Something to do with free software
Staying in shape with open source software
On a good week, I consider myself an avid runner. Right now I’m training to run a 5k in the spring. Ideally, I’ll be able […]
Free Software
LFS: Installing VLC
Since the install of Linux From Scratch, one of the main issues I’ve been having is the playback of audio and video files. VLC does […]
Dropbox Meets Gentoo
So I’m a big Dropbox user. I primarily use it to keep my personal info synchronized between my machines (don’t worry, I encrypt my stuff […]
Linux From Scratch: We Have Lift-off…
Hi Everyone, Now that I have a relatively stable environment, I just wanted to write an update of how things went, and some issues that […]
KDE4, LFS: Make GTK Applications Look Like QT4 Applications
Do your GTK applications (i.e. Firefox) look like something designed in the 90’s in KDE? I think I can help you. I installed the latest […]
LFS, pre-KDE: Errors Compiling qca-2.0.3
If you’re going through the Beyond Linux From Scratch guide, and run into this error while compiling qca-2.0.3 (and I assume many other versions of […]
Bye Bye Bodhi
Ah Linux One website lists ten reasons to use linux my favourites of which are “Linux is easier to use than Windows” and “Linux is […]
Linux from Scratch: A Cautionary Tale, Part 2
What Next? Chroot Once you get into the chroot environment, you will get the incredibly annoying PC speaker beep every time you foul up a […]
Linux from Scratch: A Cautionary Tale, Part 1
And I’m started with Linux from Scratch! Here are some helpful pointers for anyone considering running LFS on their own. Caution: this is highly nerdy […]
Richard M. Stallman: Troll
If you’ve been living under a rock for the past week, you may not be aware that Steve Jobs, co-founder and legendary CEO of Apple […]
Create a GStreamer powered Java media player
For something to do I decided to see if I could create a very simple Java media player. After doing some research, and finding out […]
How to Compile Banshee 1.9.0 on Ubuntu 10.04
Regular readers of this site will know that I’m no fan of Rhythmbox. When I recently installed Ubuntu 10.04 on my desktop PC, I decided […]
Create a GTK+ application on Linux with Objective-C
As sort of follow-up-in-spirit to my older post I decided to share a really straight forward way to use Objective-C to build GTK+ applications. Objective-what? […]
My Search for the Best Audio Editing Software
Lately, I’ve been doing some audio recording. In addition to a couple of podcasts that I work on, I occasionally like to record my own […]
Linux Media Players Suck – Part 1: Rhythmbox
The state of media players on Linux is a sad one indeed. If you’re a platform enthusiast, you may want to cover your ears and […]
Vorbis is not Theora
Recently I have started to mess around with the Vorbis audio codec, commonly found within the Ogg media container. Unlike Theora, which I had also […]
Adobe Air and Fedora 12
This weekend, I installed Fedora 12 (Constantine) on my laptop, and I have to say that so far, I’m impressed. Thanks to the standard GNOME […]
The Great Linux Browser War (Well… sort of)
Recently while browsing the Internet I noticed that Mozilla Firefox was taking up an awfully large amount of RAM. In fact it’s RAM use continued […]
Using KDE on Windows
Since the end of The Linux Experiment I have started dual booting my laptop, switching between Kubuntu 9.10 and Windows 7 as needed. While this […]
Finally Synching my Blackberry on Linux
Some readers may recall all of the attempts that I’ve made in the past to synchronize my Blackberry with Mozilla’s Thunderbird email and calendar client. […]