Gparted is prettier and easier to use than Fdisk since it’s a graphical user interface with intuitive features, therefore it’s a welcome sight for new Linux users.  Hint:  once Gparted is installed onto LiveCD environment, it’s existed inside RAM only, because rebooting the LiveCD, you would reset LiveCD environment back to the default, out of the box settings again.  This action removes Gparted as if you had never installed Gparted, ever.

After you have created new partition table for your brand new hard disk, you only have to open up a terminal, become root, and then type in the command {installer} to fire up the installer manager’s graphical user interface.  At the installer’s graphical user interface, you just have to read the options it presents to you carefully and follow through the onscreen instruction within the installer manager to complete the installation process of Sabayon Linux.  As now, Sabayon Linux is at version number 8.  Once you had installed Sabayon Linux, make sure you remove the LiveCD and reboot your computer so you can boot into Grub and from Grub into Sabayon Linux.

Basically, using Sabayon Linux is pretty much similar to how you use Gentoo.  So, your first task is to make sure your Internet is working within Sabayon Linux.  Once the connection to the Internet has been established, you can begin the update process for Sabayon Linux.  How?

1. Open up a terminal, become root, and type in {emerge –sync}
2. When emerge –sync is done, type in {layman -S}
3. If the system asks you to do emerge portage, then you should do so. How?  Type in the command, {emerge portage} into terminal as root.

So, what on earth is emerge?  Well, emerge is sort of like Yum on Fedora, Yast on openSUSE, apt-get on Ubuntu, and so on.  Basically, emerge is based on Portage.  Portage is the real package manager behind the scene which allows emerge to call it to interact with source packages.  So, when you do the command emerge –sync, you’re actually telling emerge to update Portage package manager’s source archives/packages.  You can view emerge as command line tool which interacts with Portage (i.e., the package manager).

In my opinion, it seems Gentoo and Sabayon Linux rely on source packages and not binary packages, therefore installing software onto Gentoo or Sabayon Linux would be slower than doing the same thing on Ubuntu or Debian based Linux distributions.  Installing a source package usually requires the computer system to compile the source package first before the actual installation would begin.  Ubuntu or Debian based Linux distribution uses binary packages more often than source packages, therefore installing software on Ubuntu or Debian based Linux distribution is going to be faster as everything had already been defined.  Nonetheless, I think installing from source packages does have an advantage over binary packages, because installing source packages would only define the necessary features and variables and elements of a software that fit a specific computer environment.  This way the installed software might perform better and be more stable than otherwise.

So how do you go about installing software on Sabayon Linux (i.e., same for Gentoo)?  You do the following.

1. Let say you want to install ClamAV onto Sabayon Linux, you would open up a terminal.
2. Become root!
3. Type in the command {emerge clamav}.

Let say now you want to remove ClamAV from your Sabayon Linux system, but how?  You do the following.

1. Open up a terminal!
2. Become root!
3. Type in the command {emerge -c clamav}

In summary, using Sabayon Linux is very similar to how you would use Gentoo.  Obviously, if you never have played with Gentoo before, you might want to try Sabayon Linux out first since installing Sabayon Linux is easier than installing Gentoo.  Remember, it’s not that straight forward when you try to install Sabayon Linux onto a brand new hard disk, because you have to go through the process of creating a brand new partition table for your brand new hard disk.  VirtualBox users should go through the same process as users who want to install Sabayon Linux onto brand new hard disk, because VirtualBox users would have a brand new virtual hard disk when they create a brand new virtual machine.  When done installing Sabayon Linux, you should learn how to use emerge command lines to update Portage package manager, install source packages, and remove source packages.  Other than these necessary command lines and procedures, users should be able to use Sabayon Linux with ease since most things are accessible through graphical user interfaces.

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According to Techradar’s Steve Jobs was ‘deceptive’ says FBI file article, the FBI has released Steve Jobs file, and so you can now either go read or download this file at vault.fbi.gov/steve-jobs/steve-jobs-part-01-of-01/view.  The file is around 3.9 MB which is huge for just being a PDF file (at least to me).  Anyhow, according to Techradar, Steve Jobs was under investigation by the FBI for he was considered to be nominated for a high profile government position which had something to do with George H.W. Bush’s administration (i.e., the White House).  Again, according to Techradar, FBI found Steve Jobs to be deceptive.

So, in a way if you had read Steve Jobs’ biography which was written by Walter Isaacson with the title “Steve Jobs,” you may as well want to read the FBI file on Steve Jobs to compare the two to see if there is any discrepancy.  Sure, it might not be necessary to do so, but if you’re interested in learning more on Steve Jobs, how the man was and still is being worshiped by so many in the tech industry, I guess digging into the FBI file on Steve Jobs might shed some more light on what you think you already know about the man himself.  You might also want to be diligent too on judging the man from the FBI file, because it might be that the FBI could not have been entirely correct, and the same would go for Steve Jobs’ biography.  Why?  In truth, nobody would probably know Steve Jobs better than himself, therefore you can only know what you’re being fed to read.

