The H8ers Club

I’ve been thinking of switching my Operating System on my computer for quite some time. Out of all the Linux distro’s I have tried, I have found one and it’s name is PCLinuxOS.

What is PCLinuxOS? It is a Linux distro based on the very popular Mandriva family. Depending on the distribution, the desktop theme is KDE which is easy to get used to if you are coming from windows. You can download the live CD and test it out on your computer without having to install anything and the option to install is on the desktop if you choose to. I personally have Windows on another partition and basically use PCLinuxOS as an everyday operating system.

What so good about Linux? K3B - a DVD/CD authoring kit which is much better than any commercial authoring kit I have seen. Open Office - A full office suite of programs that is better than ms-office and it’s free. Synaptic - synaptic is where you can download software, Synaptic is the program for PCLinuxOS other Linux distributions have a similar program. Virus protection - you don’t need it. Linux’s architecture is set up in a way that viruses are not able to execute their malicious scripts. You do as always need a firewall. You can download a firewall program from synaptic and if you ever have any problems you can always go to their friendly forum at PCLinuxOS forum.

What should I start out with? Well I would download a live CD. Preferably PCLinuxOS 2007. If your BIOS settings are set to boot from CD then I would burn a CD or DVD ISO image and then reboot my computer then you can see how PCLinuxOS is. Who knows You might like it.

Hers is a video of what this OS can do

I wrote this script about 6months ago and put it on Sourceforge.net. After looking at it recently, I decided to upgrade it. Well, not upgrade it , but fix it . The regular expression I used was a bit green. So after making a better expression I fixed it. It is located at Sourceforge.net .

The script is PHP and uses Java for the frontend. Basically it gives you an up to the minute radar forecast. So, if you have a website that runs php, you can put this on there if you would like your users to access radar on your website.

The package comes with all the java files to run this script effectively, just check out the Project website or goto http://askasmartguy.com/old/radar/ .