Star Wars Steampunk

By Mike Basinger

Eric Poulton has posted some fantastic art work on what Star Wars would look like as a Steampunk story.

Turning on 3D Chessboard in Feisty

By Mike Basinger

To turn on the 3D chessboard in glChess, now include in gnome-games 2.8, do the following:

Install 3D drivers for your video card if you have not already. It may work without these drivers on some cards.
Install dependences
sudo apt-get install python2.4 python-imaging python2.4-opengl libgtkglext1
Download python-gtkglext1
wget -c http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/glchess/python-gtkglext1_1.1.0-2feisty_i386.deb

Install python-gtkglext1
sudo dpkg -i python-gtkglext1_1.1.0-2feisty_i386.deb
Launch Applications –> Games –> Chess
Go […]

Back in Time: Changing Linux

By Mike Basinger

In the 26th March 2007 (Season 4 Episode 15) episode of LugRadio the question was proposed:
If you could go back in time and change something to make Linux more successful, what would it be?
I think I would like to go back in time and encourage Linus to create a “Linux Code of Conduct” something like […]

Monday Funny

By Mike Basinger

Found this picture on the net this weekend.