I find that it’s quite interesting to see Steve Jobs, just a man of building a tech giant, has been the talk of the town since he made his few first headlines back in the day.  Even though he is now rest in peace, the talk of the town apparently is still buzzing about him, still.  They talk of him as if they’re worshipping him, isn’t this quite fascinating?  Some even seeing him as a celebrity even though the man wasn’t a celebrity.  Yes, you might agree why he is being worshipped or being seen as a famous dead celebrity too, because you are willing to spend lot of money on his products still.  Nonetheless, I forgot who but someone had pointed out Bill Gates has done much more than Steve Jobs in term of making the world better and so Bill Gates should be the one to be worshipped of and not Steve Jobs.  This person probably was talking about how Bill & Melinda foundation has changed the world.  I believe, Bill & Melinda foundation was found by Bill Gates and his wife.  I have heard how Bill & Melinda foundation has been involved with projects that have huge positive impacts on the world such as allowing the children of the poorest nations to have access to much needed vaccines.

With Steve Jobs is no longer with us, his company is continuing making huge gains to which Amazon and other competitors are very much like to see Apple stumbles.  Just recently, Amazon has released a commercial to point out how expensive iPad has been.  The lady in the commercial said to the man, even with her Kindle which could be read in sunlight and the other two Kindle Fires put together would still be cheaper than the man’s iPad.  The man was embarrassed and asked her who would be sitting in the empty seat next to her, and she said it was her husband.  The commercial ended gradually as it showed the man left in embarrassment and the prices of the regular Kindle ($199) and Kindle Fires ($79) appeared to confirm what the lady in the commercial had said.

Source:  http://www.techradar.com/news/computing/apple/steve-jobs-was-deceptive-says-fbi-file-1062235?src=rss&attr=all

Screenshot of Launchpad was taken from Vinh Nguyen's Macbook Pro!

Mac OS X Lion’s Launchpad sometimes can be very buggy.  In my case, I saw an app appears twice in my Launchpad.  Nonetheless, this app could not be removed from Launchpad since it was downloaded and installed outside of the App Store.  So, even I had tried to refresh the Launchpad, the app refused to be removed from the Launchpad.  The whole idea of removing the app from Launchpad is to stop the app to appear twice in the Launchpad.  Once the app is removed from the Launchpad, one can always drag the same app back into Launchpad, but this time it won’t appear twice!  For those who are worrying that removing an app from Launchpad might actually uninstall the app, it’s not so!

Anyhow, enough with my ranting, and here is the solution.  You need to enter the command line (sqlite3 ~/Library/Application\ Support/Dock/*.db “DELETE from apps WHERE title=’APPNAME’;” && killall Dock) and replace the parameter where it says title=’APPNAME’ with the name of the app that you’ve wanted to remove.  So for an example, if you want to remove Spotify from Launchpad, you type in (sqlite3 ~/Library/Application\ Support/Dock/*.db “DELETE from apps WHERE title=’Spotify’;” && killall Dock).  Once you have done the removing of the app from the Launchpad, you might want to go back into Finder > Applications and drag the app you have removed from Launchpad back into Launchpad (i.e., appearing on the Dock).  Remember, doing this correctly, the same app won’t appear twice again inside your Launchpad.

Source:  http://osxdaily.com/2012/01/05/remove-apps-from-launchpad/

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I’m not sure how Solve for X forum would be able to encourage and arrange the average folks who just happen to have brilliant ideas to come together and discuss the stuffs of fantasies that might just fly in real world, but as Steve Jobs’ Apple commercial “Think Different” has been promoting that the crazy ones might be just the kind of people that would positively change the world.  Solve for X is a project which Google has been working on.  Just now Google has released Solve for X’s website and videos.  The website is at wesolveforx.com.  The video right after the break introduces you to Google’s Solve for X project.

Perhaps, Google’s Solve for X might only reach out to the people who may have brilliant ideas to come together and promote what might change the world.  For an example, the X might be something down to earth as finding clean water for the poorest nations to something up in space as in starting a space voyage for humankind.  You never know!  Nonetheless, I don’t know for sure how different Solve for X might be if one compares it against TED.

I hope Solve for X would allow the average folks as your next door neighbor (or even yourself) to participate in the project somehow.  You never know someone out there, perhaps your next door neighbor or even yourself might just happen to have crazy idea that might change the world in a very big way!  Nonetheless, it seems Solve for X does include average folks in its equation somewhat as it allows you to post your own Solve for X talks using Google Plus.  In truth, I haven’t tried to do such a thing, therefore I don’t even know how one would be able to use Google Plus to start a Solve for X talk!  Do you?

Source:  http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/02/06/2237259/google-solve-for-x-website-goes-live?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign
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Some people might not know that defragging an SSD can be very bad.  Actually, a specific SSD can be worn out faster than usual if someone has defragged it too often.  Anyhow, in the video right after the break, I’ll touch on why it is so!  For the bonus I show you how to turn off the Windows 7′s automatic defragmentation schedule for all hard drives, and then I also show you how to manually defrag the traditional hard drives.

