Louwrentius

The current state of Linux is amazing. If we take a look at, for example, Ubuntu Linux, we have to admit that the Linux desktop is really becoming a nice, user-friendly environment. I'm truly starting to like what I see. I considered whiping Mac OS X from my macbook, but there are some reasons why I won't. 

• I like to mess around in Adobe Photoshop now and then. There is no serious Linux alternative.

• I've got an iPhone, so now i'm 'stuck' with iTunes. I really like my iPhone btw.

• I really like iPhoto, it is very easy to use and archive my photo's.

• My entire music collection is in iTunes -> especially the song ratings are important.

Maybe those reasons can be overcome. But for day-to-day usage, I still prefer Mac OS X above Linux. Especially software like iPhoto makes life so much easier. The hardware comes at a premium but I think it is worth it.

As part of an unattended installation, it was necessary to install a binary nvidia graphics driver. This is a manual proces by default. However, it can be done fully automatic:

prerequisite: install xserver-xorg-dev package or similar xorg development package.

sh NVIDIA-.run -q -a -n -X -s

That's all there is to it. The -q option means quiet, the -a option means accept licence, the -n action suppresses questions, the -X option updates the xorg.conf file and the -s option disables the ncurses interface.

PPSS is a shell script that processess files or other items in parallel. It is designed to make use of the current multi-core CPUs. It will detect the number of available CPUs and start a thread for each CPU core. 

This script is build with the goal to be very easy to use. Also, it must be robust (atomic), and portable. It employs a locking mechanism and runs on Linux and Mac OS X. It should work on other Unix-like operating system that support the bash shell.

Please visit http://code.google.com/p/ppss/ for a download.