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Lifestock Sim Guide to Levels Up to level 10

2008-10-23T13:14:00.003-06:00

Level 1	You can now construct a Small Chicken Shed for $120.00 You can now construct a Small Garage for $125.00 You can now construct a Field for $60.00 You can now construct a Staff Accommodation for $300.00 You can now construct a Big Field for $100.00 You can now plant 'Wheat Seed' You now have the required skills to handle the resource 'Basic Chicken Feed' You now have the required skills to handle the resource 'Basic Fertilizer' You now have the required skills to handle the resource 'Golden Wheat' You now have the required skills to handle the resource 'Golden Grain' You can now handle Chickens You're now able to hire a Farmhand You're now qualified to operate a SpeedSow 2000 (diesel powered) You're now qualified to operate a Thresher 300 (diesel powered) You have unlocked the Word Shuffle game You have unlocked the Guess the Number game An easy-to-use skin preset is now available: The Grass Is Always Greener In Other Skins... An easy-to-use skin preset is now available: LifeStock Default You're now able to buy a 'Basic Incubator' You're now able to buy a 'Basic Chicken Autocleaner MkI' Special feature: You can now use the special feature Disease Identification & History Special feature: You can now use the special feature Refine Golden Wheat -> Convert To Golden Grain
Level 2	You're now qualified to operate a X-Combine 1200 (diesel powered) An easy-to-use skin preset is now available: Crimson And Red You're now able to buy a 'Basic Incubator Mark2'
Level 3	You can now plant 'Rye Seed' You now have the required skills to handle the resource 'Golden Rye' You now have the required skills to handle the resource 'Refined Golden Rye' An easy-to-use skin preset is now available: The Turquoise Excuse You're now able to buy a 'Basic Chicken Autocleaner MkII' Special feature: You can now use the special feature Refine Golden Rye
Level 4	You can now construct a Chicken Shed for $200.00 An easy-to-use skin preset is now available: Evil
Level 5	You can now construct a Large Chicken Shed for $350.00 You can now construct a Meadow for $500.00 You can now plant 'Rice Seed' You now have the required skills to handle the resource 'Basic Cow Feed' You now have the required skills to handle the resource 'Golden Rice' You can now handle Cows You're now able to buy a 'MeadowCleaner 500' You're now able to buy a 'Bronze Alien Bracelet'
Level 6	Milestone: 5% of max level You're now qualified to operate a X-Combine 1350 (diesel powered) An easy-to-use skin preset is now available: The Worst Skin Ever
Level 7	You can now construct a Milking Station for $650.00 You can now construct a Mechanic's Workshop for $500.00 You can now plant 'Maize Kernel' You now have the required skills to handle the resource 'Golden Maize' You're now able to hire a Mechanic An easy-to-use skin preset is now available: Purple Gurple Glurple
Level 8	You now have the required skills to handle the resource 'Nitrogen, Potassium, Phosphor Fertilizer' You're now qualified to operate a SpeedSow 3000 (diesel powered) You have unlocked the Hangman game
Level 9	You can now construct a Sheep Pen for $650.00 You now have the required skills to handle the resource 'Basic Sheep Feed' You now have the required skills to handle the resource 'Premium Chicken Feed' You can now handle Sheep You're now able to buy a 'SF Cleaner 500'

Linux Driver Links

2008-07-12T14:27:00.003-06:00

I recently have been having trouble remembering all the drivers that I need for my system so I am going to start a list that includes all of them that I have found

The only one I know for sure right now is my sound card:
Realtek ALC861VD 6-Channel HD Audio:

The driver is built into most kernels as it a Intel based card so you just need to get alsa configured right. (Or pulse audio, or ESD what ever you use)

For Alsa:
http://www.masclat-micros.com/alc861vd.htm

I will try to get every piece of hardware set right and post the specs and how to fix them. I will also look up other hardware that other people need help with and it to the list.

