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RSS Update

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I’ve been using FeedBurner for so long I’d forgotten about it, not unlike Google who seems to be letting it die a slow death. I’ve disabled my redirects and...

Adventures in CEC

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Our trusty Harmony 880 has decided to start a somewhat rapid plunge into non-usefulness, started with the light no longer coming on when picked up and button...

Fedora 19 Upgrade Gotcha

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While updating my primary VM server at home, I ran into a problem where dracut failed to mount my partitions when it rebooted into the fedup environment. Tu...

Linode hosting

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Did a bit of digging a few weeks ago and came across Linode VPS. With better prices than Slicehost, data centers both here in the US as well as the UK and e...

Moar RAID Win

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Had to upgrade my storage over the past week and decided to see just how good Linux software raid (mdadm) and SATA hot plugging were these days. The current...

Ultimate Phone

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Must have, can’t live without, omg, do wnat!

Summing up my iPhone feelings

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After all the iPhone hype today, Meethune sent me this link that pretty much sums up my attitude these days. Seriously. The iPhone is sub-par hardware with...

Nokia + Hal + Banshee == Music Goodness

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Been playing with Banshee over vaction and got frustrated I couldn’t use it’s automagical conversion for my E71 or N810. Started poking around with the Hal ...

Openid two-factor authentication

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So, went looking around last night at the various Openid options and came across Verisign’s PIP service. I rather liked the idea of using Verisign anyway si...

RIP Mr. Wizard

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One of the great teachers of my childhood has passed away. He made science cool for kids and managed to teach quite a bit in the process. Meh.

Avant + Beryl = :)

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Subversion Avant Window Navigator (AWN) now has support for Beryl window thumbnails. I’ve done up a demo screencast just to show it off:

True Love

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Heartbreaking post from someone that obviously lost the only true love of their life…. Read the sordid tale here.

Dapper and Madwifi

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My primary laptop’s wireless card uses the Atheros chipset, so I’ve been battling with the stock Madwifi drivers shipped with Dapper. Using NetworkManager, ...

New Diet

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A friend of mine sent me details on the hottest new diet craze:

Ouch!

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As a recent survivor of raid crashes, I read the TechCrunch article about CouchSurfing’s demise with great sympathy. However, a comment from someone calling...

Automagical Podcasting

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Rich Burridge posted an article bout using Talkr for automagical conversion of blog posts to podcasts. It’s very simple to setup, works pretty well (tho it ...

George

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Sad thing is, I’ve known people just this stupid… The Chronicles of George

Whisky PC

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Um… Yea… This is pretty damn cool….

OpenSSH Multiplexed

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Meethune showed me a really cool new feature inOpenSSH 4.2 called multiplexing. In short, it allows you to connect once to a remote host, then simply uses a...

Squid virus scanning

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I haven’t tried this, but something like this seems more and more essential these days for those mixed networks… :(

Breezy impressions

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Decided to check out the new Ubuntu Breezy release today and I gotta say, it doesn’t suck… It’s got a recent 2.6.12 kernel, Gnome 2.12 and OpenOffice 1.9.12...

WordPress Patch Update From 1.5.1.2 to 1.5.1.3

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For those that are tired of the “official” method of upgrading (backup, remove, re-install), Angsuman has posted a zip of only the files changed in the 1.5.1...

New Look

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Finally got around to tweaking this template again… It’s still not a finished thing, but I think it’s much sharper (especially in Firefox).

WordPress Bugfix

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Eric Anderson has posted a bugfix for the new plugin options page. More info and the fix is here.

New DVD ripping software

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Came across this earlier… Looks like a promising project using GStreamer for the conversion process. Only supports converting to Theora ATM, but other forma...

StructuredBlogging

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My Dashboard posts lead me to look at StructuredBlogging and I decided to go ahead and implement it here. In short, it’s a way to standardize blogging posts...

More Gnome Bounties

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Ben Maurer has been allocated $3000 by Nat (from Novell’s GNOME Bounties) to offer bounties for memory reduction in Gnome. I think the amount of innovation ...

WP and LDAP

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Alistair Young posted a set of patches for WP 1.5 to allow authentication via LDAP. I’ll have to try this out over the weekend, but the design seems very so...

Love Microsoft?

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If only Microsoft would spend more time and money on making it’s products more robust instead of futile efforts to combat piracy… Imagine a simple check at ...

Feedster

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Started checking out Feedster tonight, so of course I have to claim mine… Could be a pretty cool service if it will import my Liferea opml export properly.

I can almost hear it…

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Looks like Bryan is gonna give us the first real audio cd burning app for Gnome! I’ve been testing Coaster since day one and it’s a really nice burning app,...

Tomboy and Blogging integration

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It’s occured to me that being able to post Tomboy notes directly to a category on a blog would be a Good Thing. I know there’s also a push for evolution-dat...

pam_usb

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Got pam_usb up n running again on my laptop… It was as simple as “emerge pam_usb” and adding a sufficient line to /etc/pam.d/system-auth. Now if the author...

Sweet Case Mod

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Jimbob, Now With 25% More Carbon Monoxide » Bootleg

WTF???

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Seems Distrowatch has information about LinuxToday.com being sponsored by Micro$haft and “displays sponsored anti-Linux content” on the site…

Technorati

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Trying this service out a bit…

RedHat Scammers

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I know this is old news, but I did get this phishy email regarding the fileutils ‘vulnerability’ on RedHat. Since this has come out there’s been all sorts o...

Wow

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Came across this site today looking for some graphics to “borrow” to replace this non-inspiring header and discovered a rarity; Smart, Female, Attractive, *n...

Moore is a pompous ass…

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How can you claim a film is a documentary, yet doctor everything to suit your agenda???

Firefox + Sage = Sweet!

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I’ve been a hardcore Epiphany user since far pre-1.0, but this review changed that for me. Up till now, I’ve been using Liferea for my RSS aggregating, but ...

Gnome fork!

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Some dude going and attempting to fork Gnome… Somehow I just don’t think this one’s gonna fly….

Muine CD Burning Coming…

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Looks like there’s gonna be support for burning cd’s directly from Muine at some point in the very near future… Yay!

Irony and Half-Assed Praise

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The irony is a Microsoft-owned site recommending Mozilla’s Firefox web browser over IE. As for the half-assed part, well, just give the article a glance…

MT New Licensing Scheme

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The folks behind Movable Type have revamped their licensing scheme yet again… This one’s a bit better, but I have a feeling they’ve taken quite a hit after ...

Move From MT to WordPress

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After Movable Type’s move to their new licensing scheme, I’ve decided to move to WordPress. I’ll also be looking at moving all sites I’m running over as I h...

UserLinux

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Found a link to an article in LinuxWorld about Bruce Perens’ newest brainchild, UserLinux. In his white paper, Bruce makes a pretty convicing case for a new...

Novell Linux Certification

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After their aquisition of SuSE and Ximian, looks like Novell is going to have their own NCLE (Novell Certified Linux Engineer) program!.

Translucent X!

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Yup… Keith Packard and the hackers over at Freedesktop.org are making some serious inroads into an X server that supports true translucency. This is gonna ...

KDE 3.2 Beta1

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Just got this release emerged and I gotta say… Just not impressed here.

Citizens Against Common Sense

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I came across this press release linked from Slashdot. Seems that “The Council for Citizens Against Government Waste” has taken exception to Massachusetts m...