http://www.lanterntorch.com Creative Illumination Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:11:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en According to Blackfilm.com, the new A-Team film will feature The Game playing B.A. Baracus. I actually feel kind of sorry for The Game. Maybe he is a good actor. Maybe he will even get the attitude down and have the perfect mohawk and over-the-top jewelry. Maybe he will drive the ... http://www.lanterntorch.com/the-dunya/981/rapper-the-game-to-play-ba-baracus/ I just installed KDE 4.3 RC 1, and it is fantastic. This will undoubtedly be the best KDE release to date and will answer a lot of the complaints about missing features and stability that people have raised. The drop shadow glitches from 4.2 are gone from Kwin, but ... http://www.lanterntorch.com/technology/979/the-plasmoid-problem/ Many KDE 3 users depended on Krun, a simple yet effective application used to execute commands. Executed simply by pressing “Alt-F2″, it was much easier to start applications using it, rather than navigating through a launch menu or opening a terminal window. The only catch with Krun was that you ... http://www.lanterntorch.com/technology/978/10-awesome-features-of-krunner-in-kde-4/ Four weeks after Ruper Murdoch tried to kill our fun by announcing that many of the newspapers you (not I) read will soon charge for access to certain online content, his new attack dog (a.k.a. chief digital officer), Jonathan Miller, claims that Hulu will start charging for content as well.Forget ... http://www.lanterntorch.com/technology/975/news-corp-wants-to-ruin-our-lives/ Dual monitor setup in Linux has never been easier. While methods such as the xinerama extension sometimes drive people insane, using RandR (Resize and Rotate) is quick and painless. This will allow you to use both monitors as one big screen instead of two identical ones (cloning). Follow these simple ... http://www.lanterntorch.com/technology/967/how-to-setup-dual-monitors-with-xrandr/ The KOffice team is extremely pleased to finally announce version 2.0.0 of KOffice. This release marks the end of more than 3 years of work to port KOffice to Qt 4 and the KDE 4 libraries and, in some cases, totally rewrite the engine of the KOffice applications. Read the rest... http://www.lanterntorch.com/technology/free-software/958/koffice-20-released/ I have been hearing more Muslims everyday talking about "reforming" Islam.  I have read article after article (that means two articles), claiming that Islam is in the beginning, middle, or end of a reformation.  Really?  Reza Aslan, author of No god but God reportedly said this: I believe we are living ... http://www.lanterntorch.com/al-islam/949/islamic-reformation/ One of the weird things I have noticed about myself is that when I maximize my web browser, I feel trapped.  Now that I have two monitors, I have been trying to adjust myself to the reality that I can have a maximized browser and still have an entire open ... http://www.lanterntorch.com/afterthought/948/web-browser-maximiphobia/ I can remember turning on my computer, dialing into IndyNet, and opening the World Wide Web inside of a terminal window.  My first web experience was through a text browser.  At $10 a month, that was all I could afford.  Eventually, I learned to hack it and give myself access ... http://www.lanterntorch.com/technology/940/beyond-web-20-and-the-information-age/ You would be hard-pressed to go anywhere or even watch television without hearing some reference to “Twitter”, “tweets”, or “tweeting”.  From your cousin in Iowa to Shaquille O’Neal, all types of people from all walks of life have taking a liking to Twitter. Whether or not Twitter will become a technological ... http://www.lanterntorch.com/technology/933/the-best-kde-twitter-client/