P.S. you can get most drivers (or find where to get them) here: http://www.linux-drivers.org/

Dr Who

2008-06-28T16:11:00.002-06:00

If you don't know who doctor who is then you are missing out and need to go watch at least the last 3 seasons or series as the Brits call them. This is the most amazing series ever and and the latest episode is amazing. it starts of the doctor and Donna landing on earth. And the Doctor is in the process of, Oh you just have to see it to Believe it.

First Amarok 2 tech preview released

2008-01-26T15:57:00.001-07:00

The Amarok crew has just released the very first technology preview of the upcoming Amarok 2 music manager, codenamed "Kutie". While this release is has many flaws, bugs and crashes, it also shows the great potential of the underlying technologies. Already, some features are working great, while others are still completely missing.

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Mandrake71

2008-01-08T17:45:00.000-07:00

For all those legacy Linux users I have just upload an ISO of Mandrake 7.1
You can download it here.
http://www.uploadhut.com/id157292/Mandrake7-1.iso

#3 Deluge

2008-01-07T16:48:00.000-07:00

IT'S TIME for the third installment of My favorite Linux applications. To day it is all about one Bittorent program Deluge. As keeping with the order previously assigned I will give a history of th product and then proceed to describe some of it various components.

The very first version of deluge was released to the public on September 25, 2006. It was originally intended to be called G-torrent and was released under that name but was quickly changed to avoid the confusion that it would be touted as a gnome only program. For the 0.5 on March 18, 2007 release there was a major rewriting of the source code for Deluge as many of the features were consolidated together. Version 0.5.8 is the latest release and has many improvements from previous versions including an internal anonymizing browser.

The plugins included are:

Blocklist Importer
Desired Ratio
Extrastats
Locations
Network Activity Graph
Network Health Monitor
RSS Broadcatcher
Torrent Creator
Torrent Notification
Torrent Search

I have been using deluge for the past few months and have a had very few problems that weren't my creation. And if you have any problems the forums are very helpful. Deluge is also available for Windows through an official port and mac through Macports.

The Deluge site is http://deluge-torrent.org/

I hope you enjoy Using deluge as I have it is a very good application and has plenty of potential for the future.

Be sure to stay tuned for the next installment in the Linux series on Smplayer and base application Mplayer.

To you my friends I bid you adieu.

#2 Compiz-Fusion

2008-01-04T19:11:00.000-07:00

Here is my second installment of my top Linux apps to day it is about Compiz-Fusion.

Compiz-Fusion is the current incarnation of Compiz, which was released as free software by Novell for the SUSE distribution of LINUX in January 2006, and Beryl which forked from Compiz in September 2006. The two projects, Compiz and Beryl, merged in March of 2007 to become Compiz-Fusion.

With the merger Beryl production has been halted in favor of work on Compiz-Fusion, while Compiz has been maintained as the backend basis for Compiz-Fusion. Beryl development has been infused in to developing the plugins and functions on the visible level. With the merger Beryl has brought the availability of Emerald to the Compiz world.

The main function of the Compiz-Fusion is a compositing window manager plugin layer for the Compiz core. It has the fancy capability's known to Beryl with the stability that was considered to be Compizes major draw over Beryl.

Some of the many plugins include:

Animation
Color filter
Expo
Enhanced Zoom Desktop
JPEG
Negative
Opacify
Put
Resize info
Ring Switcher
Shift Switcher
Scale Addons
Snapping Windows
Text
Window Previews
Viewport Switcher
Desktop Wall
Window Rules
Workarounds
ADD Helper
Benchmark
Crash handler
Cube Caps
Cube Reflection
Extra WM Actions
Fade to Desktop
Firepaint
Cube Gears
Group and Tab Windows
Motion blur
Reflection
Scale Window Title Filter
Show desktop
Splash
Trailfocus
Widget Layer

With many others available and in development.

Along with Compiz-Fusion there is Emerald, a window decorator. Emerald allows for the Extreme customizing of the title bar.

Compiz-Fusion and its predecessors have contributed very greatly to the furthering of the Linux desktop movement into the main stream society, prompting other desktop operating system to develop similar features.

