Forrest Sheng Bao's Cyberhome

by Forrest Sheng Bao http://fsbao.net

I am really tired of the stupid Skype, though Skype has many users around the world - people are stupid. The problem of Skype to me is

1. No native 64-bit support for Linux and I need hacking to make 32-bit Skype like my webcam in 64-bit Linux - We have been waiting for this for at least 2 years.
2. Closed source code and protocol
3. Unknown mechanism on managing our privacy - because of problem #2
4. Not friendly with some hardware on Linux - I am tried of struggling on this

According to my experience, open source solution can work better than proprietary solution if the developers themselves need this solution very much. So it is. Geeks need to talk and video each other. Then here comes the Ekiga! http://ekiga.org

by Forrest Sheng Bao http://fsbao.net

Python is my favorite programming language. There are many Python editors, debuggers and IDEs. Some good editors/IDE are geditor(comes with Gnome desktop by default), SPE (Stani's Python Editor) and Eric. There is a debugger with GUI called Winpdb. The default debugger is IDLE, developed by Python Software Foundation.

by Forrest Sheng Bao http://fsbao.net

You know the movie Ironman, right? You think it's cool, right? But do you know which OS supports those cool stuffs? The answer is our Linux!

I checked out a DVD from my university library and watched a short video about how those visual effects were made. Then I found the desktop environment they used are just Gnome, a famous desktop environment on Linux.

Here are 3 snapshots.

by Forrest Sheng Bao http://fsbao.net

Rsync is a great tool to synchronize files on different computers, even locally. Suppose you have many copies of your files, on your laptop, your backup server, your mobile hard drive. It will be crazy to delete the copy on each of them and copy + paste all new files to them. You just need one single command to do this via rsync. Rsync provide an incremental backup choice, which means rsync only copies the modified/deleted/new files. Thus, not all files are transferred.

by Forrest Sheng Bao http://fsbao.net

I went to BestBuy store (BestBuy is the largest consumer electronics and computer retailer in US and Canada) today. I heard Ubuntu Linux installation CD with technical support subscription is sold in BestBuy. So I checked with the operating system shelf. Next by dozens of boxes of Windows XP/Vista, was the Ubuntu disks.

Make is a great tool on Linux and Mac. I have never used it on Windows, coz I seldom use Windows, maybe once per two weeks. Windows sucks, flat suck, especially Windows Vista.

by Forrest Sheng Bao http://fsbao.net

Today, yes, Sept. 20, is the Free Software Day!

So, I wanna give you a joke as the gift.

What is the No. 1 bug of Ubuntu, the most popular Linux distribution?

You may say, my wireless card doesn't have open source driver, or my multimedia key can't work out-of-the-box.

But, you are wrong. The No. 1 bug of Ubuntu Linux is: Microsoft has a majority market share.

I am kidding? No, I am serious. If you don't believe me, then go to launchpad.net and see what's the top 1 bug of Ubuntu.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1

by Forrest Sheng Bao http://fsbao.net

Few months ago, I made a video.

Many friends asked me how I made it. Now here it is. This is a very brief one and I will enrich it later.

by Forrest Sheng Bao http://fsbao.net

In this article, Linux could be: 1) an operating system kernel, which is not used by a common user 2) a general name for many Linux-based computing environment, a.k.a., distributions, i.e. Ubuntu, openSuSE.

by Forrest Sheng Bao http://fsbao.net

If you insist to use PEAP procotol to connect to TTU Wi-Fi, you can refer to this http://narnia.cs.ttu.edu/drupal/node/147

Connecting to Texas Tech Wi-Fi is very easy on Linux now. Tested on Ubuntu 9.04.

Just click the NetworkManager icon on the top right corner of your desktop, as shown below. Choose "TTUnet."

The NetworkManager may as you for passphrase which is used to protect the Wifi authentication information. As follows, choose the security option as "LEAP" and just input your eRaider username and password. Click "Connect" and you are done.