There are times when I’m working on a new design and I think of the perfect paper vector to go with it. I can’t recall exactly where it was but I have a vague memory of seeing it somewhere about a month ago and then I spend an hour or so looking for it. I’ve [...]

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Network Stumbler a.k.a NetStumbler – This Windows based tool easily finds wireless signals being broadcast within range – A must have. It also has ability to determine Signal/Noise info that can be used for site surveys. I actually know of one highly known public wireless hotspot provider that uses this utility for [...]

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Like hot-rodders in the 1960s and 1970s, overclockers are a somewhat-new breed of enthusiasts. When an overclocker’s PC just isn’t fast enough, they don’t whine about it or buy a new CPU. Hell no. That would be too easy, and often times, too expensive. Instead, they do what any hot-rodder would do [...]

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Plymouth, MI – August 29, 2008 – Stardock announced today the Gamer’s Bill of Rights: a statement of principles that it hopes will encourage the PC game industry to adopt standards that are more supportive of PC gamers. The document contains 10 specific “rights” that video game enthusiasts can [...]

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I promise I will not turn that into a habit, but after quite a few months and more than 100 entries in this blog, I feel like it is time for a little rant indepth analysis summary of where we stand. I mean of where Linux stands as [...]

What if Unix, Windows, Linux and OSX were houses?
UNIX is the old Victorian Mansion that was the first of it’s kind and set the standard for all things to come.
It is still considered one of the most solid and stable houses ever built since it was build by compliant construction practices.
It’s incredibly solid foundation allows it [...]

Windows Software
Linux Equivalent/Alternative

3D Studio Max

K-3D (http://www.k-3d.org/)

Wings 3D (http://www.wings3d.com/)

Art of Illusion (http://www.artofillusion.org/)

Blender (http://www.blender.org/)

ACDSee

GTKSee (http://gtksee.berlios.de/)

gthumb (http://gthumb.sf.net/)

KuickShow (http://kuickshow.sourceforge.net/)

ShowImg (http://www.jalix.org/projects/showimg/)

Gwenview (http://gwenview.sourceforge.net/)

GQview (http://gqview.sourceforge.net/)

Eye of GNOME (http://www.gnome.org/projects/eog/)

Adobe Acrobat Reader

okular (http://kpdf.kde.org/okular/)

Xpdf (http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/)

Evince (http://www.gnome.org/projects/evince/)

ePDFView (http://trac.emma-soft.com/epdfview/)

KPDF (http://kpdf.kde.org/)

Adobe Audition

Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/)

Adobe Illustrator

Skencil (http://www.skencil.org/)

Inkscape (http://www.inkscape.org/)

Karbon14 (http://www.koffice.org/karbon/)

Xara Xtreme for Linux (http://www.xaraxtreme.org/)

Adobe PageMaker

Scribus (http://www.scribus.net/)

Adobe PhotoAlbum

F-Spot (http://f-spot.org/Main_Page)

KPhotoAlbum (http://www.kphotoalbum.org/)

digiKam (http://www.digikam.org/)

Adobe Photoshop

CinePaint (http://www.cinepaint.org/)

Gimpshop (http://www.gimpshop.com/download.shtml)

Krita (http://www.koffice.org/krita/)

GIMP (http://www.gimp.org/)

Adobe Premier

PiTiVi (http://www.pitivi.org/wiki/Main_Page)

LiVES (http://lives.sourceforge.net/)

Kino (http://www.kinodv.org/)

Cinelerra (http://cvs.cinelerra.org/)

kdenlive (http://kdenlive.sourceforge.net/)

Jahshaka [...]