Silicon Gadget

This is a very short and very narrowed guide, but I am sure some of you may still find it very interesting.

Today we are going to upgrade KDE to the new version 4.3.1 on Kubuntu.

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As I promised yesterday on the “KDE 4.2.2” news, here it is the guide on how install it on Ubuntu/Kubuntu 8.10.

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As you can read on the “Guides” section, the original purpose of this site was to host some guide about computers and only collaterally IT news.

Now it ended up quite the opposite, but nevertheless why not keep trying?

While with the term “guide” I usually mean some long explanation about some complex topic, with this post I want to start to include also mini-guides on very specific topics.

Today we speak about your Facebook profile and its publicity, and more specifically its inclusion on Google and other search engines.

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While for most of the Windows software you can find an alternative program that run natively in Linux, for the game market is not so easy especially since it is more prone to the need to run exactly that game title and not a similar game.

Many games software houses are starting to follow the lead of idSoftware in making the games cross platform, but unfortunately we are still far from having all the games ported to any (major at least) platforms.

So here it is my guide on how to install and run World of Warcraft on a Linux distribution.

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Teamspeak is a popular voice chat program that allows you to have an audio conference with your friends, family, or coworkers; it is very useful especially when you need to hold a voice chat with many people at the same time.

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As promised here it is my report on the 8.04 version of (K)Ubuntu. In specific I downloaded the 64 bits version of Kubuntu (that is differentiated by Ubunutu by having KDE instead of Gnome and some other applications differences).

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One of the biggest limitation that most user have when they would like to migrate from Microsoft Windows to Linux is that some application they are too familiar with (and maybe have spent some money on to get the license) is available only for Windows. Fortunately there is Wine (http://www.winehq.org/) an Open Source (and free) implementation of the Windows API on top of X, OpenGL, and Unix.

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WARNING: this is a very old article I wrote for an old website of mine; I merely adjusted the formating to adapt it to this Wordpress blog, but I have not updated its content (not even eventual grammatical and logic errors — English is not my main language ).

Introduction

I hope you can find this mini-guide useful. It just contains some hints and tips about KOTOR and it isn’t a full walkthrough. Also I am not trying to illustrate the best ways to create your character and play the game, since I’m still not experienced enough on KOTOR and also because the best character/game play depends on your taste. Read the rest of this entry »