I recently received a speeding ticket and decided to get a radar detector to help me out in the future with any more speed traps that I might encounter. Upon much research I decided to go with the Escort 9500i due to it’s low false alarm rate and the ability to block known areas which falsely trigger the detector using the detector’s GPS capability. Once installed, one soon sees the problem with the cigarette lighter adapter as it hangs over your radio and somewhat obstructs your view. The great part about the Escort is that it uses a standard RJ11 telephone jack for power input; likewise for most Bel radar detectors. Even better, there is easy access to switched power right beside the mirror giving you the possibility of a clean install. The guide below should make your install that much easier as you will not need a Volt meter to see what wire is what.
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CheckGmail, Linux’s Blackberry
20 05 2008CheckGmail is the Blackberry of the Linux world that relatively is still unknown to most Linux users. Basically, CheckGmail is a task bar Gmail notifier primarily developed by Owen Marshall that makes checking email a task that doesn’t even require for you to actually check your mail most of the time. A click within CheckGmail is all that is needed. If for some reason you are wondering, CheckGmail works with the best and biggest email service - Gmail. The great thing about Gmail is that it works with any POP3 server, allowing you to consolidate your email accounts. You can even check your email on Gmail hosted domains and run multiple instances of CheckGmail if you have multiple Gmail accounts. Once you learn about this great application you will have another reason to switch to Linux. If you are already are on the Linux platform, you will probably install it after reading this review.
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Tags : CheckGmail, email, Gmail, Gtk2-Sexy, Labels, libcrypt, libsexy, Linux, notifier, POP3, Ubuntu
Categories : Linux
How To Install Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron On The Asus M50Sv-A1
19 05 2008Almost all of the hardware on the Asus M50Sv-A1 works out of the box after Ubuntu’s installation is complete. There are none the less a few tweaks that are needed to be performed and few drivers that are needed to be installed. The screens brightness can’t be increased, the Nvidia driver is not installed, the webcam driver is not installed, the fingerprint reader driver is not installed, the email LED is non-functional, the microphone is not enabled by default, the hard drive has a firmware glitch, and the speakers don’t mute when the headphones are plugged in. This short installation tutorial is intended to save you the time and grief associated with searching for each particular solution on the internet.
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Tags : Linux, Ubuntu, Asus, M50Sv-A1, Nvidia, Envy, uvc, webcam, driver, fingerprint reader, libpam, fprint, Hardy Heron, 8.04, CheckGmail, email LED, hard drive, load cycle, microphone
Categories : Linux
A Trans-Siberian Adventure - From Seoul To Warsaw
17 05 2008Being a gear in today’s civilization thwarts much of what makes us human and rapes our soul of any adventure and freedom. Now that I am back in Canada, I look back fondly at the time when I had no address and commitment to do anything - my journey through Eurasia. For a short time I was free and carried myself on impulse guided desires, with time being my only restriction. Being able to feed my mind constantly with new exotic experiences throughout the journey was more gratifying and stimulating than I would have ever imagined. For most of us who have had a lifestyle of directed living normalized, it will be very difficult to appreciate the beauty of uncertainty and effort that backpacking gives you. Read on and below you will find my personal accounts of a journey through China, Mongolia, and Russia that inspired the former sentences and myself to look at life a little differently.
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Tags : trans-siberian, Seoul, China, Korea, Warsaw, train, Mongolia, Ulan Bator, Russia, Moscow, Erenhot, Weihai, Beijing, backpacking, Poland, Telerj, Jining, Gandan Monastery, Zanabazar Museum, Zaisan Memorial, ger, Lake Baikal
Categories : Travel
Linux Mint 4.0 (Daryna) - The Best Beginner Distro
10 01 2008
One of the best things about Linux is all the different flavors that you can get in - Mint is one of my favorites. Based on Canonical’s Ubuntu 7.10, Linux Mint 4.0 (download) takes Canonical’s prodigy and makes it even better. And if you thought Ubuntu providing everything out of the box was impressive, Linux Mint provides everything out of the net. In addition to that, Linux Mint developers improved the usability by changing the menus and desktop layout. On top of that they added a software portal that makes installing the your software faster and easier. All of this put together brings about the finest beginner distro available to date.
