I’ve been using my Raspberry Pi for a while now and the biggest problem I had was heat. At normal use it kept 54 degrees celsius, and that is way to much for my taste. Specially since I was going to use it as a LAMP server.

So I bought a couple of aluminum heatsinks from Amazon. And it didn’t help much. I went from 54ºC to about 52°C. Still way to hot.

But then I thought. Why not connect a small 5volt laptop fan into it. It couldn’t be that hard. I had a quick look at the Raspberry Pi GPIO and found out that pin 2 was 5 volt, and pin 6 was ground. This would be easy as Pi ;)

As you can see in the pictures below, I cut the cables for temp control and just connected the fan to pin 2 and 6.

It now keeps a cool 31ºC to 36ºC and I only payed about $5 for the fan at my local computer store.

I’m a somewhat conservative woman, but once upon a time I was seriously considering getting an Ubuntu Tattoo on my shoulder (I have no other tattoos). That was back in 2009 when Ubuntu in my eyes was the greatest Linux operating system out there.
Yes, I know Ubuntu is just a derivative of Debian, but that’s a whole other discussion.

But in 2011 something happened to Ubuntu that changed my entire opinion on Ubuntu and I counted my blessings (I’m not a Christian) that I didn’t get that Ubuntu tattoo.

Ever since version 11.04, Ubuntu have tried (in my eyes) to distance themselves from Linux and the Linux way. First of all they dropped Gnome that is the best desktop environment out there (my opinion), for Unity that makes my desktop get that horrible Mac OS X feeling, but on crack and PCP. It’s like having a tablet operating system on my desktop. And that is something I definitely don’t want. I want a desktop environment that I can work with. That I can use to develop the things I want.

What is also strange is that Canonical has stopped mentioning Linux on their web site. The only times you find anything about Linux, is when you search for Linux Kernel vulnerabilities.

WHAT is going on Canonical??? WHY are you driving your loyal users away? Is this the future of Ubuntu. An operating system that is so close to Mac OS X, that only a hipster can see the difference?

STOP IT! It’s time to turn back the clock, and again make Ubuntu Great.

Until then I will be using Xubuntu. Xfce gives me that sweet candy Gnome 2 feeling.

B.T.W. If you find any spelling errors, it’s because it’s 1.40am, I’m tired from taking a couple of Valiums  and my English spell checker is useless. Need to fix that… some day.

I’ve re-designed the website since I needed more space for images and tutorials. The theme may contain some errors, but I’ll fix them as soon as I can.

I prepared a 16GB SD Image with LAMP (Linux, Apache2, MySQL and PHP). I included phpMyAdmin, FTP Server, SSH and VNC Server if you for some reason need to VNC into RP. The image is made from the 2013-02-09-wheezy-raspbian image. I also configured it for WIFI with static IP, encrypted with WPA.

So I’ve needed to disable pop-up notifications because I get notification on my Logitech G19 Keyboard. This is how I did it.

If you for some reason want to enable pop-up notifications again. Then just write:

That’s it.

Aircrack-ng and Reaver are used to test network security. Unfortunately these are no longer a part of Ubuntu Software Center, so you have to download and compile them manually.

This is how you do it.

Just finished re-designing my Conky theme that you can download. It’s just a simple theme without any graphics that gives you all necessary system information. It’s only one file (.conkyrc), so no difficult installations.

Made a small collection of 4 computer icons. You can download the collection in .psd (Photoshop), and .xcf (GIMP)

First there was HD. Thene there was ADHD. Now I bring you ADHD in 3D. The whole new ADH3D is here ;)

Ever since I upgraded to Xubuntu 11.10 I’ve experienced static noise when I use VLC Player. I did some research and I quickly understood that the problem was Pulseaudio. If you have experienced this problem, then I’m glad to give you the solution.

Open a terminal and write:

Now find the line that says load-module module-udev-detect and replace it with

Now you just have to save and re-boot. Easy as π