Well it’s good to know that updates bring change.
Many times change brings about a better way of doing things. Other times it may bring change to old familiar ways and we may not like them. Take the moving of the Gnome window buttons for minimize, maximize, and close.
The latest version of Ubuntu decided to move these buttons to the left side of the window. This isn’t so strange. Many OS’s over the years have had the close button on the top left, but rarely the other buttons. I understand that Microsoft Windows has set the position on the right and when I adopted Windows as a OS I quickly became quite familiar with this method and today, take for granted their position since both KDE and Gnome Desktops for Linux did the same thing. However as of Ubuntu 10.04 it’s now on the left.
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Something I heard about last week but haven’t had time to put up here is the “God Mode” feature. If you want to have a common area to access all your settings features, rather than navigate in the normal Control Panel method you may find this mode to be a bit of a time saver.
To enable simply Create a New Folder and name it this:
GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
That will change the folder icon to a Control Panel icon and will then give you direct access to all the features in a simple list format. If you prefer having the short explainations they will be missing.
So far no comments from Microsoft about this. Enjoy.
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bsdtalk 182 – FreeNAS
This is a audio blog about FreeNAS changing From bsdtalk, a popular site.
Well it appears they were not really screensavers or themes after all. Instead they were DDoS related Malware.
The Gnome ‘waterfall’ Screensaver http://jamesfriesen.net/762
The Ninja Black Theme article http://jamesfriesen.net/f6q
A quick fix for these can be found on http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1349801 and the gory details are http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1349678
This command below should remove the offending scripts for an infected machine. DO NOT run this unless you know you are infected.
sudo rm -f /usr/bin/Auto.bash /usr/bin/run.bash /etc/profile.d/gnome.sh index.php run.bash && sudo dpkg -r app5552
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Well its an interesting story but not one that has been a true surprise. I found it interesting since there is so much controversy over the Apple App Store that this seems to be a catch-22 for Apple. What Do I mean? Let me outline.
- Continue reading 'Apple Boots Molinker For Gaming Apps Store Rating System'»
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