Archive for the ‘Linux’ Category
Monday, March 19th, 2007
Welcome to Katapult! | Katapult
Katapult allows access to the following:
* All applications listed in KMenu
* Entire Amarok playlist
* All of you bookmarks (Automatic Mozilla import, or manual import of file)
* Use Katapult as a ...
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Tuesday, September 12th, 2006
Strange new worlds, and programming languages...: Good bye Microsoft; Pete has now left the building!
In 1991, I installed Windows 3 on my desktop PC at work. Work at the time was indentured servitude at a construction company in my home town where they massively underpaid a naïve but talented guy ...
Posted in Apple, Linux, Microsoft, Ruby on Rails | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, August 8th, 2006
Attack of the Pod Penguins: Not Why, Why Not? - Network World
My good friend Tony has started writing what looks to be an excellent series on Linux and podcasting. Head over to LinuxWorld if you've got a few minutes to kill and give it a read. While you ...
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Thursday, August 3rd, 2006
Battle for Wesnoth
More cool Linux game goodness. I've been playing this for about a week now and it's really well done. I haven't played online yet, but I suspect it'll work just fine on my high latency wireless connection.
Wesnoth 1.1.8: first 1.2 beta
Thursday, Jul 27 2006
Wesnoth 1.1.8 has ...
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Thursday, August 3rd, 2006
linuX-gamers.net - Frets On Fire - Games - News
Cool looking game. Should be a hoot at the next geek party.
Unreal Voodoo, a group of talented finnish people dedicated in bringing you the finest in multimedia presentations, has released their brand new amazing opensource game, made with Amanith Framework: Frets ...
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Sunday, June 18th, 2006
The Fine Manual
Very good article that makes a lot of good points. This boils down to something my grandmother used to harp on: "If you can't say anything nice, then don't say anything at all."
In other words, if you can't help the person, then just be quiet. If ...
Posted in GPL/Open Source, Linux | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, April 19th, 2006
Anton’s Stuff » Blog Archive » Stompbox - Howto Part 1 Before You Start
I've finished my stompbox howto over at anton.lr2.com. Give it a read if you're interested in building a 3G router from scratch.
This is the start of my Stompbox Network howto. I have 6 parts planned so ...
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Saturday, March 11th, 2006
LXer: Why People Like Linux
I'm not agreeing with everything he has to say, but the article is interesting and certainly describes some of the reasons I choose Linux. If you haven't tried it yet, check out Ubuntu's Live CD on any PC. If you can boot from a ...
Posted in Computers, Linux | 1 Comment »
Friday, February 10th, 2006
Back to school with education LiveCDs
I've thought about doing this for the kids before. Most of their games have wildly different screen resolution requirements and frequently cause the other games to fail until someone resets the video settings. Maybe skip the Live CD and just use the vmware ...
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Tuesday, January 31st, 2006
Google at work on desktop Linux | The Register
Goobuntu eh. I'd get excited about this if:
1) I thought it might actually be a real product
2) they planned to port all their windows software to Linux
3) google gives back to ...
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Saturday, December 3rd, 2005
Daily Wireless - Linksys WRT-54GL
I've got the 54G and 54GS, both running opwnwrt. I'm very glad to see that Linksys is bringing it back.
LinkSys last month switched the standard model of its ubiquitous WRT-54G wireless router from Linux to VxWorks, starting with the "series 5" version. Now, LinkSys is ...
Posted in Linux | 9 Comments »
Monday, November 28th, 2005
All about Linux: 10 Things that make Ubuntu a Neophyte's Distribution
Ubuntu is fast on its way to becoming a peoples OS. I have always wondered what is it that makes people embrace Ubuntu over other Linux distributions. After some pondering, it struck me that the USP (Unique Selling Point) of ...
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Monday, November 7th, 2005
mann: Announcing Flickrfs!
Very cool stuff. Going to have to give this a try tonight.
Flickrfs is a virtual filesystem based upon FUSE for Linux. It can be mounted on your computer and then can be accessed using the standard commands. But, here are the twists. The filesystem uses threads, and ...
Posted in Flickr, Gadgets, Hacks, Linux, Photography | Comments Off