I hope you have enjoyed learning about Compiz as much as I have, and I hope you stay tuned for the rest of the article about the other applications, and to you my friends I bid you adieu.

#1 Firefox

2008-01-03T18:08:00.000-07:00

Sorry it took so long to get this up every one, but it takes along time to get all the information that I would like.

But here is a brief blurb about the history of Firefox. Firefox was first released on September 23, 2002 as Phoenix, under the codename Pescadero, with the amazing features of a customizable toolbar and a quicksearch function. Its name then changed to Mozilla Firebird on May 17, 2003 and stayed there for only a few months, when on February 9, 2004 it finally became the current name, Firefox, with the codename Deer Park. Firefox 2, codenamed Bon Echo, was released on October 24, 2006 with the current version (2.0.0.11) being released on November 30, 2007. Other notable versions include 1.5 which incorporated localized builds and many other features, it was also the the last major release before Firefox 2. Version 0.3, codenamed Lucia, was the first to integrate tabbed browsing which had been developed by Opera.

In it present state it has many available features including:

And quite a few others that can be found through the above links.

Firefox 3 codenamed Gran Paradiso Is the last to be based on the original Mozilla browser, with Firefox being based on Mozilla 2.0, and is in early stages of development. Firefox 3 which is on it's third beta release, is estimated to be released in 2008 after 2 years of development.

Well that ends my first post on the applications in my top list of Linux programs hope you stay tuned in for more information on the other programs.

My top used linux supporting programs

2007-12-28T19:14:00.000-07:00

I was just wandering around the net with nothing to really to when I realized that I hadn't posted here yet today. So I got to thinking about what could post on when I had a marvelous idea I could come up with a list of my top used Linux applications. So I started think and while thinking I went back to surfing and found a really cool link and started reading it and totally forgot about making my post. Well now I finally remembered and have just decided to make a basic list now and do featurettes on each of the programs individually over the next few days.

1. Firefox
2. Compiz
3. Deluge
4. Smplayer
5. Amarok

Why i think Bill Gates isn't as bad as people make him out.

2007-12-27T22:31:00.001-07:00

I went to the same elementary school as he did.

And uh...

Uh...

Uh...

And well thats about it.

What linux has that windows doesn't.

2007-12-04T22:05:00.000-07:00

1. It is free. (unless you count pirated copies)
2. It is optimized to run better on 64bit platforms.
3. It promotes sharing. (unless you consider proliferating viruses sharing)
4. It has more features. (unless you count viruses as features)
5. Up to date full fledged releases. (again unless you count viruses)

Help an OpenSource Developer Get a New Computer

2007-12-02T19:31:00.001-07:00

I’m a developer Debian Contributor and Ubuntu Developer, and my primary tool is my computer. Unfortunately, about 3 months ago, my computer died an untimely death, and I have resorted to using a pentium 200MHz machine with 256MB Ram.If you want to help me get a new system ( that I cant afford alone ) please read the whole story and digg this one.

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Bash tips and tricks

2007-11-25T21:08:00.001-07:00

For the uninitiated, bash is the default shell in many Linux distros, including Fedora, Ubuntu, Redhat etc etc. If you use a Linux based OS, then chances are that you are using bash. For this reason, I outline a few common annoyances, and the simple ways to overcome them.

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A computer that costs as much as a tank of gas.

2007-11-25T20:37:00.001-07:00

This past week I got stuck at one of those gas stations that is pretty much the only gas station nearby. The prices were so insane that I had to take a picture. This is what I saw when I pulled up to the gas pump.

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MPAA is infringing copyright!

2007-11-25T13:19:00.001-07:00

Kind of ironic isn't it that the group that has been going after US citizens for years because of copyright infringement, infringes copyrights and trademarks while trying to stop infringment.

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Help get native Linux support for Starcraft 2 !

2007-11-20T21:23:00.001-07:00

Sign this petition to let Blizzard know that a Linux version of SC2 would be profitable to them and oh so appreciated by many gamers!

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2007-11-16T00:00:00.001-07:00

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