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Tags : Genome, Linux, Linux Mint
Categories : Linux
Our Society Is One Big Pyramid Scheme
27 12 2007No matter how you look at it, our society is one big pyramid scheme serving the elite and enslaving masses. None the less, this is nothing new as this scheme has been propagated by the thirteen blood lines that have originated from ancient Babylon who are known to us today as our government. The members of these thirteen blood lines are organized through various secret societies that manipulate our government and administer our society. Their banks are the force that dictate our lives in every single aspect, including: migration, quality of life and freedom. Everyone else outside of these thirteen clans is nothing more that a building block supporting the cap stone at the top. And like with every other pyramid scheme, there are a whole bunch of losers at the bottom.
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Tags : New World Order, Illuminati, Masonry, Freemasonry, nepotism, elitism, pyramid scheme, materialism, capitalism, puppet government, Mesopotamia, Sumeria, debt slavery, imperialization
Categories : Politics
BMPx - Hotter Than Your Average Media Player
15 12 2007After trying almost every audio media player out there for Linux, I finally found the most versatile and user friendly one - BMPx. What especially won me over about BMPx was the user interface. It is intuitive and organized with almost no settings to configure and no menus to get lost in. This is thanks to the fact that BMPx is fresh and it’s not trying to throw in a hundred useless features like the competition. It gets better, BMPx gives you 7 music sources: Shoutcast, Icecast, MP3’s, Podcast’s, Last.fm, audio CD’s and Jamendo. BMPx stands for Beep Media Player experimental and it is mainly coded by Milosz Derezynski. It’s an evolution of the previous Beep Media Player which was based on XMMS and Xine, now BMPx is all original and gstreamer based. You can download BMPx from its’ official home page and compile it yourself. If your distro is Debian based you are in luck, you can download the package from getdeb.net. I wouldn’t recommend downloading it from the universal repository as it will give you an older version of the player. To use it you will also need the appropriate codecs. You can download the individual gstreamer codec packages, but the easiest thing to do if you are using Ubuntu is to download the restricted extras package using “sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras”. Finally, on to my review!
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Tags : Linux, BMPx, Shoutcast, Icecast, Jamendo, MP3 player, Last.FM, podcast
Categories : Linux
Why doesn’t Canada have a Ron Paul?
12 12 2007Canada is following in America’s footsteps in almost every single bad way, yet no one is speaking out about it, so let me. Canada for some false reason is taking part in an illegal war, its’ debt is growing at an astronomical rate, its’ resources are being plundered by foreign companies, new foreign policy is being implemented that is undermining its’ sovereignty and economy and this is just the tip of the iceberg. Are the people that numb to these facts? No, in actuality most of the people that I have spoken to acknowledge these problems when I bring them up, but point out that nothing can be done about it. This is where they are wrong! Enough people have now woken up in America to take a political initiative through Ron Paul. It took lies, treason, the murder of millions of Iraqis and countless other nefarious acts for the people to start opening their eyes. Do we Canadians have to get to the same breaking point before we start fighting back?
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Tags : 13 blood lines, 9/11, Amero, Bilderberg Group, Carlyle Group, class war, enslavement, Freemasonry, global enslavement, government corruption, Masonry, NAFTA, perpetual debt, Politics, Ron Paul
Categories : Politics
OK, so Linux isn’t pefect
11 12 2007My previous post might have been a bit misleading as Linux is not perfect and it isn’t without its’ hiccups. The fact that the Linux OS has not yet become large enough to get support from most hardware manufacturer’s and game developer’s is Linux’s biggest problem at the moment. This doesn’t mean that there’s absolutely no official hardware and software support. If you have a piece of hardware that is intended to be used by business’s you might even have an official driver released by the manufacturer as Linux is somewhat popular with big business. And there are a handful of commercial games available for Linux that are natively supported. None the less, official hardware and game support is far and between, but luckily home grown support is as big as ever.
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Tags : Linux
Categories : Linux
Kubuntu, a true Windows alternative
10 12 2007After I upgraded to Vista from Windows XP, my Microsoft OS experience just kept on getting systematically worse and worse. First of all, my computer (Toshiba R200) was promised to be fully Vista capable, but that was not the case as all of the 3D effects were not supported by the graphics card and a lot of the drivers were not yet available, oh well. In addition to that my processor was overburdened by the new bloated OS and my CPU fan never turned off and eventually died. After sending in my computer for service and waiting two months to get it back, I was ready to try again.
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Tags : KDE, Kubuntu, Linux
Categories : Linux
