Fritzing with Linux

Fritzing is an open-source initiative to support designers, artists, researchers and hobbyists to work creatively with interactive electronics. We are creating a software and website in the spirit of Processing and Arduino, developing a tool that allows users to document their prototypes, share them with others, teach electronics in a classroom, and to create a pcb layout for professional manufacturing.

Here is a link to the download page
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hxhd4HKrWpg&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]

Introduction to Arduino Comic

Here is link to a great introduction comic book by jody culkin.

Teagueduino

Openclonk

OpenClonk is the Open source successor of the Clonk gaming series.

OpenClonk is a project dedicated to the further development of the Clonk game series. Our goal is to improve and make the real strengths of Clonk more fun to play: Bustling mining, production lines and economy, fast and fiddly melees. Another focus lies on the further enchancement of the game engine and the extensibility/modability of the game content with C4Script which has always been one of the most important features of Clonk.

Add ppa:openclonkdevteam/releaseto the system's software sources and install OpenClonk from the package manager. More detailed instructions are available at LaunchPad. The ppa has only a Maverick build, so you will have to download http://www.openclonk.org/nightly-builds/ for newer editions.

Autojump: a cd command that learns

This is great. A way to jump around from the command line. Download the install script from here via github

Disable the 'Resize Window Grippers' in Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal

To remove those ugly resize handles you just have to add the following to your ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file:

style "default-style"
{
  GtkWindow::resize-grip-height = 0
  GtkWindow::resize-grip-width = 0
}

class "GtkWidget" style "default-style"

THANKS: Patshead.com

Lexmark ripped me off

About a year ago I bought a Lexmark X2650 printer on  a store sale. When it came to replacing my ink cartridge I was in for a shock. Not only are the cartridges the same price as what I paid for the printer, which works out to R350, and thus very expensive, but there appears to be no solution to refilling the old cartridge which have a chip which tells the printer that the cartridge is empty.

As yet no way to reset the chip. I feel like trashing the printer and never buying Lexmark ever again. However I am quite happy with the scanner facility, so now I have a scanner minus the printer.  However, somebody really needs to tell the greedy developers at Lexmark, that not everybody lives on a first world salary, and the Gillette Shower blade model doesn't work if your income is below the median and somewhere in South of the Mississippi Delta.