Archive for the ‘Tech’ Category
Saturday, July 12th, 2008
Our fantastic friends at the Elisa project have reached the 0.5.1 version mark. The media center is offically released, but the deb packages for Debian and Ubuntu have yet to hit the repos. As soon as they are put up I'll be updating my media server.
In the meantime you can ...
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Saturday, July 5th, 2008
I've been dual-booting Ubuntu and Windows XP since December 3rd of last year and I've come to use Windows less and less. My long term goal is to use Linux full time and ditch Windows altogether, but there are still a few pieces of software that don't run natively on ...
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Monday, April 28th, 2008
I finally figured out how to fix the 1280x400 framebuffer issue I had. Once upon a time I had fixed this, but I needed to fix it again after the upgrade. This is allows me to have terminals (ctrl+alt+F1-F6) that display at a full 1280x800. I like to keep a ...
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Monday, April 28th, 2008
The dust has finally settled and I have everything exactly the way I like it. I'm very picky about my Linux setup and I have my preferences for various apps. Ubuntu gives you passable default apps in the default install, but I'm a creature of habit and I like to ...
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Today is Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron release day. As I type, I'm in the process of upgrading. For those that don't know, Ubuntu is the Linux distribution I use and unlike MS Windows, Ubuntu releases a full operating system update every 6 months. Each update gets a version number based ...
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
No one will argue that the MP3 audio compression codec has changed the world. It makes it possible for us to fit 1000s of songs in our pockets and eases the bandwidth impact of streaming audio. But is this it? Is MP3 the end? Of course not. Dozens of similar ...
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
Yesterday we went on a file storage expedition. We made the trip to Fry's Electronics and looked at hard drives. They had Maxtor 500 GB SATA hard drives for $89. We bought 2. Also, since I don't feel like using a keyboard and mouse all day, I got a ...
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Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
There is a new woman in my life and her name is Elisa. And don't worry, Corin's cool with it. In fact it's more like a polyamorous relationship. Ok, stop freaking out. I'm talking about the totally fuckin' bitchin' media center front end I installed on my media server! It's.So.Rad.Here ...
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Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
It's old news to people that know me, but for the benefit of the new people I should mention that I'm an avid obsessive Linux user and an open source software fan zealot. I primarily use Ubuntu on my laptop and dual-boot in to Windows for Ableton Live, iPod syncing, ...
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Just wanted to drop a note to ya'll about this great program called Handbrake. It converts a DVD to a compressed video file in a variety of containers and codecs (Mpeg 4, Xvid and h.264; mp4, m4v, avi, ogm, mkv). The nice bit is that it has a bunch of ...
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