Film #82: The Wrong Man

Alfred Hitchcock's 1956 drama The Wrong Man remains an anomaly among the director's works. Eschewing his vividly colored, 50s-era studio slickness in favor of a street-level B&W, quasi-documentary form, Hitch held back nothing in telling the true story of Manny Balestrero (Henry Fonda, in possibly his most harrowing performance, next to his role as The President in Sidney Lumet's Fail-Safe).

Film #82: The Wrong Man

Alfred Hitchcock's 1956 drama The Wrong Man remains an anomaly among the director's works. Eschewing his vividly colored, 50s-era studio slickness in favor of a street-level B&W, quasi-documentary form, Hitch held back nothing in telling the true story of Manny Balestrero (Henry Fonda, in possibly his most harrowing performance, next to his role as The President in Sidney Lumet's Fail-Safe).

Linux Journal Year 2004

Film #81: Mulholland Dr.

NOTE: This is an article primarily for those who’ve already seen this movie, so SPOILERS abound. Still, see the movie if you haven’t--it's a must-watch--and then read this.Just recently, I perused an article on Daniel Johnson’s Film Babble Blog titled 7 Years Later, Does Mulholland Drive Make Any More Sense? In it, Johnson vividly recounts a recent experience of watching David Lynch’s 2001 film

Film #81: Mulholland Dr.

NOTE: This is an article primarily for those who’ve already seen this movie, so SPOILERS abound. Still, see the movie if you haven’t--it's a must-watch--and then read this.Just recently, I perused an article on Daniel Johnson’s Film Babble Blog titled 7 Years Later, Does Mulholland Drive Make Any More Sense? In it, Johnson vividly recounts a recent experience of watching David Lynch’s 2001 film

Change close, minimize, maximize and menu icon order

If you want to change the order of minimize, maximize, close and menu icons in the title bar, follow the steps below

Press Alt+F2 to bring the run application dialog box. Type gconf-editor
Configuration editor will open. Go to /apps/metacity/general/button_layout
If you look close at the button_layout key, you will see four items, minimize, maximize, close and menu separated by coma and colon.


All the items on left side of colon appears on left side of the title bar and all the items on right side of the colon appears on the right side of the title bar.

So if you double click it and change it to minimize,maximize,close:menu
the icons in your title bar will resemble Mac OS.

service command in ubuntu

Redhat, Fedora and CentOS users and server administrators uses service * start/stop/restart/status command. Where as Ubuntu users and server administrators uses /etc/init.d/* start/stop/restart.

With Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex 8.10 Ubuntu users can also use the service command to start/stop/restart the Ubuntu services.

Hope this make the Redhat and other administrators little homely while using Ubuntu :P.