Month: June 2011

River Song? A Good Man goes to war!

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It all coming together!

I just got done watching Doctor Who: A Good man goes to war and I must say the end of this mid season finale is something that even you can’t imagine. I did comment in the past about the possibility of Amelia Pond having a baby but I never would of imagine that Amelia would also bring about the famous River Song performed by Alex Kingston and She has brought many great ideas and even a possible spinoff of the show if they do decide to do that. I have been intrigued in the past and I am really curious about what will happen.

Spoilers — Ahh those Spoilers!

We first get to see River song in Season 4 : Silence in the Library but I never really connected with who she was until later in the season when we see her again until the Season 5: Time of Angels. Then only then we get to see what the future might hold. She would always talk about Killing a Good Man and we never really understood who but I did think it might of been the Doctor but no one could be that truthful and still be a great character. We do know that she is going to have to be the next or something is going to happen because of seeing in this season that the Doctor dies and doesn’t have time to regenerate. The Episode in question is The Impossible Astronaut. Everything that has happened in this season suggests that there will be a female Doctor Who but I wonder if that means that the Series for the Doctor Who right now is at the end of life.

Is the Series at its end?

I am not sure what will but everything that I have saw in this season suggests that there will be no more Doctor Who or at least a Male Doctor who. I will keep hoping that there will be more to come in the next season and that they will be keeping the series going. I just don’t know what the writers are wanting to accomplish or what their plans for the series. I also wished they didn’t do a mid season cut off just to have you hanging until the fall of 2011.

What do you think will happen? Will they keep the series going or do a Spin off??

Keep it Real

Paul Sylvester

Get Thunderbird to launch Firefox/Chrome browsers in Linux!

Paul

This isn’t like Windows!

If your like me you probably clicked a link in Thunderbird and thought you would be taken to your favorite browser but that isn’t the case with Linux. The pop up screen asking you which application to launch is quite similar to Windows but there is a problem. If you have had no experience with Linux then you might ask yourself “Where’s the program files?” It seems that Windows and Linux differs from each other in that aspect. I did have to do some things to get Thunderbird to get it to launch a browser. This quick tutorial will help those new to Linux to do what they have always done on Windows. I will warn people that clicking on links in your emails is the first way to get a virus or a credit card stolen but that is for another topic and discussion!

Some Preparations are in order!

For some of use this is something that should already be included, but it seems that Mozilla didn’t add some important config scripts into the Thunderbird application for Linux. Thanks to Google, I found the answers and I thought I would also share them with people so it would be much easier for others to enable launching the browser in Thunderbird.

You will need to add these strings in Thunderbird:

In Thunderbird: edit > Preferences > Advanced > Config Editor

Right click anywhere in the list and click ADD > String. Then add these strings with values!

  • String: network.protocol-handler.app.http Value: x-www-browser

  • String: network.protocol-handler.app.https Value: x-www-browser

  • String: network.protocol-handler.app.ftps Value: x-www-browser

Once that is done, your ready for the next step of the process.

Where Do I find these files?

Most cases you will find these files in only one place and that is almost like a C: Drive. In order to find the right program, you first need to go:

  1. /usr/bin/firefox.sh (shell script)

  2. /usr/bin/chromium-browser.sh (shell script)

  3. /usr/bin/rekonq.ex (Executable)

These are the two files you will need to tell Thunderbird to launch the right application when you click on a link. You should only need to do this once for each type of link from http, https, and the last one is the file transfer protocol but if you do this, I see no reason why you would be able to launch your favorite browser. Depending on which browser you have installed, it should be easily found in the the bin directory and you should be able to launch your browser even if it is not a well known browser. .

Let’s Rock Linux

Paul Sylvester

How to get free pair of glasses every year!

Paul

That’s not possible?

If you saying it sn’t possible then you don’t know how to refer friends. The great idea of Glasses USA (Affiliate Link)is that you can get your glasses paid with as little as 10 people buy glasses from them. I don’t mean to say it is easy but it can be a cheap way to get the people needed to get your free pair of glasses. I like to do this from time when I need new glasses and I’m going to share you the secret to me getting some great glasses for little to no money on your part. Most of the time you have to pay to Glasses, but if you follow my three easy steps, you will be on your way to not having to pay for anything but time.

All it takes is time!

If you willing to invest in a little you can also get glasses for free, this might not be easy but it will be the most rewarding when you Refer people to Glasses USA (Affiliate Sale). I’ve done this in the past and it works really well. I will be giving you my secrets so you can get get people you free pair of glasses and not spend a dime.

The first thing you will need to do is go to Glasses USA (Affiliate Link)and create an account.

  • Go into your Account and find Referred Friends

  • Look for the “Share the link with your friends:”

  • Use that link provided to tell people about Glasses USA(Affiliate Link)!

There are some other ideas to consider!

