Archive for June, 2006
« Previous EntriesTranslations are back!
Thursday, June 29th, 2006Now, by popular demand - well, three or four people - international translation services are back. Click the flags on the right hand side to translate the currently viewed page into the country’s native language.
Note: upon changing page, the translator may revert the page to English. In these situations, simply reselect the appropriate flag and [...]
Now with added ‘Magic’
Friday, June 23rd, 2006Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I, the DivineOmega, am proud to announce magic has been brought to my website. Yes, ‘real magic’. See here, or rather up there, just under the website’s title, that quotation/joke. Now here comes the magic kids, press F5 or click your refresh/reload button on your web browser of choice.
WOW! Did you [...]
Redmond goes bye-bye
Thursday, June 22nd, 2006“Linux wasn’t started as any kind of rebellion against the ‘evil Microsoft empire.’
I’m not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect.”
–Linus Torvalds (to the New York Times)
I do love that quote.
About a month or two ago I switched from Microsoft Windows to Ubuntu Linux, and since then I [...]
How to Mount a Disc Image within Linux
Sunday, June 18th, 2006This tutorial describes how to mount disc images in Linux operating systems, such as Ubuntu, SUSE, Fedora Core, Gentoo and others. Various formats are available.
MDF - Alcohol 120% CD Image File
NRG - Nero CD-Image File
ISO - ISO9660 Standard CD Disc Image
DAA - Direct Access Archive (can only be managed by the shareware Windows program PowerISO)
In [...]
Ground Breaking News - Antigravity Technology Developed!
Sunday, June 18th, 2006A major event on my own site, this post - the 200th post, is coupled with an extremely significant scientific discovery. Antigravity technology has finally been achieved. It utilises an advanced proactive combination of both organic and non-organic materials. Suprisingly, these ‘integredients-of-levitation’ are quite commonly found in the universe.
We asked the professor who worked on [...]
Microsoft Office versus OpenOffice (For Students)
Saturday, June 17th, 2006One of my friends recently found an advert from Microsoft for the Student Edition of Microsoft Office, and with my ever amusing digital image editing skills I tweaked it slightly.
Tell me, oh students out there, which price do you prefer?
Ship’s Autopilot Fails due to Windows Error
Saturday, June 17th, 2006This is quite old news, but none the less it is funny.
One of the Navy’s ships used a Windows NT powered network to automate many of the functions of the ship, is meant to reduce the number of people needed to operate a ship. This dependance on Windows NT brought predictable results: the USS Yorktown [...]
Microsoft Xbox runs as a University Web Server
Saturday, June 17th, 2006“Public Universities are always running on a limited budget which means they sometimes come up with “innovative” solutions. A couple of years back, an X-Box with some variant of Linux installed had been put in the server room to support a subject designed to teach computer-illiterate Philosophy students how to build their own web pages. [...]
Hell of Sand
Monday, June 12th, 2006Hell of Sand is an excellent game just for messing around. Controls are simple point and click of the mouse, no need for any further explanation.
You have control of sand, salt, water, oil, fire, zombies and many other things. This quite literally is a sandbox game - you can do whatever you want and will [...]
Captain, we have categories!
Monday, June 12th, 2006The captain stares forward towards the view screen and for a few moments there is complete silence on the bridge.
The captain of the Starship Omega is a tall, proud man. He stands confidently as if he will be able to see a cloaked Bazarrian ship a mile off. His crew in the background, are all [...]