October 2003

Here's an easy (in the geek sense of the word) way to install Microsoft's TrueType core fonts on Linux.

Let us not forget that sixty-five years ago today, Earth was attacked by Mars.

If the default clock on your computer isn't realistic enough, try this one. Requires Flash.

15 Things to do at K-Mart while your wife is taking her sweet time.

QuirksMode "contains more than 150 pages with CSS and JavaScript tips and tricks, and is one of the best sources on the WWW for studying and defeating browser incompatibilities."

Visit the Neave Lab Planetarium for a look at the night sky. Requires Flash.

GKrellM provides an astounding number of monitoring options for your Linux system—as well as some cool eye candy.

Okay. Park the TARDIS and take a few minutes to read Best Practices for Time Travelers. If you're going to go tooling through the eons, it's best to know what you're doing.

Linguistics professor George Lakoff explains how conservatives use language to dominate politics.

With a copy of Knoppix, and the article System recovery with Knoppix, you'll be ready to handle just about any system recovery task you'll encounter.

Jollix is a "live CD" version of Gentoo Linux. It boots from your CD drive, and changes nothing on your hard drive. Jollix focuses on multimedia applications, including several media players and The GIMP, a Linux equivalent to Photoshop.

AdvanceCD is a bootable Linux CD that plays classic arcade games in emulation mode. There's nothing to install on your PC—just boot and start playing.

What's a window manager? Tuxfiles explains.

Could the USS Enterprise actually have survived its encounter with the Earth's atmosphere in the classic episode Tomorrow is Yesterday? Some folks at Australia's University of Queensland have decided to find out.