I have a single core AMD Sempron 145 processor with 2 gig ram with Windows 7 installed. If I want to switch to Linux I just use my USB pen drive and I launch my Puppy Lucid OS in just a few seconds.

I watch youtube videos with seemingly higher bandwidth than I normally do with windows 7. Not only that, my applications pops up faster on Linux than it does on windows.

Amazing right, maybe you should give it a try. And also try Puppy Linux it works much faster than Windows or Ubuntu. Its easy to install and whats best is that it is portable.

HD videos run smoothly and it uses only a fraction of my CPU and memory.

First, you need to download Google Chrome Beta not the usual Google Chrome. Here is the link.

Second, go to this site and search for “Watch youtube without Flash.”

Third, install the script and off you go. Its that easy you don’t have to install greasemonkey.

Have fun.

Well, I decided to do something about it. Good thing I am using Linux (running side by side with M$ crap). You see here is the thing. Whenever you start watching FLV files, it is actually buffering the video into your hard drive. Using VLC or Mplayer (not the M$ Media Player) you can actually watch it (without the choppiness) while it is buffering. If you have a decent connection you can actually watch the video without having to buffer it too long. In fact it is almost simultaneous.

So lets start with a movie say from “youtube” or “novamov.” So you pick out a movie you like, start streaming, and when it does, “pause” it. then look for that folder were your browser is buffering the flv file. Most often, it is found on the “temp” file. In the case of ubuntu it is in /File system/temp. It’s not hard to spot the FLV file because it starts with the word “Flash.” Right click on the file and run it using VLC, then wala you are now watching a decent video with out the choppiness. Smooth and it doesnt eat up your resources just like what Flash Players do all the time.

Have fun.

We all know that when you download videos from youtube, you can watch it using your native vedio player without the lag and choppiness. Well right now I can watch it directly without downloading it. Thanks to VLC Mozilla Plugin and Greasemonkey. VLC plugin is available when you install VLC while greasemonkey is available as an add-on to you mozilla browser.

First, install greasemonkey from the mozilla site and then restart Firefox. Then (if you havent done it yet) download and install VLC Media player (you can also use a native plugin player like totem, windows media player or mplayer) and dont forget to put a check mark on vlc-mozilla plugin on the installation wizard.

Then go to this site and look for “Youtube w/o flash.” It is a userscript that allows you to watch youtube video using VLC – plugin. It is much faster and it gets rid of the choppiness.

Have fun.

The default windows manager is JWM (Joe’s Window Manager) but I have tried other window managers i.e. XFCE, openbox, fluxbox and lately KDE. Comparing this to kubuntu, it is twice faster and more responsive on the same machine btw.

Installation was very easy. I just downloaded unetbootin and installed puppy ISO here, restart my computer, switch to unetbootin and there you go KDE Puppy right out of the box.

Give it a shot guys, its the best KDE in town. By the way, I have tried playing DOTA on puppy, it does the job better than Windows or ubuntu.

It is the Lord who gives wisdom; from Him come knowledge and understanding. He provides help and protection for those who are righteous and honest. He protects those who treat others fairly, and guards those who are devoted to Him. – Proverbs 2:6-8

So I continued reading until I came across her insights about buying “pre-foreclosed properties” wherein the owner is about to loose the property to a bank. This insight is found here. Were I quote:

“The best thing about pre foreclosures is the prices that are associated with them. In most cases, the owner has no choice but the sell the house, and therefore will listen to just about any offer that he receives. Due to this very reason, you can find pre foreclosures for sale at nearly 50% off market value. This is an ideal time to purchase, especially if you are looking to save a lot of money.”

and

“Along with the great prices you can get with pre foreclosures, you’ll also have the luxury of dealing directly with the owner – no third parties involved. This is a great advantage, with buyers being in total control of pre foreclosure sales. In the event that the home owner decides to turn down your offer and cannot find another buyer, he will lose everything. Even if you offer the owner a small price, he will be able to make a little bit of money selling the home.”

After reading through such a disgusting piece of material, I decided to write a comment which obviously wont be published for obvious reasons. And this is what I wrote.

Thank you very much for such an outstanding blog. I read through some of them and I must say that they are well crafted particularly the part about getting sweet deals out of buying pre-foreclosed properties.

I was particularly impressed when you mentioned that you can actually strike a very good deal to a tune of say 50% off the market price which you said potentially benefits the buyer/investor in the long-run (or even the short-run).

Yes indeed, but what about the other side of the coin.

Don’t you think that the poor family who has long been struggling to keep their homes and failed, stand to loose on this deal by exactly 50% of what you and your bargain hunter stand to gain?

Don’t you think that probably each and every member of this family must have spent sleepless nights worrying about how and where they are going to get their next meal much less how to keep their home from being foreclosed?

