Lyncis.info

Lyncis Star Logo

Goosh: The Web-based Google Shell

That’s for those, who are strictly tied to console. http://goosh.org. Looks like real shell, but searches. Really.

It’s simple — working on Google AJAX API, in browser. I suppose soon we could see true #/bin/goosh console for GNU )) Perfect thing, nothing to say.

Via Atoma pieraksti.

HOWTO: QT font antialiasing under Gnome

This howto is about making QT4 fonts look like default GTK fonts in Gnome. This example about Ubuntu GNU/Linux, but should work on all Gnome systems. Saying simple, some applications (like Skype, Last.fm and others) looks a bit different (mmm… say ugly) under Gnome. That usually happens because these apps are using QT, and QT doesn’t know about your Gnome font settings — both engines store their own settings, and “hinting” (method, that makes fonts look great) method is different. But, fixing is simple. Read the rest of this entry »

Linux desktop — Windows’s windows

Free Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.usSo, I have installed both Windows and Linux on my Desktop. Can’t believe? See the screenshot. It’s not fake, it works really. And it really helps me with development. We do development on Linux, and we can test webapps both on Linux and Windows, on the same desktop.

So, the question is “How??”. That’s all because of VirtualBox’s (completely GNU virtual machine) feature, that can show guest machine windows on host machine desktop. Easy, heh. Great idea. But we still want to benchmark Adobe Creative Studio 3 on that box :)

,

Before you go

Going so soon? May these links be a guide to web enlightenment. Schwing!