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The Future

Guys on FOSS ·

2011/08/31

Wow, it's happened again. There has been no posts for a great deal of time. Sorry.This month marks the 2 year anniversary of the creation of GuysOnFOSS. We've done quite a bit in the two years including reviews, podcasts, rants, etc. I, for one, have enjoyed the process immensely. I'd like to take a moment to talk about the future. The next year I expect will be hectic, as the majority of the writers are moving onward and upward. In September, most of us will be entering university. There may be

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An Introduction to Threading and Multi-core Processors

Guys on FOSS ·

2011/05/14

An Introduction to Threading and Multi-core ProcessorsWith the increasing popularity of multi-core processors, most people imagine that all their programs will run much faster. While this is true, it is not always the case. Sure, the operating system boots up faster, but what about Firefox, or Blender? Some people have noticed they just stay the same speed. So why do these programs run so slowly on such a “fast” processor?The answer to this question lies in threads. So what is a thread? One can

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Beginning to code

Guys on FOSS ·

2011/05/04

Are all your friends are programming making you feel left out? Do you think that all those things that you use online can be made better? Have you ever complained that a game could be so much better if they just changed that level? Fear not! The power of programming will solve all those problems! Or will they?Many of the representations of coding scare or fool many non-programmers. Being a programmer myself, it is easy for me to say that scenes of sitting in front of a terminal with flowing text

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Vim vi vim

Guys on FOSS ·

2011/04/24

Text editing is a common task many Linux users do day to day. Gedit, Kate, Kwrite - they are all programs which assist us in changing configuration files, or just taking notes. While today’s systems orient around newfangled graphical interfaces with mouse support, fancy sounds, and (not so) nice assistants, some have forgotten about the good old editors which were one of the foundations of the Linux OS. Before the GUI, text editors existed on the command line. Now, newer Linux users who have seldom

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LaTeX Part 1 - History

Guys on FOSS ·

2011/02/25

Throughout history there have been people who identify a problem, and instead of idly accepting the situation, they produce a solution. These are people like Henry Ford who noticed the inefficiency of automobile production and invented the assembly line, a standard in modern manufacturing. Or perhaps we consider Bette Nesmith Graham, painter and more importantly white out inventor. She saw a common problem and instead of just chucking out entire sheets of typing she set out to fix the problem. Often

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A Minecraft diary thing

Guys on FOSS ·

2011/02/17

So i've been gone awhile and the Thoth has been bugging me to do some posting so ill be doing a day by day type thing of Minecraft. Similar to what PC gamer is but im doing this on my server which about half of the blog team plays. Those who do play are me Inerg, Crazy2be and Mekapedia and then the odd friend that does join. Any who here goes for day 1. So the first thing I would like to state is that I started this in a world were me and Crazy2be created a house like thing already. I'll do a walk

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LibreOffice History

Guys on FOSS ·

2011/02/12

Wow Ladies and Gentlemen, it has been far too long. I doesn't seem like a month ago since I last posted. Anyways, the show must go on. What have the GuysOnFOSS been up to lately? Not too much actually. Individual projects rumble onwards, and the new semester has brought more schoolwork... For most of us. Recently I switched my office suite from OpenOffice to LibreOffice. Our readers will probably be familiar with the course of events which prompted the creation of LibreOffice, but if you missed it

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Special Holiday Episode and a Poem

Guys on FOSS ·

2010/12/25

Hello Readers!This is a special holiday episode of the podcast. It is a discussion about software distribution and the pros/cons of having an app-store type method of distribution. I have also written a short poem for the holidays, which can be found below.Twas the night before Christmas, some people say,When old Steve Jobs took the holidays away.You opened your gift; A laptop, alright!But as you read the manual you shuddered in fright.Although you had payed for the best laptop there is,You found

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Humble indie

Guys on FOSS ·

2010/12/14

Well a couple of exciting things has happened with the Humble indie bundle. First of all, all of the people who purchased it now have a code which they can use on steam to get another way to download them. Secondly there running it for the second time. I would personally say that its a great thing to purchase the games from as you can choose what you wish to pay and can dedicate how ever much you want to different thins like the developers or to the charity they have selected. The games are also

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An Update

Guys on FOSS ·

2010/12/11

Hello,Sorry about the long gap between posts. It seems like things pile up all at once. So whats new with the GuysOnFOSS? We've all been involved at some level with a website design project, which has taken up much of our time. In addition, it is that time of year when things really get busy in the tangible world with exams and the holidays. I will make a greater attempt to update my Twitter feed more often when I come across things that I find interesting, and perhaps just to let you know what

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Why webcomics hate Woofy

Guys on FOSS ·

2010/11/20

Awhile ago we had some one who came across the blog through a search for why Web comics hate Woofy so I figured I would give a fairly basic explanation why. The most basic reason for the upkeep of the server. If you had every one just download the web comics through Woofy or some other script you would have a serious drain on a server but method to pay for the bandwidth. The only way most web comics are able to continue there hosting of the comics they need ads to earn them revenue so that they can

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No Podcast This Week

Guys on FOSS ·

2010/10/31

Hello readers,Just thought I'd do a quick post to let you all know that there will not be an episode this week due to all of us having commitments. You can stop staring eagerly at your computer monitor waiting for the podcast. We will be back (I hope) next week with episode 9. Happy Halloween from all of us at GuysOnFOSS!

