Here are six of the better images I’ve taken over the last year. Use them in good health. They’re licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. In other words, feel free to use them as you see fit, with the exceptions that you must attribute the original works to me (and other contributors - sell below), you cannot use them for commercial purposes (money making - unless you ask - I can be flexible for the right price :) and you must license any derivative works under the same license. Clear as mud? Just follow the link to the Creative Commons license at the bottom for a full explanation.

The font I’ve used for the site logo on these came from the Sull-A-Day blog, another site you should definitely checkout. Anyway here they are, to download, right-click and do a “Save Target As” (IE) or a “Save Link As” (Firefox):

LD_BG01_1024×76 LD_BG01_1280×960 LD_BG01_2816×2112 LD_BG01.7z	LD_BG02_1024×768 LD_BG02_1280×960 LD_BG02_2816×2112 LD_BG02.7z
LD_BG03_1024×768 LD_BG03_1280×960 LD_BG03_2816×2112 LD_BG03.7z	LD_BG04_1024×768 LD_BG04_1280×960 LD_BG04_2816×2112 LD_BG04.7z
LD_BG05_1024×768 LD_BG05_1280×960 LD_BG05_2816×2112 LD_BG05.7z	LD_BG06_1024×768 LD_BG06_1280×960 LD_BG06_2816×2112 LD_BG06.7z

Download all these in a single file:

backgrounds_luckydisasters.com.7z [080207]

At some point I’ve got to make some 1440×900 versions of these too, that’s my laptop’s screen size after all…

These wallpapers are licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.

I love GNU/Linux. You can do everything on a GNU/Linux system that you can on a Microsoft Windows or a Apple Mac, but for the most part, any software costs are negligible - okay, to be honest, TCO of a GNU/Linux system will be shift costs from software to internet access and administration. But hey, that’s no problem if you know what you’re doing. Oh, wait, that could be a problem - except for that little internet thing.

Plenty of GNU/Linux resources from people all over the world on the internet. And that’s where this post comes in! IBM is dedicated to GNU/Linux, and not just by pouring millions into development and patenting! They have this huge database of how-tos, articles, download links and so forth available from their Linux developerWorks website. Like this nice little walk-through on how to use linux scripts to build your own wireless ISP. Now, you’d expect IBM to promote IBM Linux products (do they have those?), well, they don’t. This site’s instructions, recommendations and walk-throughs are all based around software that can be downloaded freely from other sources on the internet (checkout their downloads page if you don’t believe me!).

Links:
IBM developerWorks - Linux
IBM developerWorks - New to Linux
IBM developerWorks - Technical Library (be sure to checkout their LPI certification prep series!)

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