http://www.joshbart.com/ RSS Feed for joshbart.com en-us http://www.joshbart.com/cms/images/32/world.png http://www.joshbart.com/ http://www.joshbart.com/cms/index.php/main/viewpage/entry/14 Im a proud Canadian living in Ontario. My background is in software design, network administration and technical computer service. I have a B.E.Sc. in Software Engineering, and am A+, Network+ and M... http://www.joshbart.com/cms/index.php/main/viewpage/entry/15 strongWindows Downloads/strong AVG Anti-Virus: a href="http://free.avg.com/"link/a Firefox: a href="http://www.firefox.com"link/a Frostwire: a href="http://www.frostwire.com/"link/a Ja... http://www.joshbart.com/cms/index.php/main/viewpage/entry/22 Star Craft Map. Requires expansion... http://www.joshbart.com/cms/index.php/main/viewpage/entry/23 Star Craft Map. Does not require expansion.... http://www.joshbart.com/cms/index.php/main/viewpage/entry/24 Star Craft Map. Does not requires expansion.... http://www.joshbart.com/cms/index.php/main/viewpage/entry/18 Here are some commonly used terminal commands. These should work on any Ubuntu installation. strongDelete a non-empty directory/strong rm -rF directory_name strongInstall DVD Playback/strong... http://www.joshbart.com/cms/index.php/main/viewpage/entry/19 This is a basic implementation of the RC4 encryption algorithm. If you ever need basic encryption in your program, this might help.... http://www.joshbart.com/cms/index.php/main/viewpage/entry/17 Over the last couple of months, since the turn based strategy game, I thought I should give a shot at an Action RPG game. It plays very similar to the old classic game: Castle of the Winds, a childho... http://www.joshbart.com/cms/index.php/main/viewpage/entry/20 I created a Civ style game. Its a pretty basic strategy game, but all the elements are there: basic resource management, unit upkeep, basic computer player AI, elemental units, graphics and sound. I... http://www.joshbart.com/cms/index.php/main/viewpage/entry/16 I cleaned up the interface and the code of the previous music player. I also added features such as better playlist management to the program. The program supports wave, midi, mp3 and ogg audio file... http://www.joshbart.com/cms/index.php/main/viewpage/entry/25 Hi Everyone! Today I launched my first CMS (content management system). I did not like having just another wordpress site that looked like everyone elses, so I decided to create my own. I created i... http://www.joshbart.com/cms/index.php/main/viewpage/entry/26 I got sick of designing GUI on paper, so I made my own GUI prototyping program. It works very much like a simple diagramming tool. It prints to paper and exports to png files. Requires Java 6 to ru... http://www.joshbart.com/cms/index.php/main/viewpage/entry/27 I just downloaded and started to test the new version of Ubuntu (10.04). I noticed that the system menu icons were gone and that the location bar was not permanently editable in the file browser. Th... http://www.joshbart.com/cms/index.php/main/viewpage/entry/28 At work I always needed access to a quick notepad style scratch pad, so I wrote this program. I use it for a variety of tasks, such as a Todo list, quick meeting notes, or even just quick reminders f... http://www.joshbart.com/cms/index.php/main/viewpage/entry/29 I created a quick and simple application to view SQLite database files. Requires Java 6 to run.... http://www.joshbart.com/cms/index.php/main/viewpage/entry/30 Hi Everyone, Im now hosting joshbart.com on my home server. Its running Ubuntu. I moved my domain registration to DynDNS (www.dyndns.com). They allow for dynamic ip changes, which is perfect for ho... http://www.joshbart.com/cms/index.php/main/viewpage/entry/32 I created a small utility that searches and exports a list of all the file in a directory, and all of its sub-directories. This is useful if you want to catalog videos or music, or any kind of files.... http://www.joshbart.com/cms/index.php/main/viewpage/entry/33 Ive always wanted to create a network application of some kind, so I wrote this network chat program. It also makes heavy use of multi-threading for messaging and peer discovery. The network chat pr... http://www.joshbart.com/cms/index.php/main/viewpage/entry/34 This tutorial is not aimed at Linux experts or people who are already well versed with Linux. This set of tutorials is aimed at someone who knows nothing about Linux and wants to know some basic abou... http://www.joshbart.com/cms/index.php/main/viewpage/entry/35 This tutorial is part 2 in my Linux tutorials. The previous one described the file structure and permissions of files and folders. This set of tutorials is aimed at someone who knows nothing about L... http://www.joshbart.com/cms/index.php/main/viewpage/entry/36 This tutorial is part 3 in my Linux tutorials. The previous ones described the file structure, permissions of files and folders, and commands to navigate directories and manage permissions. This set o... http://www.joshbart.com/cms/index.php/main/viewpage/entry/39 After a night of playing this game with friends, I decided to program it. I like programming card games since theyre easy to model, but depending on the game rules, can be complicated to program, esp... http://www.joshbart.com/cms/index.php/main/viewpage/entry/40 Since theres no "do nothing" value available in Ubuntu, for when you close your laptop lid, you have to set the option manually. Go to your terminal and type: gconf-editor. Go to apps, gnome-power-m... http://www.joshbart.com/cms/index.php/main/viewpage/entry/41 If you want to install Oracles (formerly Sun) binary version of Java 6, type these 3 lines into your terminal. It will install the JRE and JDK. Ubuntu 10.04 or 10.10: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sun... http://www.joshbart.com/cms/index.php/main/viewpage/entry/42 Theres two neat properties introduced in CSS 3 that Im really fond of: border-radius and box-shadow. border-radius creates curved or rounded corners of divs and box-shadow creates everything from dro... http://www.joshbart.com/cms/index.php/main/viewpage/entry/43 To install XBMC on Ubuntu 11.10, go to your terminal and type: sudo apt-add-repository ppa:nathan-renniewaldock/xbmc-stable sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install xbmc After it installs, your g... http://www.joshbart.com/cms/index.php/main/viewpage/entry/44 I have a media computer, which I use HDMI for video and audio, and it usually takes me a few google searches to figure this out, so here it is, in one nice blog entry. FYI, this is an nVidia video ca... http://www.joshbart.com/cms/index.php/main/viewpage/entry/45 This assumes you have install Apache 2 Webserver. First, install subversion and the library for Apache: bsudo apt-get install subversion libapache2-svn/b Then create a new directory for the repo... http://www.joshbart.com/cms/index.php/main/viewpage/entry/46 This assumes you have install Apache 2 Webserver. First, install subversion and the library for Apache: bsudo apt-get install subversion libapache2-svn/b Then create a new directory for the repo...