Max Baker — A Man with a Hand

Archive for March, 2009

chown3d Part 2 – GTK+ and GLIB in your own home directory

ch0wned. adj. This is the state when you are a linux user and don’t have root access.
For today’s installment we go over getting some basic libraries up to shape. If your Linux distro is old enough, you can’t use 3rd party binaries like Adobe Acrobat Reader (acroread), Firefox, and Flash because the [...]

chown3d – A Linux distro in your home directory

I’m coining a new term here : chown3d (or ch0wn3d depending on how l33t you are).   
ch0wned. adj. This is the state when you are a linux user and don’t have root access. 
This is the case for a lot of people working Corporate jobs as engineers, including me.   I realized chr00ted is a more appropriate [...]