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| Posted: 21 Jun 2010 08:59 AM PDT  10 Latest News, Blogs, Tips, and Reviews that I find Interesting and Useful:1. Hundreds of Possible Alien Planets Discovered By NASA Spacecraft NASA's Kepler spacecraft hunting for Earth-like planets around other stars has found 706 candidates for potential alien worlds while gazing at more than 156,000 stars packed into a single patch of the sky. More @ space.com 2. Exploring the software behind Facebook, the world's largest site At the scale that Facebook operates, a lot of traditional approaches to serving web content break down or simply aren't practical. The challenge for Facebook's engineers has been to keep the site up and running smoothly in spite of handling close to half a billion active users. This article takes a look at some of the software and techniques they use to accomplish that. More @ RoyalPingdom 3. Toolkit: A Look at the Gear That Experts Use to Spy on Spies When companies like Archer Daniels Midland and Liberty Mutual Insurance are worried that someone is bugging their boardrooms or tapping their phone lines, they call Kevin Murray. He heads one of the most sophisticated surveillance-detection firms this side of the FBI. Wired asked Murray about the bevy of gizmos he and his staff use to sniff out corporate espionage. More @ Wired 4. Tetris code theory explained 5. Google releases command line tool for accessing Web services Google has announced the availability of a new tool called GoogleCL that will allow users to interact with the company's popular Web services directly from the command line. More @ ArsTechnica 6. When It Comes to Security, Openness Isn't Always a Virtue - Rebuttals Even as he referred to the "cost of transparency" uncovered by his research, Sam Ransbotham, a professor at Carroll School of Management, acknowledged that "the transparency benefits far outweigh this cost. ... The challenge for open source communities is to maintain the benefits while mitigating the downsides." More @ LinuxInsider7. Beyond Frustration: Three levels of happy design I'm a devotee of TED talks. I was once assigned to watch several TED talks to deconstruct what made each a good or a bad presentation. TED topics are wide-ranging, though they generally relate to the categories that make up the "TED" acronym: Technology, Entertainment, and Design. More @ UXMagazine8. iPed tablet running Android 2.1 spotted in the blurry, blurry wild 9. Why Mobile Innovation Is Blowing Away PCs On the heels of the latest Android phone, the Sprint HTC EVO, and as we approach iPhone 4, it seems like mobile devices and platforms are innovating at about five times the pace of personal computers. More @ TechCrunch10. Top 10 Greatest Military Campaigns When we think of wars we tend to think of a war on the whole and not on the individual battles and events that make it up. This list looks at ten moments in military history which were significant for one reason or another. Be sure to add any that you think are missing in the comments. More @ Listverse |
| How to Hide Desktop Icons in Ubuntu Posted: 21 Jun 2010 08:12 AM PDT  If you are new to Linux and are using Ubuntu, you may find it frustrating that there's no instant option to easily hide/show desktop icons just like in Windows. But there's no need to worry as there are several ways to minimize or eliminate your desktop clutter and hide some or even all the icons from your Ubuntu desktop.Hiding home, computer, network, drives, and trash desktop icons: To hide the home, computer, network, drives, and trash icons, simply open Configuration Editor by pressing Alt-F2, type gconf-editor, and run it.  Inside the Configuration Editor, navigate to apps --> nautilus --> desktop. At the right-hand pane, you should see several checkboxes. Just uncheck the box that corresponds to the icon that you would like to hide.  Hiding all the desktop icons: To hide all the icons from your Ubuntu desktop including perhaps your downloaded files and documents, open the Configuration Editor, navigate to apps --> nautilus --> preferences, and then locate show_desktop item from the right-hand pane. Uncheck the box and voila, all of your desktop icons should be gone by then.  Hiding desktop icons using Ubuntu Tweak: If you have already installed this popular application called Ubuntu Tweak, you can use it in hiding your desktop icons in a simpler way than I've shown above. Using Ubuntu Tweak, just go to Desktop Icon Settings, and then uncheck the icon or icons that you would like to hide. For those of you who have not installed Ubuntu Tweak yet, just get it using Synaptic Package Manager or through Ubuntu Software Center.That's about it.  If you have other ways in hiding Ubuntu desktop icons, share them with us via comment.  |
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