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A new use for python
2009.02.18 Wed 2:12 P GMT-07
Apparently, python is now the preferred language for gnome/kde virus/worm writing. Makes sense, it's preinstalled on most linux environments. (Take tongue out of cheek). WRT the actual virus, nothing really too surprising, other than the newbie li
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iSight? We don't need no stinking iSight
2008.03.25 Tue 9:41 A GMT-07
My brother and I have put up a blog discussing our messings with lasers, webcams, wiimotes and python. If you saw his talk at Pycon, and want to play with the code, you can find it there. I recently made the laser stuff work in Linux (hence the tit
Undeleting photos on (gentoo) linux/windows/mac
2008.03.24 Mon 3:54 P GMT-07
This post is preceded by a public service announcement to back up all important data, often. (So far it seems the best way to back up photos is to get them printed/developed).
Had a scare with a half gig compact flash card acting up on me, that cont
Visualizing harddrive space under Linux
2007.05.30 Wed 9:21 P GMT-07
Today, my laptop disk became full. So, I wanted to get the most bang for my buck and not waste my time erasing small files that weren't taking up a bunch of disk space. How does one do that? One way is the command line utility du, but I knew there
In Russia Open Source rescues you
2007.02.08 Thu 10:00 A GMT-07
Given that MS is cracking down on poor Russians (which is weird since rampant piracy of their products only serves to promote their monopoly), I would've thought that some open source vendor would jump in to rescue Mr. Ponosov (head of school mas
Gentoo, i810, AIGLX, Beryl and white screens
2006.11.03 Fri 9:25 A GMT-07
So, last night I tried installing Beryl (since AIGLX and are now in gentoo portage). It seems that the beryl fork of compiz is going well (I wrote about xgl/compiz's (slow) development models a while back).
But even though the community has taken t
Tales of a real life switcher
2006.11.02 Thu 9:36 A GMT-07
I assume most have seen the Apple switch ads. So being the dork I was, I wondered what a Linux person would look like, if he was invited to the meeting of this odd twosome. Well after two or three years of trying with one person I'm finally going t
mounting remote filesystems using sshfs on ubuntu
2006.09.27 Wed 4:46 P GMT-07
Here's a quick command line version based on this blog entry, but containing some steps that it doesn't cover. (I've done this twice in the past month or so, so I thought I'd share the joy)
SSHFS is an adaption of FUSE. FUSE, for those who don't
The times they are a-changin'
2006.08.28 Mon 10:53 P GMT-07
Come gather round people.... (yes I've been listening to too much Dylan lately).
So my trusty 4 year old wireless router (netgear wgr614 rev1) apparently gave up some sort of ghost recently. The ethernet ports still route, and the wireless still
Bad memory? Ubuntu (memtest86) to the rescue...
2006.07.28 Fri 7:59 A GMT-07
My gentoo desktop machine has been acting flakey recently. Apps stop responding, network inconsistent. Sounds like a hardware problem. So I figured I would check my memory. Memtest86 to the rescue. Thanks to Ubuntu I had a live cd with memtest86
Googleearth on Linux! Give me back my web
2006.06.13 Tue 7:04 A GMT-07
Kudos to Google for actually being forward thinking enough to release client software for linux.
One problem.... I guess my Thinkpad is a little underpowered for this app. It is way too SLOW! Painful and annoying to use. I guess I'm back to g
Howto create a basic screencast with Linux
2006.03.31 Fri 12:04 A GMT-07
Learn with me as I experiment with pyvnc2swf. Hopefully I'll have a short series of howtos on creating a screencast (including mixing sound and that sort of fun stuff).
First you'll need a few things for a basic (soundless) screencast:
vnc
pyvn
How to create divx videos for Philips 642 DVD Player using Linux?
2005.10.20 Thu 9:12 P GMT-07
Yes that title is a question not an answer. A short amount of scouring the internet turned up nothing.
We recently purchased a Canon S1 camera that takes pretty good mjpeg videos. Our DVD player, the Philips 642 will play divx video, yet I can
Using the iPod Nano on linux...
2005.09.26 Mon 10:17 P GMT-07
1. Charge it
2. Set up udev:
from dmesg:
usb-storage: device found at 2
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
Vendor: Apple Model: iPod Rev: 1.62
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revi
Using the Samsung ML-2010 laser printer with Linux
2005.08.31 Wed 11:46 P GMT-07
Our 5 year old inkjet printer has been making loud annoying noises and refusing to print midway through a page. So this last weekend I decided to replace it with a laser printer (we only really used color for printing photos, and since 1hour kiosks
Are there areas where Open Source won't work?
2005.08.08 Mon 11:24 P GMT-07
One of the biggest shockers for me at OSCON happened during the first day. I was sitting in the second row of the Rails session and I looked behind me to see what type of laptops people were using. I would guess that 80% were PowerBooks. Of the x8
A common muggle against he who shall be (or is) named Bill Gates
2005.07.25 Mon 10:28 P GMT-07
Argghh, Windows keeps coming back to bite me. (Or rather me being a "nerd" means I give free support to my friends, who sadly all run some variant of windows) While having dinner with some friends tonight (who happen to be another uninformed comput
Testing - an afterthought for opensource?
2005.07.20 Wed 11:04 P GMT-07
From my experience commercial testing of software consists of manual qa (grunt labor). Little is automated. I personally feel that even with a slight investment by developers to create unit tests, that effort would pay off later (especially in the
Linus on Open Source Evolution and Competition (.... and Robbins joins MS )
2005.06.21 Tue 10:42 P GMT-07
I read an interesting interview with Linus. I would recommend reading the whole interview, which is pretty short but here are some highlights that tend to support some things I have been claiming.
Outcome of Robbins joining MS...
