Every so often I get an impulsive desire to try something new and yesterday morning was no different.
While sitting at the computer and catching up on my RSS feeds I decided it was time to take zsh for a spin and thus my adventure for the day had begun ...
read moreI was recently looking around for a new light-weight web browser to possibly replace dillo on my laptop and I stumbled upon Hv3 (Html Viewer 3), a small Tcl/Tk browser powered by Tkhtml3.
I played around with it for awhile today and I have to say that I found ...
read moreI was roaming around one of my local electronics stores today and decided to purchase an Sandisk Sansa e250R MP3 player since I wanted a shiny new Rockbox powered player.
Unfortunately, after playing around with the e250R for a little while and being unable to patch the bootloader, I discovered ...
read moreHow many of you out there hate to see aging computers go to waste?
I guess you could say that I have a bit of available soft spot for them because I have a habit of acquiring these machines from people and fixing them up when necessary so they can ...
read moreWhat is your preferred text editor for the console? If you select 'Other', please let me know what you use.
Poll Results:
GNU Emacs: 9% (37 votes)
GNU nano: 26% (104 votes)
JOE: 10% (39 votes)
VI / Vim: 41% (161 votes)
Other: 13% (52 votes)
Total votes: 393
I was finally able to convince my sister to make the switch to GNU/Linux a few months back and I am pleased to say that she is still happily chugging along with it.
She is not computer savvy and was initially being worried that her pictures and other files ...
read moreI was going through my music collection recently and I noticed that a rather considerable percentage was from Jamendo, a community dedicated to Creative Commons licensed music.
To be honest, it wasn't really a surprise to me as it simply confirmed what I already assumed. I figured I would ...
read moreGamepark Holdings recently unveiled their newest model of the Linux-based GP2X hand-held.
I had held off from posting about it while I waited for more information to appear, but since a promotional video surfaced on YouTube today I figured it was time to weigh in on the GP2X-F200.
The F200 ...
read morePoll Results:
GRand Unified Bootloader (GRUB): 89% (59 votes)
The Linux Loader (LILO): 11% (7 votes)
Total votes: 66