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The smokin’ hot penguin

Posted on January 20, 2009 by Samuel Tilly

I find my self looking at screenshots of different Linux setups on the ArchLinux forum every now and then. This leaves me sad because i can never get Windows Vista too look so great and be so comfortable as i would like it. But people sometimes points out to me that Linux is messy and doesn’t look good compared to a Mac or Windows OS. People that claims this are terribly wrong and to prove this I’ll post some of my favorites desktops i found, mostly from ArchLinux forum. This one by kremso is very powerful and tidy, he gives us an guide on how he made it so that others can do it as well.

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ArchLinux Floppy & USB Linux Installation

Posted on January 14, 2009 by Samuel Tilly

I belive there is a simpler solution to this problem now called Plop Boot Manager witch simply allow you to boot from USB.

So i spent some time yesterday on trying to install my favorite Linux distribution ArchLinux to my very, very old laptop. Mostly as an experiment and to be used very lightly with awesome and terminal based software. This proved to be harder than i had expected.

This old computer doesn’t have anything other than one USB port and a floppy drive and it is not able to boot up from a USB stick. At first i tried to just install grub to a floppy and try to boot up the USB stick directly from grub but i was unsuccessful in that attempt and instead i went with the hard drive installation solution. I downloaded a rescue Linux namely BG-Rescue Linux. After i downloaded the .img files i just put them on two separate floppies like this:

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The power of colorlovers

Posted on January 13, 2009 by Samuel Tilly

So i promised a new design and I’ve done a bunch of sketches and trying to figure out how the site should look like, so far i got like 4 different styles but i think that i have found an interesting color pallet that i am working on right now, might not be the one i am settling for but at least let me tell you guys about this awesome site that i just found. www.colourlovers.com, it’s a site for people that love colors and wants to share some neat pallets and ideas, it’s a great tool for designers.

Go check it out, here is the pallet that im currently working with…

Another great tool to find complementary colors is to use adobes kuler, check it out!

Shirt for coders

Posted on January 4, 2009 by Samuel Tilly

shirtforcoders A real geek doesn’t go without having at least a couple of shirts in the closet with extremely nerdy sentences like “Can’t get it out of my <head>!”.

For the webdesigner nerd that is without such a shirt, he or she can find some good quality shirts at www.shirtsforcoders.com.

Asus Eee Box B204

Posted on December 10, 2008 by Samuel Tilly

I can hardly wait until i could get my hands on one of theese beauties! would be absolutly wounderfull to use something like this along with a light linux OS and mediacenter software like xbmc or boxee. Ofcourse there is allready one Eee Box B202 available but the problem is that it doesnt suport 1080p and lots of people have had various problems with the DVI output not suporting there resolutions but for the new B204 and B206 there will be HDMI output and ATI chipset wich will probably make 1080p playable and give overall better performance.