I discovered that there was a local Linux User Group which was meeting once a month at a college not far from my house and I decided to stop by at their last meeting so that I could meet fellow GNU/Linux enthusiasts.
I guess I had my expectations set ...
read moreThe CRT monitor which was part of my dual screen setup finally become bad enough to warrant a replacement and after some thought I have decided to move away from a dual screen configuration to a single wide screen LCD with a resolution of 1680x1050.
Even though I obviously lost ...
read moreI have been enjoying an excellent little script for listening to albums on Jamendo and I thought it deserved some more exposure. It was written by Emmanuele Massimi (a.k.a. finferflu) and requires MPD, mpc, & w3m to function.
If you spend a bunch of time at the command line ...
read moreI was wandering across the Internet recently and was pleased to discover that BBSing is still alive after all of these years. To make a long story short, I accessed a few systems via telnet and ended up registering on two of them.
There is nothing quite like the nostalgic ...
read moreThe Linux Foundation has launched a podcast series that will feature interviews with various leaders of the open source movement. Their first podcast which is the first half of a two part interview features Linus Torvalds.
I have to say that their first podcast was pretty decent overall. The only ...
read moreI wanted to wish everyone out there a happy new year.
Hopefully you all had a relatively safe night and didn't get too drunk during the celebration.
On the flip side you just might gain superhuman programming ability for the duration of your drunken stupor according to xkcd. If ...
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