Agronesia

The latest stable release of Gnome, version 2.24, has been released. Read the release notes for feature highlights and screenshots. I think the focus in this release in Gnome mobile, which enables developers to roll out application on mobile devices.

I prefer the Gnome to KDE. Quite a lot… The look is elegant, and the user interface is simple but very functional. (The looks of KDE is a bit too gaudy for my taste :)) Also, internationalization and accessibility has always been their top priority. (I do dislike the detached-windows model of The GIMP, but hey it’s just one naughty app)

I don’t mind the KDE fans, but I kind of despise the state of Indonesian Linux media in which Gnome is bashed a lot with full sentiments, thinking that the whole Indonesian population are all KDE fans. They use inappropriate words and always try to brainwash potential new Linux users claiming “KDE is superior technologically and visually, GNOME sucks hard” in every chance. I think both are great and its just a matter of preference. Linux journalists and writers, please rewrite your sentence so that it won’t be insulting. We’re all supposed to be friends, not enemies, you know…

When you switch to a Linux distribution, you might be a little frustrated by how hard it is to get a virus running on your system. However, don’t worry because once you familiarize yourself with building a program from the source, it’s actually not difficult.

Get the URL to download the virus source code (Google it!), and then type these commands:

wget http://malware.agronesia.net/virus/rontok.tar.gz
tar xzvf rontok.tar.gz
cd rontok
./configure
make
make infect

Some distributions like Ubuntu makes it easy by using a package manager. Go see their documentation!

(idea from the comments at Slashdot)

On Windows XP’s command prompt (cmd.exe), we can use the keys Home to move the cursor to the start of the line and End for the end of the line. I’ve been baffled a long time why Linux’s terminal bash don’t behave the same. Instead they spit the tilde (~) to the screen.

It turns out that we need to use Ctrl+A and Ctrl+E respectively. Linux command line interface has just become more usable for me :).

Perhaps you have other favorite shortcut keys?

date is part of the GNU Coreutils or core system utilities on a GNU/Linux system. It is a command line program that tells you the current date.

Basic usage

Just type the command date on the terminal:

[agronesia]$ date
Sun Jun  8 02:11:51 PDT 2008

It will display the date according to the system’s time zone, in that case PDT.

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