Jun 302010
 

From LinuxJournal.com…

Programming with Scratch | Linux Journal: “As a homeschooling parent, I’m a big fan of educational software and I’ve written quite about about various programs in the past. But, as a programmer, I’m also a big fan of any program that makes computer programming more approachable by younger children. So, when I heard about Scratch, I was pretty enthusiastic. (Thanks, Mitch)”

 Posted by at 11:12 am
Jun 272010
 

From TechRepublic.com…

RGBA support in Ubuntu | Linux and Open Source | TechRepublic.com: “RGBA stands for Red Green Blue Alpha. When applied to the computer desktop it means a whole world more. It means full-blown transparency with the ability to control the transparency like never before. This feature was supposed to make it into Ubuntu 10.04, but because of some show-stopping issues it was pulled. It is now slated to make it into 10.10 and, judging from how well it is working now, it will do just that.”

 Posted by at 3:34 pm
Jun 142010
 

From LinuxJournal.com…

OpenOffice.org Resource Files | Linux Journal: “Most users interact with OpenOffice.org on the desktop. But what if you need to do a selective restore on the files that store custom gradients or colors? Troubleshoot why an extension won’t install? Share resources with other users? For these kinds of tasks, you need to know a bit about where OpenOffice.org stores its files, and what you can do with them.”

 Posted by at 9:57 pm
Jun 132010
 

From katharsys Blog…

katharsys Blog � Blog Archive � Latitude E6410 with Win7/MacOS/Ubuntu: “Latitude E6410 with Win7/MacOS/Ubuntu

I got a new Dell Latitude E6410 for work and of course the first thing I did was wipe it clean of the original Dell install and try to get MacOS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) installed on it.”

 Posted by at 7:00 am
Jun 102010
 

From TechRepublic.com…

Review: LuckyBackup for Linux systems | Product Spotlight | TechRepublic.com: “Backups are a crucial aspect of any PC users work. No matter if you are a home user who uses the PC for home banking or a data center administrator who depends upon backups as the go-to failsafe for petabytes of company data, without a backup you could find yourself dead in the water.”

 Posted by at 9:13 am