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Don’t ask me, but I’m not too clear on how one man’s iMessages has got onto another iPhone which clearly belonged to someone else, consequently allowing a stranger to basically see every single iMessage text which had been sent from this man.  This story is being reported by Gizmodo.  Gizmodo suggested there was a bug in relation to how Genius Bar technicians proceed in swapping SIM card somehow to fix an iPhone, but the end result was the tethering of the iMessage data of a SIM card onto the iPhone which it wasn’t belonged to.  Somewhat unclear of how the bug actually had happened, but this whole mess has allowed one iPhone owner to unintentionally see every iMessage text of another iPhone owner.  Gizmodo went as far as posting some pictures and iMessages of the man who got spied on unintentionally.

Source:  http://gizmodo.com/5880593/the-apple-bug-that-let-us-spy-on-a-total-strangers-iphone

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Cnet reported Passware, password recovery company, has claimed that FileVault 2 for Mac could be broken under or around 40 minutes.  In case you have never used Mac before, FileVault 2 is similar to TrueCrypt and Windows’ BitLocker.  These three major popular encryption software help computer users to securely wipe (i.e., format hard drives, partitions, external drives, etc…) and then encrypt hard drives and the likes.

Using encryption technology supposes to be helping computer users to secure their data, but it seems companies such as Passware do have ways around the encryption technology after all.  Nonetheless, since we now know encryption software are vulnerable, we can at least understand that relying on encryption software alone to protect our most precious data might not be enough.  This way we only have ourselves to blame and be angry at when we’re not actually going to the extend to protect our precious data beyond the deploying of encryption software.

To the best of my knowledge, I think most software that are designed to break encryptions (i.e., encrypted data) need to have access to the physical machines before such software can actually decrypt the data.  I wonder will this be the case for Passware’s claim too.  If it’s, then as how it has always been so; computer users best protect their precious data by physically secure their machines better.  This way, hackers have to jump more than one hoop to actually attain your precious data.

In the end, I think security is at best when wise computer users go to the extend in deploying whatever that is necessary to protect their computer data, that’s if such computer data are that important to some folks.  For now, let hope Apple, TrueCrypt, and Microsoft can soon come up with better encryption software so computer users know they can rely on encryption technology to protect their data better.  Let hope Passware isn’t claiming to have the ability to decrypt data from the cloud also, because such a scenario might be horrible for people who rely on encryptions to protect their data in the cloud.  So far, I don’t think this is possible yet.

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• http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-57369983-263/filevault-2-easily-decrypted-warns-passware/?part=rss&subj=latest-news&tag=title

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Anyhow, my problem was I had removed a program manually, but for some strange reasons I could not remove this program from Add or Remove Programs list (i.e., from Control Panel >> Programs >> Uninstall a program).  I went into Registry and removed all the entries that belonged to this specific program, and it refused to remove itself from Add or Remove Programs list.  I downloaded CCleaner and used it to fix Windows Registry, but the program would relentlessly refuse to remove itself from Add or Remove Programs list.  Well, as you already know what I had told you earlier, Fixit did it!  Yep, with Fixit, I was able to remove this specific program from my Add or Remove Programs list.  The link to Fixit is:

• http://support.microsoft.com/mats/Program_Install_
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I know this is old news, but I like to rant on anyway!  With Blender, you don’t really have to pay for super, super expensive 3D animation software to be able to create great 3D animated art works and films.  If you don’t believe me, all you have to do is just take a glimpse at various snapshots of famous works by various companies in the short film clip right after the break.  The snapshots of various beautifully crafted 3D artworks and films were essentially, carefully pieced together in a short film clip to show how far a free but powerful 3D animation software known as Blender has progressed.  Watching the film clip, one would have thought that the works within might have been created by some super expensive 3D animation software.  You can check out this very film clip right after the break.

Convinced?  If so, you might have wondering why on earth people are still paying for super expensive 3D animation software, right?  Well, I think it’s depending on how one perceives his or her favorite brand.  Actually, not to put it so blandly, it’s probably more about how one would be able to use a specific 3D animation software in the most effective and efficient manner.  One example among many would be to create a short 3D animation work for an advertisement film clip in a very short period of timeframe but yet the quality of the work must not feel rush.

So, perhaps we cannot really compare one superb 3D animation software against another just as superb.  Nonetheless, we can always look at what available special features that are uniquely belong to a specific 3D animation software and make a determination on why one should go learn, buy, and use such a specific 3D animation software.  Luckily, Blender provides enough amazing features that are capable in allowing so many people to take up Blender and create great 3D artworks and animated films.  Best of all, Blender is free of charge.  What do you think of Blender?

Personal note:  I too might have to take up Blender when I have more spare time.  By saying this, I mean I want to learn how to use Blender soon enough.  Obviously, the video above has stimulated my ambition in exaggerating my imagination in 3D.

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