Archive for December, 2006
Wednesday, December 20th, 2006
MacLibre » MacLibre is an Open Source Software Distribution for Mac OS X. It's simple, intuitive with applications you need. It brings a new way of software installation on your Mac.
Socialtext Open Source Wiki » Welcome to the Socialtext Open Source Workspace. You'll find the source code, documentation, news, and ...
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Tuesday, December 19th, 2006
The Mini arrived yesterday afternoon and I got to spend most of the evening (through 12:30 AM) playing and setting things up.
The first issue was being able to access my NFS share on the Linux box that stores all 10,051 music files. I really wanted to get away from using ...
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Tuesday, December 19th, 2006
Ubuntu Edgy under Parallels Desktop for mac | Muffin Research Labs by Stuart Colville » As Ubuntu Edgy has not long been released I thought I would see how it runs on parallels desktop for mac. I downloaded the standard .iso and followed pretty much the same instructions as when ...
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Monday, December 18th, 2006
On a whim, I rolled the Ubuntu desktop from Dapper Drake to Edgy Eft yesterday. I usually do these things in a fit of boredom, and usually on Sundays. Occasionally, the upgrades haven't gone so well, and my bored Sunday has turned into a chase to fix what broke.
Not so ...
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Monday, December 18th, 2006
Stunnel.org » Stunnel is a program that allows you to encrypt arbitrary TCP connections inside SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) available on both Unix and Windows. Stunnel can allow you to secure non-SSL aware daemons and protocols (like POP, IMAP, LDAP, etc) by having Stunn
Embedded linux Primer: Bootloaders > 7.1 Role ...
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Sunday, December 17th, 2006
My daughter was kind enough to get me a guitar for Christmas - a Washburn D10S Dreadnought in black, with a case. Especially for the price, it's a very nice guitar. Good tone. Nice action. And, I didn't have to wait until Christmas to play it.
I've owned an electric for ...
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Saturday, December 16th, 2006
Monitor your Linux computer with machine-generated music » Use Perl and FluidSynth to create a real-time musical composition of your system status. Learn how to integrate various system monitoring data into a harmony-producing, MIDI-controlled audio synthesis. Explore audible information methods and configuration
The cut command » The cut command uses delimiters ...
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Friday, December 15th, 2006
I don't do too many music reviews here, but I picked up some new stuff this week that I have to recommend.
"New stuff," in this case, is a relative term. It's actually new versions of old stuff. The Beatles "Love" release is a startling mashup of classic Beatles from the ...
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Thursday, December 14th, 2006
screen: Keep Your Processes Running Despite A Dropped Connection | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials » I guess you all know this: you are connected to your server with SSH and in the middle of compiling some software (e.g. a new kernel) or doing some other task which takes ...
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Wednesday, December 13th, 2006
Five weeks later, the mid-term elections of 2006 are finally over.
MSNBC First Read
Voters rebuked House Republicans in the 2006 midterm elections one last time yesterday, ousting Republican Rep. Henry Bonilla from Texas' 23rd district in favor of Democrat Ciro Rodriguez, a former member who lost his seat and lost his ...
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