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A Quick Primer to SSH

Guys on FOSS ·

2010/10/27

A quick guide to SSH:Have you been at work and think "Hey I can do this so much faster with x on my computer at home!" Well, SSH will solve your problem. SSH - Secure SHell - is a protocol for calling a remote system and controlling it via the shell. Designed in 1995, it has been put through the tests of time and now in version 2 it is one of the best ways of remote shell access."Wait. I want to use Firefox (or any other graphical program). This only gives me shell"SSH offers x forwarding, enabling

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The Eighth Episode of The GuysOnFOSS Podcast

Guys on FOSS ·

2010/10/23

Inerg and The Thoth fly solo... For about 8 minutes. The show is shorter this week due to audio problems, hopefully these will be fixed by next week. Enjoy the 8th episode of The GuysOnFOSS Podcast!News:Gene Simmons gets ddos'dPirate Bay Going to Space?Google Chrome 7Radon 6800 seriesOfficer BubblesOfficer Bubbles Original VideoLaptop Thief Returns DataWD 3 Terabyte hardrive Restraining Order Served Over FacebookNASA 100 Year Spaceship ProgramTopics:Learn how to use manMenuetOSProgram For The TI-8x

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The Seventh Episode of The GuysOnFOSS Podcast

Guys on FOSS ·

2010/10/16

Join The Thoth, Inerg and Mekapaedia on a roller coaster ride of a show. This week learn about what Mekapaedia knows about China, what The Thoth knows about AROS, what Inerg knows about geography and what the pope knows about technology. All this and more on the seventh episode of The GuysOnFOSS Podcast.NewsGoogle tests driver-less carPope warns about illusions vs realityPolynomial - Space of The MusicSkydive from space canceledPeople are not choosing effective passwordsLondon stock exchange runs

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Try It For A Week: AROS Part 3

Guys on FOSS ·

2010/10/14

Alright, so here is the third part I promised.AROS was originally called the Amiga Research Operating System. This was later changed to the recursive name AROS Research Operating System. It is based around AmigaOS, which was originally developed by Commodore in the mid 80's for the Amiga computer. However, the Amiga was not doing well, and rather than lose it entirely a open project began. This is where AROS came in with the goals:Is as compatible as possible with AmigaOS 3.1.Can be ported to

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Try It For A Week: AROS Part 2

Guys on FOSS ·

2010/10/12

I spoke too soon: As you can see Icaros is working just fine. For some reason, even after I got it to boot properly by disabling DMA, I was still having problems. Every time I tried to start my browser (OWB) it hung while it was "generating font cache"I tried re-installing it with the full image instead of the Lite image and I got it going. It looks good. I will do a couple more tests and try some of the included apps so I can do at least one more post on this interesting OS. Stay tuned.

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Try It For A Week: AROS Part 1

Guys on FOSS ·

2010/10/12

Hello Readers!I hope you have been enjoying our podcasts as much as we have enjoyed creating them. If you have been listening to them you will know that we recently kicked off our new segment 'Try It For A Week'. If you haven't been listening, I am not talking to you.For my 'Try It For A Week' I chose AROS. Things have not gone well thus far. I though I'd have no trouble with this, but I am. The distribution I have been trying out is called Icaros and can be found here. Booting the live cd was no

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Interesting find in google maps

Guys on FOSS ·

2010/10/09

As I was wasting time going through Google street view I found a tank. While this is a a tech blog I thought I would share this interesting find since its related to Google's street view. Here's a direct link if you prefer.View Larger Map

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The Sixth Episode of The GuysOnFOSS Podcast

Guys on FOSS ·

2010/10/09

On this week's show Inerg and Mekapaedia join me, The Thoth, for our sixth excursion into the land of podcasting. Remember, you have one more week to enter our contest to win a free beta key for Starcraft 2 or Plain Sight. We introduce our new segment - 'Try it for a week' - listen for more details. Join us for this and so much more on The GuysOnFOSS Podcast. Errors: I don't know who was pronouncing Maemo correctly, but there seems to be a bit of confusion about it on the Maemo forums. If you know

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