Further to my earler post “The coolest laptop ever” – more news has come to light in relation to the option of installing a fully fledged distro on the laptop.
Mandriva One is now a fully hardware native linux distro.. meaning that after installing all the hardware on the Eee PC is detected “out of the [...]
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Eee PC 701 with a real linux distro that’s hardware native!
Posted in Computers, Programming, Uncategorized, tagged eee pc, eee pc mandriva, linux, mandriva one, native distro, Spring on 8 September , 2008 | Leave a Comment »
How to make your mac speak remotely
Posted in Computers, Programming on 5 February , 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Unlike many other OS’s out there, mac’s OSX has a built in text-to-speech (TTS) system. Knowing this can open up some powerful features for the power user.
Not only can you make it speak text in a document by highlighting text and visiting the Services menu, but you can also call the speech engine from command [...]
Creating a Simple Java Web Browser
Posted in Computers, Java, Programming, tagged code, easy, Java, source, web browser on 5 February , 2008 | 1 Comment »
Creating a simple web browser in Java is quite simple. Although i teach C++ (i must confess), for ease and speed of programming Java is great for beginners, especially for multi-platform GUI applications. That said, below is code for a simple Java based web browser. You could easily modify this code to browse the [...]
