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Amazon.com: Installing Linux on a Dead Badger: Lucy A. Snyder: Books

16-Nov-08

Installing Linux on a Dead Badger (Paperback) Amazon.com: Installing Linux on a Dead Badger: Lucy A. Snyder: Books. Installing Linux on a Dead Badger (and Other Oddities) contains a dozen stories to amuse any fan of technology humor or science fictional dark comedy. Many of the stories are what Green Man Review has dubbed “cyberzombie [...]

Intrepid Ibex aka Ubuntu 8.10

08-Nov-08

The latest version of Ubuntu was released last month and I finally took the time tonight to install it on my tablet.  I’d tried an upgrade from Hardy but had little luck with that.  To be fair I don’t think it was so much a problem with the upgrade process as it was with my [...]

How Long Would You Survive?

31-Oct-08

I could survive for 1 minute, 28 seconds chained to a bunk bed with a velociraptor Created by Bunk Beds.net

Samsung Instinct, Video, and Ubuntu

05-Sep-08

I’ve figured out how to transcode videos for the Samsung Instinct using ffmpeg.  The initial problem I had is the standard Ubuntu version of ffmpeg does not include aac support.  Fortunately Medibuntu has an ffmpeg package with everything enabled.  You’ll need to add the medibuntu repositories to your system first.  ffmpeg didn’t want to upgrade, [...]

Clusterssh: control serveral ssh sessions via a single interface

18-Dec-07

Clusterssh: control serveral ssh sessions via a single interface Clusterssh is a graphical utility that allows you to open several ssh connections and execute commands simultaneously in all of them. I find it powerful in many cases, for example when I’ve to perform a dist-upgrade on many different servers.

Moody Marlin

20-Oct-07

Moody Marlin is my suggestion for the Ubuntu release that starts with and M, should be sometime in 2010.  Sorry for the quality of the picture.  I took it in low light at about 95 mph.