Techman's World...in 3D!

So recently I was using Ubuntu on my dad's computer, and decided to load my site on Firefox. You see, if you didn't know, my computer is not so good. It is 6 years old. It has lived its days....

But anyways, I was using Firefox's web inspector, and decided to tour Techman's World in 3D.

Go ahead and soak up the image below :). Click to enlarge it, because is small to fit in the blog post.

 Oh, and this was in Intel Graphics. Cool isn' t it?

Linus Torvalds Speaks on 'Why is Linux not competitive on desktop?'

A few days, when Linus was at a conference in Finland, he did more things then flip off and drop an F-BOMB on NVIDIA, he also answered other questions and gave his opinion on other things.


In the video below, Linus was asked why Linux was not competitive on the desktop. He answers this question below.

600 Posts of Techman's World

Hello all, today Techman's World has reached yet another milestone...the 600th post (this post is actually post 601).

Through this series of posts, Techman's World has gone though many updates, most notable is the nuking of the navbar (my admin tools are at the bottom of the page now), and the removal of the Welcome bar, and replaced with my page bar. I have also added a Techman's World about page, so now everyone can see the history of Techman's World.

Thanks to everyone for visiting Techman's World; I appreciate it.

Site Update

Hello everyone. Today I have a sorta mild update to the site. I replaced my clunky welcome bar with a page bar at the top of the page. Here you'll see all of my current pages, before the pages were only accessed via a link. The Home tab is for the blog, the Software page is for my software that I have made and choose to share to the public, the Mobile tab is a link to the mobile version of my site, and the About Techman's World is about Techman's World. That page is still being updated, so right now you'll see no text except (Page still being updated).

I am excited about this. Please let me know of your feedback below.

Update: I have added some info the the About Techman's World page. I have no comments on that page right now, though. I don't think this is a good idea for a page like that. Anyone can tell me otherwise in the comments below :).

Microsoft Surface FAIL during presentation.

Ah, Microsoft, we love you...for your screw ups.

 And what do you know...IE caused the tablet to lock up.

My favorite Techno Artist: 009 Sound System

I am not sure if people remember or not about the posts I first posted when I first founded Techman's World in December of 2011. By the way, I was excited about making this blog, I had been working on getting one a few months before Techman's World was created.


Anyways, I talked about my favorite anti virus, favorite PlayStation podcast, and so on.


I am a geek. Very obvious. I have a technology centered life and website. I do listen to other types of music, such as old school rap (anyone know Slick Rick?), some rock, the 80's (I love the disco era, good music came out of that era), the 90's (in general), and very minor 40's. Bing Crosby's Swinging on a Star ring a bell to anyone?


Those music genres have multiple artists that fill up the genre. There are many artists in Techno/Electronic Music, but I only really listen to one artists (or project if that's the way you look at it) -- the 009 Sound System.


I love every song that has ever come out of the 009 Sound System, a first for me anyways.


009 Sound System was created by Alexander Perls. He has a field/career in music. His Wiki is below. (More content after the iframe)



I am a fan of his old style of 009 Sound System music (the original 009 Sound System album is an example), and his new style singles. I have taken the latest singles and made it into an album, called 009 Sound System New Singles for my personal liking.


One of 009 Sound System's songs "Dreamscape" has even been declared YouTube's national anthem by its community, because that song is in a lot of videos. I suggest you look into 009 Sound System if you are a fan of Electronic music/Techno, or just want to try something new.


By the way, does anyone want me to do more feature's of my personal likings?

Linus Torvalds (creator of Linux) to NVIDIA: F*ck You!

Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux kernel, as opened up many cans on numerous people and distros, but this one definitely stands out. And for the obvious reasons - obviously.

Linus goes on to say in an event in his native Finland that NVIDIA is "The single worst company" that they work with.

NVIDIA does have a history of Linux. They are most notible for making graphics cards, but they are also in the ARM mobile space, making the Tegra series of processors.

Here is a snippet from Wired. They wrote an excellent article.:

"Late last week, during an event in his native Finland, Torvalds went so far as to hurl an expletive at the chipmaker and flip it the proverbial bird, and when we contacted the company about this on Monday, it could not be reached to comment. But the company has now responded with a brief statement that seeks to explain why it doesn’t work to include its Linux hardware drivers in the core open source code for the OS.
Basically, the company prefers to offer its own proprietary drivers for running its graphics hardware with Linux, rather than rolling driver code into the Linux kernel. “While we understand that some people would prefer us to provide detailed documentation on all of our GPU internals, or be more active in Linux kernel community development discussions, we have made a decision to support Linux on our GPUs by leveraging Nvidia common code, rather than the Linux common infrastructure,” reads a canned statement from Nvidia. “While this may not please everyone, it does allow us to provide the most consistent GPU experience to our customers, regardless of platform or operating system.”

WARNING: Potentially Inappropriate Content Below!!!

This is a video of when Linus dropped the F-BOMB, and the shot the bird at NVIDIA. What is the most funniest is when the rest of the crowd laughed after he said what he said.

