Archive for September, 2006
Thursday, September 28th, 2006
See changes word by word with dwdiff
Nice tool for writers."Unix text utilities were designed primarily for programmers and admins, but here's a little secret: the utilities also work well for writers. Instead of using diff to see changes between programs, I often use diff utilities to see w
(tags: linux diff ...
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Wednesday, September 27th, 2006
Fender Players Club - Blues Guitar Lessons
Online blues guitar lessons from Fender.
(tags: guitar blues lessons)
Styles - Blues Index
Guitar instruction
(tags: guitar music lessons)
R. Crumb's "Heroes of the Blues"
I first saw illustrator R. Crumbs work in the late '60s, when I read the incomparable Zap Comics. Here are his portraits of ...
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Tuesday, September 26th, 2006
Tabblo
Online photo app. Create photo montages with written narration.
(tags: photography web2.0 tools)
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Friday, September 22nd, 2006
whocalled.us
Find out who's calling.
(tags: activism phone services)
Getting Finances Done
Your guide to stress-free financial control.
(tags: finance hacks tips)
ITtoolbox Linux Knowledge Base
The Linux area of the iToolbox technology and IT social networking site.
(tags: linux networking troubleshooting howto)
MLB Tracker - Watch MLB Games on you Blackberry
MLB Tracker is an application written for the ...
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Thursday, September 21st, 2006
All about Linux: A visual walk through of a couple of the new features in Vim 7.0
Just for once, I wouldn't mind siding with the beast if that is what it takes to use Vi. The modern avatar of Vi is Vim - the free editor created by Bram Moolenaar. ...
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Wednesday, September 13th, 2006
How-To: Serve video to your TiVo - Engadget
Today we'll be using a piece of software called TivoServer to set up a... TiVo server. Because the TiVo is designed to only play back TiVo recorded video, it can't play back video that's been encoded in other formats. The nice thing about ...
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Tuesday, September 12th, 2006
Hack Attack: Top 10 Ubuntu apps and tweaks - Lifehacker
After a little searching around the interweb, however, I've been more than impressed with the number of great, full-featured applications available for Linux, many of which outshine their Windows counterparts. And what's best - they're all totally free. H
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Tuesday, September 12th, 2006
Cheers to MSNBC's Keith Olbermann for some tough words in last night's "Countdown with Keith Olbermann." It's the only 9/11 coverage I watched, and all I needed.
And lastly tonight a Special Comment on why we are here.
Half a lifetime ago, I worked in this now-empty space. And for 40 days ...
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Wednesday, September 6th, 2006
Do everything right from the command line
But what do you do when the resources you need reside on a remote system on your wide-area network (WAN) and on the global Internet? To quote The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, "don't panic!". The UNIX command line readily downloads and uploads files,
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Tuesday, September 5th, 2006
Here's a snippet of an announcement I made this morning on The Roadhouse:
The Beta Roadhouse Premium subscription is now available here. This version of the show is ad-free and encoded at 160 Kbps. Without the ads, there will be addtional cuts in each premium show not found in the ad-supported ...
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