Displaying data from Ungdomar.se on your desktop

9/04/2009

If you’re not a member of the Swedish community ungdomar.se or any of the other sites from the same company (e.g. gameplayer.se) this article will be of very little use to you. However, if you are a member of said community, I will show you how to get data from there onto your desktop using a little bit of Bash magic combined with the power of Conky. Even if you don’t care about ungdomar.se, the same techniques that I’m going to show you could be used to fetch wheather information, the TV guide, stock prices, or pretty much anything else.

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How to burn Xbox 360 ISOs in Linux

8/04/2009

So you’re looking for an easy way to burn those Xbox 360 isos to a DVD in Linux? A couple of days ago I would’ve said:

Sorry pal, but if you’re looking for a graphical way to do it, I believe you’re shit out of luck. Now stop bugging me, I’m playing TeeWorlds!

Thanks to BoxBlaze, that has changed!

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