Archive for the ‘Linux’ Category
Monday, July 7th, 2008
Hans Reiser Leads Police to Nina's Body
Hans Reiser, the Linux programmer convicted in April of killing his wife, Nina Reiser, led authorities to her body Monday evening.
To all the people who claimed that there was no way he could have done it: "Is it too early to say I told ...
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Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
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.
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Saturday, October 20th, 2007
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. I'll be driving by a lot this winter so I'll be sure to get ...
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Thursday, June 21st, 2007
I'm documenting this for my own use and hopefully someone else can benefit from this.
Transcode has a useful utility called tccat that can read from a DVD and output a single vob file. I use it to rip the feature title to a single file for later conversion to ...
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Wednesday, February 21st, 2007
Linux.com | ESR gives up on Fedora
ESR gives up on Fedora
For the record, I gave up on Fedora for exactly the same reasons about a year ago. Ubuntu rocks, and to date I've only had one small dependency issue which occured when I attempted to jump two full versions ...
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Thursday, January 25th, 2007
Debian Package of the Day » Blog Archive » qalculate: the ultimate desktop calculator
So what is qalculate? First and foremost, its a calculator. Which means that it can do what you typically expect a calculator to do, no surprises there.
A very cool desktop calculator. Handles polynomials, unit conversions, and much ...
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Thursday, October 19th, 2006
Adobe Labs - Downloads: Flash Player 9 Update
Yipee, the Flash Player beta is out for Linux.
Get the Installer for Linux
tar xzvf FP9_plugin_beta_101806.tar.gz
cd flash-player-plugin-9.0.21.55
locate libflashplayer.so (On Ubuntu it's often in /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/)
sudo cp /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/backup.libflashplayer.so
sudo cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so
restart firefox and you should be good to go.
The audio lag in movies seems to ...
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Thursday, June 29th, 2006
CM-X270 Computer-On-Module - XScale PXA270 SBC with WLAN/WiFI 802.11b, 2700G, PCI bus, 100BaseT, Flash Disk, LCD and Audio
The CM-X270 is a small Computer-on-Module board designed to serve as a building block in embedded applications. The CM-X270W has all the components required to run operating systems such as Linux and Windows ...
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Thursday, June 22nd, 2006
Tech-Recipes.com - ZFS: Ten reasons to reformat your hard drives
The much anticipated release of the new ZFS filesystem in Solaris 10 will revolutionize the way system administrators (and executives) think about and work with filesystems.
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Thursday, May 25th, 2006
Apache2 SSL and Subversion in Debian
Debian Sarge comes with an apache2 package. I thought I'd give this a go to get it working with a self signed SSL certificate. However, I had little idea of what I was doing. Eventually I worked it out - and it's easy:
Handy howto on ...
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