My new keyboard is here…DasKeyboard
If you have never used one of the old IBM M mechanical keyboards, I’m a sorry you never were able to experience the magic of typing on one. I have been replacing my keyboards for years with non-mechanical keyboards until now. I finally decided to spring for the DasKeyboard Professional S. This keyboard is a [...]
Guake the Best New Terminal?
As a Linux user I always seem to be doing something in the terminal while working on other stuff. The normal terminal that comes with most distributions is useful and works really well, however it is often distracting and another window to manage. One of the newest terminal’s I have decided to install on all [...]
NetBeans and Eclipse Setup for Ubuntu 12.04 Unity
As a developer I like to have my IDE all setup and ready to go right after install. I am currently using NetBeans 7.1.2 as my preferred ide and I also occasionally use Intellij. As some of you know I am not a big fan of eclipse and just prefer NetBeans and Intellij. One of [...]
Linux Maven Install
Here is a super simple how to on installing maven in linux. Download the Maven 3.0.4 binary from apache. Then run the following commands. $ tar -zxf apache-maven-3.0.4-bin.tar.gz $ sudo cp -R apache-maven-3.0.4 /usr/local $ sudo ln -s /usr/local/apache-maven-3.0.4/bin/mvn /usr/bin/mvn
Shinedown – Amaryllis
The new Shinedown album released a few days ago and I have now had a chance to listen to it. So far I am enjoying the more hard rock style songs, there are some songs in there that sound very corporate rock that will hit the top 40 stations at some point. All in all, [...]
Halestorm – The Strange Case Of….
Halestorm is coming out with a new album on April 10th. They have been streaming it online recently and I have to say it is awesome. If you like hard rock with some good melodies this is this release is for you. You can check it out already online with a full version http://new.livestream.com/halestormrocks/albumpremiere now. [...]
Google Project Glass (Video)
If you have ever wondered what the future of the smartphone is?… Well google is giving us a preview of what that might look like with project glass. Project glass is an argumented reality project which demonstrates how a heads-up display can be used to replace the our smart-phones with a voice controlled device. Check [...]
Linux Promotion Commercial (Video)
Check out the latest video from the Linux Foundation on why Linux is the operating system of choice. Read the full story to watch the video.
Oracle JDK Setup Linux How-To
By default only the open-jdk is available in the repositories for Ubuntu based distributions to install the Oracle JDK follow the below instructions. Download the 32bit or 64bit Linux “compressed binary file” and uncompress it: tar -xvf jdk-7u2-linux-x64.tar.gz Now move the JDK 7 directory to /usr/lib sudo mv ./jdk1.7.0_02 /usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0 Now run: sudo update-alternatives –install [...]
Linux (Ubuntu and Linux Mint) Chrome Install
There seems to be an issue with doing a chrome install from google’s website to fix the install issue do the following: Download Google Chrome from https://www.google.com/chrome/ Open up a terminal and do the following: sudo dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb After installing, it will show a broken package and chrome won’t be installed, to fix run [...]
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