Rock'n'Roll trip with Super5 - page 1

Super5 Rocks and I'm a big fan !

So here's the translated version of page 1 of the "Rock'n'Roll trip with Super5".

This French comic is a co-production by Super5, published as a Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 France Creative Common Attribution Licence; the license of this Artwork has been changed to artlibre.org (see original post )- which is similar and compatible with the previous CC-SA license.

(My humble contribution as a fan, is this (poor) translation into English - but don't worry more pages will follow in blogmymix - the motto is "to share and publish")

Here's the original post Blog d'un robot: Rock Robot (in French).

NB: the whole comics is online at https://lerockavanttout.org/rock-bandes-dessinees/a-virus-in-the-computer/

Opera : How to add search engines

Adding search engines - Opera Knowledge Base: "Adding search engines

Opera comes with a default list of commonly used searches, but you can also add additional searches if you do not find your favorite among the defaults. In fact, it does not even have to be a search engine, most sites with a search field can be added as a search.

To add a search, simply right-click (Ctrl-click on Mac) in the site's search field and select 'Create search' from the menu. Enter a name for your search, and a keyword, which can be used for searching directly from the address bar. Then click OK."


This feature is really cool - and works pretty much as the FireFox "Add a Keyword for this search" (see explanations on mozillaZine website)

But unfortunately this feature is broken (the create search is unactive) in Opera Unite beta see this posts ; hopefully it will be fix in the next release

Search trick for public domain pictures

Here's a trick for Firefox to search public domain pictures using the "Add a Keyword for this search" - you have to edit your new bookmark with this syntax :

http://images.google.com/images?q=%s&as_rights=cc_publicdomain

it then will look for public domain pictures.

Installing Opera Unite under Debian

It's not exactly as friendly as the version 9.64 install ; (where everything could be done within synaptic) - but it's quite easy (took me 2 clicks)

1. download the .deb file from http://snapshot.opera.com/unix/10-unite/intel-linux/
2. launch Xfe as root then click Install/upgrade

And that was it !

Opera Unite

Opera Unite's slogan of "re-inventing the web", would probably have sound a bit arrogant since very few people have heard of this internet Browser before.

I knew myself a little about Opera 9.5 - because a couple of month ago - I was looking for a browser able to download torrents, and found Wyzo (that didn't really impressed me) and later discovered that handling torrent files has been a standard feature of the Opera browser (for quite some time) and so when I heard about this new beta version I was excited to see what it would be ...

Opera Unite in a nutshell is like sharing your stuff on the web directly from your computer to others.

I've read some critics talking about performance compared to other services, about security issues, about this solution not being environmental friendly since you have to have your PC "on" all day and such ... all these critics make their point, but this Beta is quite exciting.

I can see various scenarios where Opera Unite is really attractive

1. I'm chatting with my friend Bobba Fett and we have to transfer a 12MB files - no way to send this by mail, I don't want to upload this on a ftp server etc ... I just launch Opera Unite and share the file - then send the http address of my local opera unite page to Bobba and as soon as the download is finished - I close Opera Unite.
2. At home, I want to send a couple of files from my Linux box, on my mac - of course I could start sharing on the mac, setup a ftp service on the Linux box, ... or just launch Opera Unite and already use an interface I'm familiar with.
3. I want to setup a "Facebook like account", but I want to have total control of my content
   

There's probably more benefits, but that's what convince me to install Opera Unite.

Impressive OpenSource and Free art collection

If you're still not convinced that open source and free software such as Gimp, Inkscape, and Blender can really kick ass then please have a look at the latest issue of Code:FREE

CODE:FREE - Chrisdesign blog

the breathtaking illustration on the left is from Luciano Lourenço with Inkscape

Nice collection of caricatures

If you like caricatures (like I do) - then you will be interested by this set from openclipart.org - also good to know all of them are published as public domain.

See the link to Open Clip Art Library johnny_automatic