http://www.raiden.net Raiden's Realm! Bringing Linux to the World! en-us http://www.raiden.net/articles/lego_mindstorms_rcx/ In this article I will describe my experiences playing with an old Lego Mindstorms Robotics Kit (where the “brain” is an RCX).Lego sells and maintains Robotics Kits, which it calls the Mindstorms. Right now, the most recent product they have is the NXT. These are composed of lego pieces, engines, se ..... http://www.raiden.net/news/Notable_Note_Apps_for_Fastidious_FOSS_Freaks/ At their heart, note-taking apps perform a very simple function: put letters on the screen. They differ widely, though, in the special features each offers. Tomboy Notes, for example, is the power of WikiText, which keeps multiple notes on any topic organized, no mater how you rename or rearrange th ... http://www.raiden.net/news/winetricks_20100316_released/ New winetricks 20100316: new verbs steam, adobeair, 7zip, d3dxof and win7. Today's winetricks was brought to you by the letters W and S, and the number 7.more ... http://www.raiden.net/news/QA_with_Matt_Asay_How_Linux_is_Beating_Apple_and_Much_More/ att took some time recently to share his perspective with me on why Canonical can take Linux places Red Hat can't, how Linux beats Apple, and how the Ubuntu community's passion and focus on design will change the way people see Linux for a long time.more ... http://www.raiden.net/news/Mozilla_Launches_Firefox_Mobile_Add-On_Challenge/ Mozilla has launched a contest to spur on development of add-ons for its recently-released Firefox for Mobile browser. Between now and April 12, developers are encouraged to create extensions or other add-ons tailored for the mobile browser.more ... http://www.raiden.net/news/Open_source_Less_profit_more_fun/ Open source ain't what it used to be. It's both more and less.On the "more" side of the equation, let's start with a big number: 19,000. According to Black Duck Software, that's the approximate number of open source projects started in 2009. As Peter Vescuso of Black Duck told me, "W ... http://www.raiden.net/news/First_Glance_at_SimplyMEPIS_85/ All Linux users have their own vision of the ideal distribution. Some people crave stability, others want new and exciting features, some people are very security focused and others are concerned about licensing. Warren Woodford has his own vision and he's made it accessible to the world via MEP ... http://www.raiden.net/news/Microsoft_Details_Internet_Explorer_9/ As predicted, more Microsoft news from MIX10, and this is some big stuff: Internet Explorer 9. As we all know, Microsoft really let Internet Explorer rot away, allowing competitors to make much better browsers with better standards compliance and performance. With IE9, Microsoft is aiming to not jus ... http://www.raiden.net/news/Privacy_Isnt_Dead__Its_Not_Even_Sleeping/ It’s become something of a predictable phenomenon: an article, op-ed, or blog post will surface with an incendiary quote indicating that privacy is dead, or that Internet users have given up privacy with abandon. A slew of data is thrown around – often reporting on teenagers’ online habits – and a e ... http://www.raiden.net/news/Benchmarks_Mandriva_PCLinuxOS_Ubuntu_openSUSE/ Last week we delivered benchmarks of Fedora 13 Alpha and Ubuntu 10.04 (along with testing the Fedora 11 and 12 too), but today we have a new set of comparative benchmarks that are covering the latest development versions of Ubuntu 10.04, Mandriva 2010.1, PCLinuxOS 2010, and openSUSE 11.3. Here they ...