Watch the SOPA Livestream

Watch the SOPA Livestream:

Interested in watching a (not-so-bad-looking) Congressional staffer read SOPA language into the record? Listen in here: http://keepthewebopen.com/sopa Snarky comments welcome in the GP Shoutbox.

EnthusLife Podcast ep 9 Part 1 Off the Rails With Bacon or Chuck E Cheese for My Birthday

EnthusLife Podcast ep 9 Part 1 Off the Rails With Bacon or Chuck E Cheese for My Birthday:
The EnthusLife Crew kicks back and relaxes as @AwesomeRob029 aka @bigrob029 hosts this episode. Hilarity ensues we're so far off the rails we can't even see the track. Good times are had by all involved.

Twitter info
@bigrob029 @AwesomeRob029 @Sophisticates_4 @MajorLinux @CarbonShadow004

Show Music
Intro 1- Cold Storage
Intro 2- Flight of the Conchords- Sugar Lumps
Break 1 & 2- Joverdose- Chuck E Cheese For My Birthday
Break 3- LMFAO- Hot Dog (after bacon convo)
Break 4- Match Game Intro
Outro- Camp Lo- Luchini

Game Info
Forza 4- GELR (GameEnthusLifeRacing)
Battlefield 3- GELN (Search GameEnthus on the Battlelog)

BigRob's Youtube Page
www.youtube.com/bigrob029

EnthusLife Podcast ep 9 Part 2 Still Off The Rails or The Yuuup Has It

EnthusLife Podcast ep 9 Part 2 Still Off The Rails or The Yuuup Has It:
The continuation of the epic episode 9 of the EnthusLife podcast. Hilarity ensues as we continue our journey off the rails.

Twitter Info
@AwesomeRob029 @bigrob029 @Sophisticates_4 @MajorLinux @CarbonShadow004 @EnthusLife @EnthusFitness @EnthusNation @EssenceOfEvents

Show Music
Break 1- Kris Kross- Jump
Break 2- DrMario Drop (DJ Awesome Rob enthused mix)
Outro- Daft Punk- Robot Rock

BigRob's youtube page
www.youtube.com/bigrob029

Game Crews
Forza4- GELR (GameEnthusLifeRacing)
Battlefield 3- GELN (Search GameEnthus in the BattleLog)

CyanogenMod Team Wasting No Time After Ice Cream Sandwich’s Source Code Was Released

CyanogenMod Team Wasting No Time After Ice Cream Sandwich’s Source Code Was Released:

With the recent release of the precious Ice Cream Sandwich source code, the CyanogenMod team took off like dogs at the race once the gate’s are opened.  The team is hoping to get CyanogenMod9 up and running on some lucky Android device in about two months time.

..and we’re off. check back in 2 months  #cm9  #ics

The above quote was released on Cyanogen’s official Twitter account today and we can tell it sure got some folks speculating as to which device might be the first to get it and which are to follow.  Feel free to sound off in the comments below as to which device you’d like to see the OS gracefully hijack.  We’re looking forward to seeing what the team can do with this and which devices it can manage to pack the awesome OS into.  Stay tuned as you’ll be the first to know once they announce the “chosen one”.

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CyanogenMod Team Wasting No Time After Ice Cream Sandwich’s Source Code Was Released

These huge numbers show the miracle behind your life today [Infographic]

These huge numbers show the miracle behind your life today [Infographic]:

A fascinating new infographic from visual.ly looks at the probability behind the existence of each and every person in the world today. If you’re alive and reading this post, then congratulations on achieving what is statistically near-impossible.

The overview explains:

What are the odds that you exist, as you, today? Author Ali Binazir attempts to quantify the probability that you came about and exist as you today and reveals that the odds of you existing are almost zero.

You can see a full size version on the visual.ly site here

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This is one of those examples in which maths and data can put that which may seem ordinary on a daily basis into greater perspective.

If these numbers got you thinking, why not take a moment to go to a quiet place to reflect or ask someone what the meaning of life really is.

[Image courtesy of Yaro / Shutterstock.com]

Saving Windows: Battle to Save My Windows Partition (Day 1)

Saving Windows: Battle to Save My Windows Partition (Day 1): "

As you guys may or may not know, I am a Linux supporter. A HUGE LINUX SUPPORTER! Now knowing that, the next thing may shock you.  The majority of the computing that I do is in Windows (Windows 7 to be exact).

Now, I know what you must be thinking: “How can I guy who even has Linux in his name even dare work with Windows?”  There is an explanation to this: I’ve become attached to a few ways getting things to work due to the software provided to me.  Basically, due to certain situations, be it classes or devices that I own, I needed Windows to run software that just couldn’t be run on Linux, like iTunes (another gasp! I used to own an iPod Touch before switching to Android).  Another reason why I’m trying to hold on to Windows is because of Android.  I can’t learn to develop Android apps on my personal device without Windows (at the moment).

So, now with the reason why Windows even exists on my computer has been explained, we can continue with the rescuing.

Lately, I’ve been having some issues with the stability of Windows due to its installation age.  Naturally, when you cleanly install an OS, its going to be snapping and its performance will decline with use and other applications installed on it.

Some people say that you should reinstall your OS every six months and that seems to work but halts productivity for at least a week.  Linux, on the other hand, doesn’t have issues like that (that I noticed).  Plus, with updates coming down constantly and a major OS release every six months (at least for Fedora and Ubuntu).

I’m trying to break that cycle by aggressively attacking any performance issues that may be plaguing my system, whether it be malicious code or my own doing.

Day 1

For the first day, I decided that I would do a whole system scan for viruses and malware using Microsoft Security Essentials.  This actually proved to be a bad idea as I ran it in the middle of the day.  You see, Windows is my main OS which pretty much means all my media (documents, pictures, music, videos, etc.) is on this partition and when scanning each file (seemingly bit per bit), this can take all your processing ability away and for a very long time.

Good news is, after I waited all day for the scan to complete, it reported that there were no viruses detected on my system.

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Guess this is a good a time as any to start writing again…

Well, ladies and gentlemen…I’m back!!  For the 3 of you that actually follow this blog, I know its been some time since I posted anything original.  Between school work, the little work I actually do, and just plain laziness, I really haven’t been on my game as of late.

Well, apparently the last update I made was two months ago when I announced the official launch of ThinkTux Tux Spins.  Since then, I’ve been working on the site, little by little (I might write and update soon).  But any big updates to the project have been impeded by my attendance in summer school (and that’s another post in itself).

But for those who were wondering if I was actually alive and not replaced by a news aggregating bot, I’m alive and the bot no longer is…

-Next time, Space Cowboy…