Linux + Compiz - The beauty of Linux -

I have found this video while stumble upon, It has a beautiful acquarium as “wall paper”, and the Compiz cube turned on.

Credits go to: http://www.youtube.com/user/sausagenmuff

And here is a small description of him about how to do this.

1. install linux2. install compiz3. enable 3d cube, wobbly windows..ect4. set cube opacity slider BOTH to 25.5. use a skydome and check off "animate" (panorama's from google images work well)6. Install atlantis "fish" pluginyou can get it here:http://gitweb.compiz-fusion.org/?p=fu…(extract to your home dir, go into that directory inside a terminal, type “make” then “sudo make install”

Well you better see it:

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Linux Foundation Announces Were Linux Winner

Linux Foundation Announces Were Linux Winner

Twenty-something graphic designer Amitay Tweeto wins trip to Tokyo for his video What Does It Mean To Be Free?

SAN FRANCISCO, April 9, 2009 The Linux Foundation (LF), the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced the winner of its Were Linux video contest.

Amitay Tweeto, a 25-year-old graphic designer from Israel, beat out 90 contest entrants to win the grand prize for his video What Does It Mean To Be Free? Tweeto will receive a trip to Tokyo, Japan to participate in the Linux Foundations Japanese Linux Symposium in October 2009.

The Were Linux video contest was launched in December and encouraged Linux enthusiasts to create one-minute videos showcasing what Linux means to them, as well as to convince other people to try it. Ninety Linux users from around the world entered videos in the contest, which attracted a wide variety of submissions and drew more than 100,000 combined views of the entries.

In addition to the grand-prize winner, two runners-up are being recognized. The winning videos can be viewed on the Linux Foundation video site:

* Grand-prize winner: What Does It Mean To Be Free?

* Runner-up: The Origin

* Runner-up: Linux Pub

A combination of community votes and a panel of judges determined the winners:

Matt Asay, CNET blogger and executive at Alfresco, Inc.;
Larry Augustin, venture capitalist and former chairman of VA Software,
and Linux Foundation board member;
Jono Bacon, Ubuntu community manager;
Joe Brockmeier, openSUSE community manager;
Melinda Mettler, director, School of Advertising at the Academy of Art
University; and
Tim OReilly, founder and CEO, OReilly Media, Inc.

The Were Linux contest has really highlighted the diversity and creativity of the Linux community, said Amanda McPherson, vice president of marketing and developer programs at the Linux Foundation. Were honored to be able to provide a forum where Linux users can share their passion and experiences with Linux. The level of participation reflected in both the submissions and voting process represents the strong, expansive Linux user community.

About the Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation is a nonprofit consortium dedicated to fostering the growth of Linux. Founded in 2007, the Linux Foundation sponsors the work of Linux creator Linus Torvalds and is supported by leading Linux and open source companies and developers from around the world. The Linux Foundation promotes, protects and standardizes Linux by providing unified resources and services needed for open source to successfully compete with closed platforms. For more information, please visit www.linux-foundation.org.

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Trademarks: The Linux Foundation and Linux Standard Base are trademarks of The Linux Foundation. Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds.

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small tip - Find and delete files with a given extension from a directory and subdirectories

Sometimes you may need to erase some given type of files or with a given extension from a directory and its child directories.

This can also work in some other ways, that I will also show you in this posts.

To achieve this try this command.

find /directory/where/to/delete -name ‘*.ext’ -exec rm ‘{}’ +

You may also use it to delete files with a given filename.

find /path/to/working/directory -name ‘Aerosmith*’ -exec rm ‘{}’ +

The above example would delete all files starting with Aerosmith, this may be used to erase all mp3 files that start with Aerosmith, but do you really want to do that :).

you can also use the find command with exec option, to do some other things, like to change permissions to files.

find /tmp/ -name ‘*.txt’ -exec chmod o+w ‘{}’ +

This will make all .txt files in /tmp/ and subdirectories, writable by others (rest of the world).

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Brazilian overlords

In case you thought that reading about the Akonadi developer sprint on the dot gave you an all encompassing overview of stuff happening around Akonadi, you forgot our brazilian friends.

Adenilson Cavalcanti, also featured in one of Danny’s excellent commit digests, has been working like a mad man (or a genious, thin line and all that ) on the Akonadi resources for Google’s data services.

Since there is no business like show business, we hereby proudly present you, straight from the source, exclusive premium footage of these resources in action.

Video of Akonadi working with Google Contacts

Video of Akonadi working with Google Calendar

(Videos available in Flash and OGG Theora, embedded and downloadable thanks to the excellent blip.tv service)

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