Using ZimWiki to Write Your Masterpiece
September 24, 2009 by Clair Ching
Filed under How To
Or soon to be great literary work, that is. ; ) Some of us might be aspiring to become writers of best selling novels or maybe screenplays or 1 act plays, etc. For that we need some tools that help us get our masterpiece out of our heads and somewhere online.
It so happens that in this case I will suggest a tool which could be easily available to you without proprietary licenses and agreements that might surprise you. Why? This is something that is most likely to be available in the repository of the Linux …read more
Projects to Make with a Linux Desktop
September 23, 2009 by Clair Ching
Filed under Geeky Fun
Ok, so there are seven interesting projects to check out, as mentioned by the Tux Radar blog. Not just one! But seven! Goodness, gracious. How does one give so much time to all these projects?
nyway, in that list of seven projects, two of them caught my eye. First involves you writing a text-based interactive game. You can use the tool Gnome-Inform7 for this. It’s basically an application that lets you create your world and describe it. You could code your game just by writing it all in plain English. Who says you …read more
Linux From Scratch
May 14, 2008 by Clair Ching
Filed under Geeky Fun
Why would anyone bother with making Linux from scratch? With all these distros with almost everything you need, people still choose to build Linux from source. There are people who say that they get a more optimized system that way. Others want it because of the control that they have over the system. I know of one person who built Linux from scratch and it took him a long time to do so and if I recall correctly he couldn’t really use his computer for a week because he did something wrong and it was his …read more