If you have a weblog or website you can always recommend it on your website and using that URL that you just got done finding. It can be a very easy way to get a free pair of glasses. I must say that I am an sell for them (Affiliate Link) also so when I am done getting my free pair of glasses, I then switch back to my affiliate link. So you can see this is very useful for me to make money the rest of the year and still get my free pair of Glasses.

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We all need glasses

Paul Sylvester

Living with Linux offline and blogging about it!

Paul

No time to be offline!

Hey Let’s face it, I am more and more wanting to blog. It is however quite hard to do that while traveling or when I have family. So I been curious as to how to do that. As you know I’ve been using Linux more and more. I have thoroughly enjoyed the experience. The only problem sometimes is I didn’t have a internet connection and I know myself, that can be quite hard to write blog post. So I went searching around to see if I can blog offline. I found some great little programs that will do it easily in Linux.

Blogging Offline, Didn’t know you could do that?

If your like me, you probably think you have to be online all the time. I am just glad that I found a program that will do me everything that I wanted to do with blogging and publishing my posts. I hate those times when I do not have access to an internet connection and I have something that I want to write. I didn’t know you could blog offline either, but as I was wanting to delve more and more into Linux, I am steadily making Kubuntu my home away from Windows. I’ve always been fascinated with writing and Linux in general so that is why I am leaning more and more on teaching others about the Operating System.

Some programs that you should check out:

  • Blogilo — This is the one that I am using with WordPress right now and it seems to work really well. I’m really impressed with the software and I think they are making some great strides with offline blogging.
  • blogGtk — Looks good but have not actually tested this one out. I will install it later on but the screen shots don’t look anything like Blogilo and even then It looks somewhat the same. I guess I could live with any blogging software but right now I am loving Blogilo.
  • Gnome blog editor — This one looks to be for Gnome projects but does look promising even though I am using KDE. I don’t know anything more than that, I might also try that one out just for kicks.

As you can see these are just a Few of blogging tools that the Open source community has created to better fasciliate and make blogging just that much easier!

How do I add links?

There are definately several ways to add links. I will give you a few ideas and let you come up with your own way to help you blog offline.

  • Automatic Seo Links plugin — Great little plugin for the simplest of things. The little plugin will allow you to automatically associate any keyword with an URL. So if I were to tell you about Linux, it would automatically link to a website. This is quite handy and have it used it in the past. You should look into it if you have a wordpress blog.
  • Blogilo — Download you most recent blog post and you will already have links available to keep your readers on your site longer and encourage them to stay on your site.
  • Put the links in when your online — This is also something that is very useful because if your like me, you sometimes can’t think of the links but know that if you had internet access you could easily find them. So before you post with Blogilo, just go through the post and put those link in there when your ready.

I hope these help you create even better blog and allow yourself time to be offline. I really am enjoying Linux and how open the community is. Hope to see you soon!!

Keep It Real!

Paul Sylvester

Backing up in Linux is so easy!

Paul

Why Do I need to back up in Linux?

This is something near and dear to my heart because of just how important it is to back up you important data.  I’ve already talked about backup before but I never really thought about back up for Linux until recently.  Let’s face it when you came to Linux, you probably didn’t think you would need to back but you really do.   I learned the hard way on this.   My Story so others can learn from my mistake, I have been working on a big database for to keep track of who comes in and what they usually order but I had a problem today, and thought I had backed up my database before I re-installed the Linux distro.   In reality, I didn’t actually.   I wasn’t happy when I found out that the Database wasn’t their after I had wiped the drive and re-installed.

Are you ready for a Disaster?

I ask that because I know I wasn’t ready and I know most of you are probably the same way.   You probably didn’t even think about backing up in Linux.   I am not really worried about backing up the distro but to back up the important data.   I wanted to share some of them with you and so you can update yours accordingly.   So here are a few good Ubuntu/Kubuntu back programs:

  • KBackup — This is the one that I am using right now but will be looking for a way to do offline back up in the cloud. (apt-get install KBackup)

  • Simple Backup Solutions — Another one that I have found that will be playing with later on this month.  (apt-get install simplebackup)

  • fwbackups — This is one of the more easier backup programs, that can do single and scheduled backups.   This might be the one for me but only time will tell.  (apt-get install fwbackups)

  • Amanda — If your have several different clients who need to have offsite backups this would be one way to do.   Allows you to have mulitple backups to a single server.   This might be good for my clients, will have to look into this one.

  • And more . . . . . .

There are even more out there but these are the ones that interest me and I thought they would interest your also.    I will look online for some cloud storage later on this week.   You should always have more than one backup plan.   I always like the Rule of 3’s when it comes to backup:

  1. In the Home

  2. A pen drive

  3. Off site

It’s time to change

If you haven’t already started a backup plan for your Linux machine, it is always time to change.   You probably have something you want to keep and not lose.   You could have Pictures, documents, and client information that you need later on.   So what are you waiting for?

I’m backing up Now!!

Paul Sylvester

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