Hackety Hack

I forgot about this neat ruby learning program. Perfect for teaching, kids and beginners with fun orientated graphics and layout.

Its cross platform. Have fun.
hackety.com

CrunchBang, my favourite debian derivative

Lightweight and sexy, this distribution packs a punch of functionality meets speed.
crunchbanglinux.org

Bored stiff Sunday: Get started with Arduino

Arduino is an open-source microcontroller with its own programming language. Instructables for inspiration ;) http://www.instructables.com/id/Arduino-Projects/?download=ebook

Live Park, Korea

'Live Park' is the world's first interactive 4D avatar theme park. 'Live Park' enables visitors to experience a virtual world previously only seen in movies like 'Minority Report' and 'Avatar'. Mixed reality architecture allows the visitor to create an avatar and become the main character in a unique adventure.

Bored stiff Sunday: Get Programming, Motherf#cker

programming-motherfucker.com

Hands-On With the Only Raspberry Pi Left in London

It might have sold out everywhere within seconds, but the guys from Element14were kind enough to come by and show us the only slice of Raspberry Pi left in London, to sample what everyone else will have to wait another month for.
gizmodo.co.uk/2012/03/hands-on-with-the-only-raspberry-pi-left-in-london/

LulzSec leader Sabu was working for us, says FBI

Hacking group leader, identified as Hector Xavier Monsegur, revealed as FBI mole as five other alleged LulzSec members arrested.

guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/mar/06/lulzsec-sabu-working-for-us-fbi?

C Programming Tutorial 1 Learn C Programming: Game Programming

More or less a beginners tutorial series.

Bored stiff Sunday: Install Bisigi Themes Under Ubuntu

Since there is no support currently for Bisigi themes under Ubuntu 11.10/12.04, we will use the Natty repository to be able to install these various themes. Open the terminal and run the following commands to install Bisigi themes under Ubuntu 11.10/12.04 

www.upubuntu.com/2012/03/how-to-install-bisigi-themes-under.html

Spark linux tablet

This bad boy is powered with a A9 processor and KDE's Plasma Active. 

• 7 inch multi-touch capacitive screen (800x480)
• 1 GHz ARM Cortex A9 processor with Mali 400 GPU
• 512 MB DDR2 RAM
• 4 GB Nand Flash Disk
• Wireless Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g (3G via USB External)
• 1.3 MP built-in front facing camera
• HDMI 1080P Output
• 2 USB ports
• MicroSD slot
• 3.5 mm audio jack
• Hardware volume and power buttons
• 4 dimensional Gsensor
• Battery: 3000mAH @ 7.4v
• Weight: 355 grams

makeplaylive.com

Five Things You Can Do With the New Raspberry Pi

The Raspberry Pi is here at last —now what can you do with it? Here is our pick of the project ideas that you can try with your Pi.
Note that not all of these are going to work straight of the bat. The Raspberry Pi is brand new and will require some fiddling to get working properly. Give it a week or so however, and we reckon there will be several pre-packaged installers available for you to use if you lack the skills or time to try these yourself.

http://gizmodo.com/5889245/five-things-you-can-do-with-the-new-raspberry-pi

Linus Torvalds rants at openSUSE

Even the great man himself finds it hard to find the right distro.

So here's a plea: if you have anything to do with security in a distro, and think that my kids (replace "my kids" with "sales people on the road" if you think your main customers are businesses) need to have the root password to access some wireless network, or to be able to print out a paper, or to change the date-and-time settings, please just kill yourself now.

https://plus.google.com/102150693225130002912/posts/1vyfmNCYpi5

Raspberry Pi launched

A credit-card sized computer designed to help teach children to code goes on general sale for the first time today.
The Raspberry Pi is a bare-bones, low-cost computer created by volunteers mostly drawn from academia and the UK tech industry.
Sold uncased without keyboard or monitor, the Pi has drawn interest from educators and enthusiasts.
Supporters hope the machines could help reverse a lack of programming skills in the UK.

bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17190918

Raspberry PI released tomorrow

I'm looking forward to this little ARM device http://www.raspberrypi.org/.

A fedora port is coming along too.

Get Rid of Annoying Facebook Notifications

Do you constantly have 99 new notifications, marked with the little red button at the bottom right in your Facebook account? Would you like to only receive important notifications, such as comments from friends, and skip the stuff various applications send you? Read on.

This isn’t a new feature, but I’m always amazed at how many people simply endure thousands of notifications and updates from applications and pages, without ever bothering to simply turn them off. Here’s a couple of ways to do it.

mashable.com/2009/08/19/get-rid-facebook-notifications/

Unleash The Power of the Find Command

Unleash The Power of the Find Command

Introducing the Google Chrome OS

It's been an exciting nine months since we launched the Google Chrome browser. Already, over 30 million people use it regularly. We designed Google Chrome for people who live on the web — searching for information, checking email, catching up on the news, shopping or just staying in touch with friends. However, the operating systems that browsers run on were designed in an era where there was no web. So today, we're announcing a new project that's a natural extension of Google Chrome — the Google Chrome Operating System. It's our attempt to re-think what operating systems should be.Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. Because we're already talking to partners about the project, and we'll soon be working with the open source community, we wanted to share our vision now so everyone understands what we are trying to achieve.

Official Google Blog: Introducing the Google Chrome OS

SourceForge delivers 4 billionth open source download

SourceForge.net, the big open source app/code repository has hit a major milestone: 4 billion downloads.Since 1999, SourceForge has the 'go to place' for all open source downloads, but in the last couple of years, Google Code has put up a bit of challenge. Remember also for a while there was this constant thread in media about how SourceForge had 100,000 project, though most had been abandoned. SourceForge.net now has 230,000 projects and if downloads are an indication, they seem to be doing just fine.

SourceForge delivers 4 billionth open source download - InternetNews:The Blog - Sean Michael Kerner

Customize Your Linux Desktop From GTK to Compiz

The days of ugly Linux desktops are a thing of the past. Modern distros include many tools and options that enable them to look good and be more useful.Unlike Windows, Linux has several different widget toolkits. The most well-known widget engines are GTK+, (distributed with GNOME) and QT. (pronounced “cute”) Widgets are the various elements which make up a program's GUI: scrollbars, arrows, checkboxes, etc. However, take note that QT or GTK widgets are not the same thing as desktop widgets.

How to Customize Your Linux Desktop - From GTK to Compiz | Maximum PC

Compiz Fusion Tutorial - Howto Increase Desktop Functionality with Ubuntu