It was finally sold at 50% off the market price. Great, so thats that with the foreclosure case. But is that the end of the story? No it sure isn’t. That 50% slashed off the price could have gone a long way in starting a new life for them don’t you think so? that would have helped send the children to school, pay for rent etc. Not only that, they will forever remember the humiliation of loosing out on a deal to someone they don’t even know.

So what about them? do you think they deserve that?

“Ok Everyone just by twisting their arm a little bit more you could come up with a good deal. Buy one Take One.”

Lady no one deserves to be treated like that not even you.

I know this comment will not appear in your BLOG. You will probably delete this out even before you get to this part. But I wish you would’nt because I want to tell you how much of a hypocrite you are using the word “Praise” as part of your business name and with rays of sunlight on your logo symbolizing pureness, honesty, fairness and Godliness in all you do.

Well lady you don’t fool me one bit. You’re as greedy and selfish as your investors and bargain hunters. And you make me sick.

This is what I did to speed up my Firefox 3.5. I simply installed Adblock Plus and Flashblock. Adblock Plus disables all ads on a site while Flashblock disables all flash content on a site by default. If you wish to enable flash on a particular site all you need to do is to enable flash on that site only. That way you can choose which site to display Flash content.

How to Set up Parental Control.

Still using our squid proxy server, download dansguardian. In ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install dansguardian

After installing

gksudo mousepad /etc/dansguardian/dansguardian.conf

look for “UNCONFIGURED” and remove it, save the file then restart dansguardian.

sudo /etc/init.d/dansguardian restart

Porn materials are now blocked. Try it out.

To apply your proxy settings to a home network, configure the browsers to use your proxy server using the IP address of the server machine still using port 8080.

Heres the trick. In Firefox, there is an add-on called Adblock plus. That does the trick but only if your using Firefox. But what about Opera, Safari, IE and the others. Adblock obviously wont work.

In order to do that, you need to install a proxy server and adzapper to filter out the ads using any browser.

The following intructions applies to Ubuntu Jaunty

Squid 3 and Adzapper Installation

1. Open Synaptic Package Manager
2. Search for “squid3 and adzapper” and mark for installation,
3. Apply
4. Then your done with the installation

Configuring Squid Proxy 3 and Ad-zapper

1. On the terminal type “gksudo mousepad /etc/squid3/squid.conf” (less the quotes),
2. This pulls up the squid3 configuration file. Now at the very top, type “redirect_program /usr/bin/adzapper.wrapper” (less the quotes), and on the bottom type “cache deny all”
3. Save the file and restart squid3:  ”sudo /etc/init.d/squid restart”
4. thats about all you need to do with squid and adzapper.
5. Now you need to configure your browser to point to your proxy server.
6. In Opera its Tools->Preferences->Advanced->Net Works->Proxy Servers
7. Assign proxy settings using 127.0.0.1 as the address and 8080 as the port,
8. Visit several sites and you will notice adz being filtered out. Have fun

Source:

1. Configuring Squid and AdZapper to filter ads

It was considered an achievement indeed having to run a whole days work with just a few codes, with such accuracy never imaginable in those days. It finally came to an end one day when by some stroke of bad faith, things did not go well and finally the old tech guy had to bow out and move to another place much less than what he desired for. And this is were it all began. The old tech guy began to loose what he thought to be a craft that would never be lost. He lost it as fast as he gained it and finally he saw himself with nothing more than just a memory of what it was before. In a mere instant, everything was lost.

Days, weeks, months and years went by The old tech guy moved on and on. Nothing has changed except the drive to continuously think of better ways to do things. Programming was no longer his turf, and so the old tech guy decided to move on to what he thought was a level higher than just a mere encoder. Innovation, he said, is the key to success. And he was right, innovate, thats it. Later on he realized that the ability to think out of the box did pay off but what he didn’t know was that innovation had a price as well. The world of innovation and change are loomed with pirates and vultures waiting for dead meat to feast on. one good idea gets stolen and “re-invented.” Many Old tech fell into this and many ended up poorer because they not only lost money, they also lost their ideas.

In the end, the old tech guy had to settle for tech job teaching old ladies, from a far away land who has never heard or seen a computer in her life, learn how to use the damn computer. Or an old man who thought that the computer is a type writer. But even in this kind of job, The old tech guy managed to innovate and apply ways to do things differently. And so he did. the old tech guy found an innovative way of doing things in the work place. Ha, a sure formula to success he said. And so he was right. It was such a bright idea so much so that in no time at all, word about an old tech guy with new things in mind, reached the president and top executives. Then the boss came along, shook the old tech guy’s hands and said “Thank you.” And I never saw her again.

to be continued……