How linux kernel boots

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his is an absolutely beautiful presentation detailing how your computer boots, in this case using Linux.

This is a screencast of a talk given by Bart Trojanowski before the OCLUG (Ottawa Canada Linux User Group).

The slides were created using the open source MagicPoint, an X11 - though text-based presentation program. In other words; use your favorite text-editor to create your slides.

Barts presentation describes the boot-up process using very innovative and illuminating slides. Well worth the trouble of taking a look :^)

Rss/website discrepancy

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t seems as if Metro might be useing ready-made boiler-text for its articles. Two ready made articles that go either way and then they just print the one that turns out to be correct...

Warning: Swedish language skills necessary.

Translation (loose):

• top image="German woman released"
• bottom image = "Court found her guilty!"

Shopping spree madness!

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ome improvement mania! This is our new fan... bought at jula at a fairly reduced price. A good thing is that it will keep you cool in the summer and warm in the winter time. I was initially very disappointed by the grayish color, it seemed much lighter on the website. False marketing!


Small park-bench for the girls... bought at Bauhaus. We got this bench to match it to the big one. It gets oohs and aaahs from people.

Park-bench for the big people... Between this and the colour of the building we are well on our way to creating our own little theme-park.


And of course a mambo-broom to take care of business... from Rusta. We spent a lot of money on this stuff. If you think that the broom is a bit conspicuous you're right. But it is nothing compared to the zebra patterned one with the red brush.

The right kind of broom is pivotal in keeping the balcony clean. And having it look this good is just an added boon ;^)

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wo excellent themes combined. The windowdecorations are silmathorons Aluminium 1.1+2.0 (Emerald Beryl theme). An Emerald theme created to match the Aluminium theme for gtk2.

The Gtk2-theme used here is a combination of the standard Clearlooks-theme and the Aluminium-theme. I call it dclear.

The background btw is one of the staple wallpapers for ubuntu-studio.