Shawn Powers

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Shawn Powers

http://www.brainofshawn.com

Occupation:

Associate Editor

Open Source project(s) I'm involved with or passionate about:

LTSP, community, hardware, penguins. :)

Shawn Powers is an Associate Editor for Linux Journal, the Technology Director for a school in northern Michigan, and a pretty serious coffee addict. He's also quite fond of Gummy Bears.

He can usually be found in the #linuxjournal channel on the freenode IRC server, or on Twitter. You can also drop him an email, but trust us, he's WAY behind on email. :)

Favorites

Lock Firefox 6 Prefs (Also versions 3, 4, & 5)

Build Your Own Arcade Game Player and Relive the '80s!

Guestbook

This is my guestbook. You are my guest. I guess that makes this your book. Hmmm... Just remember, you're sharing it with everyone else, so be nice. :)

Nagelstudio

Tue, 12/27/2011 - 03:56

great tips you're giving
Reise Blog
Gold verkaufen Blog
Versicherungsvergleich Blog
Lifestyle Blog
Lifestyle Blog
Strompreisvergleich Blog
Reisen Blog
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Nageldesign Hamburg
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MicxaFica

Thu, 12/22/2011 - 09:52

Love the tech tips
http://polovniautomobili.ws

Steven Dupuis

Wed, 12/07/2011 - 17:09

Hi Shawn,

I really enjoy your articles. They are current and informative, and I like the fact that you seem to actually use OpenSource tools (eg Abiword)...

Steve Dupuis
Ottawa Canada

PS: Regarding the Reader's Choice Awards, may I suggest that instead of entitiling items as "The Best Linux Widget" maybe using "Most Popular Linux Widget" instead .. This comes from reading some of the flames in the Comments ... as the Choice awards is a popularity contest, not a critical evaluation of things ... just my 2 cents.

metalx2000

Fri, 11/18/2011 - 18:02

Hey Buddy,

Do you think you can help me out and share this with your readers and anyone you think might be interested:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1384519763/pissed-off-penguins

Thanks!

markdean

Sat, 11/12/2011 - 13:07

Shawn,

I just wanted to say that I fully support LJ going all digital. I am amazed at how much bitching and moaning the decision has caused. Especially those that would rather not get the content at all if they can't have it in physical print form. It's the content I like, regardless of how it is delivered. I for one love ebooks and emags. I carry a nook and have gigs of books and magazines-even more on my laptop. I often find it hard to decide what to read on the commute!

So for those who drop their subscriptions, I say good riddance. They're fair weather friends who would rather see LJ disappear completely than hit the dang print button to have their precious paper copy.

Feel free to reprint my comment anywhere you like including the magazine!

Sincerely,

a supporter of all digital!

Larry Dalton

Wed, 11/02/2011 - 18:03

What are the chances of getting the Linux Journal converted to .mobi format and delivered to my amazon.com kindle?

Larry.Dalton@insightbb.com

linuxeric

Thu, 08/11/2011 - 14:28

Aug 2010 Dirk Elmendorf Col about Caffeine: said it was avail for Win. But the link he provided was only for Ubuntu version. Can you forward this to him for me so maybe he can let me know where he found info on the (shudder) Win version?

Thanks.

uday10586

Wed, 07/13/2011 - 07:50

Hello Mr.Power. Thanks for accepting my friendship.
I want to be a programmer on linux and unix environment.
So please advice me what I learn in Linux and Unix. I am watching all your videos. I am wanting to become good programmer like you.
So please advice me...........
From
S. Uday Shankar.

uday10586

Mon, 06/06/2011 - 20:15

hello Mr.Shawn.
This is uday from India.
I am very interested about Linux.
Pls give me some tips how to learn Linux.
Suggest me any books for linux.

mrfumblethumbs

Fri, 04/29/2011 - 13:13

Hi, Shawn :
Good video about Unity.
I just upgraded to 11.04 and am finding Unity to be "interesting". Don't know why I updated on day of release -never done that before. Possibly a midlife crisis or something.
Anyways, there are lots of ways to tweak how it looks by right-clicking on the switch in the top-right corner. However, even the most innocuous-seeming changes can cause major changes to the screen. Even to the point of eliminating both the silly side bar and the top bar ... ie. no way to invoke anything at all! Fortunately I still had a console icon available to me, so could invoke Firefox and search for answers. To sum it up, the command "unity --reset" is your best friend.
Hopefully Unity will grow up into something useful sooner than later.

Regards,

Brian

uday10586

Wed, 04/20/2011 - 06:23

hello Shawn.
Pls send a mail to me how to learn the scripting languages of Unix and Linux...
Pls give me mail.
From shankar
my id (uday10586@gmail.com)

uday10586

Wed, 04/20/2011 - 06:21

Hello Mr. Powers.
this is shankar from india.
I am very interested about Unix shell script And Linux shell script.
But i cannot know how to learn these languages.
u r a famous person in linux environment...

ricshank

Fri, 04/08/2011 - 02:59

Hey,Shawn
I'm final year engineering student
& I want to make my final year
project on linux.
Please give me some idea for
my project.
If you can give me any idea then
send on my id (ricoo.sachan214@gmail.com)
I'll be highly obliged.

Velidoran

Sun, 04/03/2011 - 23:41

Well Hello There.

Roger

Wed, 03/02/2011 - 16:52

Shawn,

Upon your recommendation I took a look at the MosKeyto (LJ Feb, p. 16). I've been ogling small USB drives so this looked like "the thing to get." Looked it up at Newegg and the price looked good too. However, this device took a real beating in the reviews by purchasers: it was found to be slow and commonly unreliable.

That doesn't keep me from reading more. Keep up the good work.

/Roger

rstreeter78

Thu, 09/16/2010 - 22:43

Love the tech tips, You're to me very talented and on your game

smotsie

Fri, 04/23/2010 - 13:03

Hey Shawn,

I feel I know you from all your articles, videos and postings. Hope your house is soon rebuilt and the medics find a way to cure your migraines (my wife is an occasional sufferer).

I look forward to reading your articles for many years to come.

Cheers
Smotsie

Comment by Shawn Powers
Thanks Smotsie! Today was a pretty good day, hopefully the migraines will soon be a thing of the past. :)

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