I recommend you check out the full Wired article, because it covers this alot more in detail.

UPDATE: And here is nice wallpaper :)

Feel free the post a comment below.

Google Chrome Frame is now enabled on this site.

Hello all. Today I have a slight site change put into effect, and this time it is for Google Chrome Frame. If you do not know what that is, I suggest you go here.

Google Chrome Frame is a plugin for IE6 and up that allows you to use the new web technologies, as well as bring Chrome's speedy rendering engines to Internet Explorer. My site never really shined in IE, it did better in webkit and Gecko browsers. Well now if you have Chrome Frame installed, the site will now render in Chrome Frame. This is real good, as you will now be able to experience this site at its best. If you had some "funky" issues with IE, that is due to it being IE, and its lack of compliant standards. IE9 is a great improvement over IE8, but it is still not there yet. I have seen that IE10 is also getting good, but I'll have to see after Windows 8 comes out and IE10 is released to Windows 7.

The good part about Chrome Frame is that it does not replace IE's rendering engines, it is triggered manually by the site itself. So existing sites made for IE will not break with this plugin installed.

Chrome Frame keeps updated along with Chrome by using its Google Update process.

So if you are a web developer, insert the following meta tag to enable Chrome Frame, replacing the brackets with angle brackets (< and >):
[meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="chrome=1"]

Let me know of your feedback below if you use Google Chrome Frame.

Disqus 2012 Released to the Public!

It is finally here! Disqus 2012 is released to the public. It was in public beta for a month now, but now it is officially out. Disqus did a big post about it on their blog, so here is their blog post below.


I am using Disqus 2012 on my site right now, actually for about 3 weeks now. I have been gathering feedback on it, so far so good. I'm still waiting for media embed support and CSS support.

Here is the post below.

Add Movie Review Search to the Ubuntu Dash

Want to know of a movie is worth watching? A new scope for Ubuntu’s Unity Dash aims to make finding the answer to that question super easy.


If you are looking for reviews for movies, this is for you, as I already have mentioned earlier.


This lens/scope is fresh out of the development press, and is good to get. Its search is powered by Rotten Tomatoes.

Rotten Tomatoes is one of the webs leading movie review sites and is famous overall for delivering a ‘fresh’ or ‘rotten’ rating based on the opinion of leading and professional movie critics.


Oddly, for a scope built around data from Rotten Tomatoes, search results do not display the ‘freshness rating’ for which the site is famed. Instead it offers up the average star rating based on user-submitted reviews.

Usually, user reviews are taken to be more considered by users on the site than the professional reviews. Does this really matter? Not really.

Install Movie Review Scope in Ubuntu 12.04

Since this scope/lens is new, it is not yet in the Ubuntu Software Center. Don't worry, I'll tell you how to get this.

It can be installed, along with the ’Utilities Lens’ is needs so that it can display data in the Dash, from the Scope Packagers PPA.

The PPA be added by entering the following command in a new Terminal window, or by manually adding the part in bold to your Software Sources.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:scopes-packagers/ppa

After adding you can install the Scope and Lens by running:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install unity-lens-utilities unity-scope-rottentomatoes


Once installed, you have to log out and then log back in to refresh the dash with the new lens/scope.


If you give the lens a try be sure to leave your critical opinion of how ‘fresh’ or ‘rotten’ it is in the comment space below.


Via: OMG! Ubuntu!

Metro-style Hotmail turns up in leaked screenshots

Lately, Microsoft has been Metro happy as some people say. Recently, Bing got a metro makeover. You can test it out right now actually. This time around, Hotmail is next in line for a Metro redesign. If a set of leaked screenshots obtained by WinFuture are any indication, however, it looks like the nearly sixteen-year-old email service could soon be getting one of its biggest redesigns to date. As you'd expect, it all looks very Metro, but also very unfinished, with a number of features reportedly still missing or not working properly. Of course, there's no indication when or if it'll actually roll out to the millions of Hotmail users (though the Windows 8 launch would provide a convenient fit), but there's plenty more screenshots where this one came from at the source link below.


Source: WinFuture

Bryan Lunduke's Software Goes Open Source!

The other day, Brian Lunduke made a post at his website that if he can get $4000 donated to him, he would release all of his software, including Illumination Software Creator under the GPL, making it free and open source. In addition to just software, you also get his games.


Well he did reach his goal, and now his software is going open source. Right now he is getting everything in order, but soon you will be able to get the source and all of its glory.


Instead of trying to re-invent the wheel and trying to retype all of the info, I'm embedding both posts inside iframes. On a side note, do you like my styling that I did with the iframes?

Hubble Space Telescope reveals unavoidable collision between our galaxy and Andromeda

The Hubble team over at NASA has confirmed what it's suspected for a while: that our galaxy is destined for a direct collision with Andromeda, creating the birth of "Milkomeda." Don't expect to see this event because the fireworks won't go off for another four billion years, and last another two billion after that. 


In addition, Scientists also predict that the earth won't be threatened thanks to the sheer amount of empty space between stars, but we could lose the sun as its flung out to some other part of the new system.