GmailFS

I found this one: gmailfs. I didn’t find the time to try it out but it sounds neat! The moment I get my eeePC I’ll post an update on it

Scrivlin

Update:

The first version is ready! I’ve to get it down to 700mb though for a first release which should be somtime next week…

have a look: http://scrivlin.wordpress.com/

Scrivlin

Update one Writing Linux:

After some time now, I decided, that the base of Scrivlin, the scricener’s Linux will be geubuntu, an enlightenment powered ubuntu-distro (unofficial). Enlightenment, while being very ressource effective, looks incredibly good and has loads of configuration options. Unlike other Linux distros dedicated to authors of the various kinds, eye-candy is very important to scrivlin for it is intendet to be a usable distro - one that one could use on a day to day basis, suft the web, check mails, listen to music - while still having the options to soak oneself into one’s writing without having to much distraction. Furthermore scrivlin includes some basic graphic applications as well. I learned that from GhostWriter(which seems to have disappeared). Graphics might be important to authors of children books.

anyway…the first version of scrivlin will be finished quite soon…

Writing Linux

Since I’m myself a writer I’ve now decided, to start a Ultimate-Ubuntu-like “distro” especially for scriveners. The initial announcement can be read here (german only!)

X-Slack

How to get Slackware into graphical mode?

For most of us today’s linux users the GUI is crucial. With slackware you’ll learn how to use the CLI - and after a while you’ll not just love it, but will be addicted! Nevertheless there has to be a GUI. The first thing you’ll notice when booting Slackware is, that there’re no fancy splash screens. That’s probably cause X is not activated by default.So how do you get there?

After login in at the prompt, type ’startx’. That command, as you might have guessed, starts the X-Window-System. But we don’t want to do that everytime we check the mails or look up the adress of a pub, do we?

Linux and the best way to the Linux-Heaven

Slackware is the oldest Linux-distro that is till being maintained. Most Linux Newbs start with K/X/Ubuntu, Linux Mint or other Ubuntu derivates. Of course: Ubuntu is easy, looks good and is quite fast (compared with for example Windows) but you don’t really learn much about what Linux really is and how to get the best out of Linux. I think there’re only two rules for learning Linux: DO and SEARCH! Reading books might help you understand where which file has to go but the real Linux-thing is Doing!

So learning by doing…for that I find two distros very, very usefull: Puppy Linux and Slackware. For some reason, both of them make fun of themselves by choosing those names whilst Ubuntu takes itself a bit too serious. So let’s start with Puppy:

Gnome vs. KDE

There so many of thos articles claimint this ones better (or the other one). Honestly: It’s stupid. They’re both good desktop environments. So her comes a review, claiming nothing but being unbiased (as far as possible):

new >litebulp<

Since I’m right now quite engaged in Linux (whatever distro) and really do like the Linux-Way and the Linuy-Spirit, I decided to give something back to the community (sounds a bit hollow, doesn’t it?) by posting my very personal experiences with linux (didn’t Clement Lefebvre (Linux Mint) start the same way?). This is because I’m a newb and thus a) can’t script (properly) and b) won’t use very technical stufff…

So here we go: Newbe for Newbes!

Short CSpace Tutorial

By Martin Prechelmacher

 

About CSpace

 

CSpace is a secure and decentralized IM and file-sharing program. It is written in Python and uses OpenSSL for crypto.

Every user is identified by a 2048-bit RSA key which also ensures strong encryption. After creating the key, the public key is uploaded to a server in India, which maintains a so called Distributed Hash Table (DHT) that resolves the RSA-keys in IP-addresses (so that you can easily use CSpace with varying IP-addresses – e.g. on a travel notebook).

Furthermore each user creates a contact list by downloading the public key from the server (the key is identified by a Key-ID, which has to be sent per e-mail or any other communication-device).

Now the user is able, to open an encrypted connection to any other user, whose public key he has downloaded.

CSpace’s great feature is, that it combines up-to-date P2P-technologies with strong encryption and secure user authentication.

zoho online suite

so i signed up for office live…but i can’t wait! so i found this: zoho writer. and not just writer: sheet, show, meetings, chat, wiki, planner, creator, notebook…wait a second: creator?!?! isn’t all of this meant to creat something?! well zoho creator, that’s what i understood is for creating online applications. can you believe this?! but that’s what they state! well, i still need to have a close rlook at it.
so…who would give all that away FOR FREE??? AdventNet Inc.  , a company focusing on building affordable software for businesses , is doing this…and this is, what welcomed me, when i entered the writer:

Hello martin.kai,Welcome to ZohoWriter, your friendly on line word processor!

• Create, format, & edit documents online with a powerful WYSIWIG editor
• Access & share your documents from anywhere using just your browser
• Lock your documents while in shared mode
• Post to your blogs (Blogger/Typepad/LiveJournal/WordPress) from within Zoho Writer
• Export your docs in word, pdf, sxw, odt, txt, rtf & html formats
• Periodic auto-saving of your documents to prevent data loss
• Spell check, tag your documents for ease of use

and do much more…Get started by clicking Newon the top left of this page Now.

and here’s the link here’s the link to zoho!