like Sabayon Linux make it work with a little hack; they add a command to kde startup folder that does this:

xmodmap -e ‘keycode 115=Menu’

Elegant and simple.

I found a few other online tips, so you can also try one of these commands:

xmodmap -e ‘keycode 115 = Super_L’
xmodmap -e ‘keycode 116 = Super_R’

or

xmodmap -e ‘keycode 115 = EuroSign cent’

Cherry is the only company which makes linux keyboards. Check them out at these links: link 1 and  link 2.
You can even buy online one of these keyboards for 22 pounds, this is the lowest price I found online.

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While I was browsing through Harald Welte’s blog I came across this article. You can’t believe what else is in his blog (non pr0n related) – so check it out, really great blog. I really liked Geek_Pr0n gallery because the pictures are professionally done and really, really geeky! Girls on pictures are also nice :)

Check out the full galleries:
Geek_Pr0n_01
Geek_Pr0n_02
Geek_Pr0n_03

Here are some of my favorites:

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When you need something to start and you want to control it manually you usually put it in one file that starts every time the system boots.
I call that file linux autoexec.bat because different systems place that file on different locations and name it differently.

So here is the list od linux autoexec.bat files (it will be updated):

• fedora – /etc/rc.local
• suse – /etc/init.d/boot.local

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I really love anonymity even for casual daily browsing, so here is a little howto setup TOR on fedora core 6 machine. I will try to update this howto for Ubuntu because I have it running on my home machine.

yum install tor privoxy

Then edit  /etc/privoxy/config
and add the following line:

forward-socks4a / localhost:9050 .

Mind the dot at the end of the line, don’t drop it, it has to be there.

Just start both services

/etc/init/tor start
/etc/init/privoxy start

Now download Firefox extension Torbutton and enjoy.

If you have some problems check out the documentation, but I have firewall and adsl modem and everything worked out without any problems.

That’s it.

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Naišao sam na ove definicije za BSD distribucije: FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD… cijela paleta BSD-ova koja me često zbunjuje. Ove se definicije čine kao zanimljive i vrlo koncizne. Sada kada malo bolje razumijem obilježja pojedine BSD distribucije moguće je i da koju isprobam.

• FreeBSD The most powerful x86 open
  source Unix
• OpenBSD The most secure open source
  Unix available
• NetBSD The most portable
  open source Unix available
• Linux The most popular open source Unix

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