Installing Ubuntu on a Raspberry Pi 400 from Windows 10
I recently picked up a Raspberry Pi 400 for my in-laws. Having gifted them many a hand-me-down laptop over the years, I was immediately struck […]
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Blast from the Past: My Search for the Best Audio Editing Software
This post was originally published on October 6, 2010. The original can be found here. Lately, I’ve been doing some audio recording. In addition to a […]
Blast from the Past: A Practical Reference of Linux Commands
This post was originally published on February 19, 2010. The original can be found here. Just wanted to share a link to a great table that […]
Ripping DVDs on Ubuntu 14.04
Remember DVDs? For those of you too young to have had to deal with the hassle of physical media, DVDs were how us old folks […]
Blast from the Past: The Distributions of Debian
This post was originally published on August 21, 2009. The original can be found here. Like many of the other varieties of Linux, Debian gives […]
Resizing and Correctly Orienting Images with Mogrify
Lately, I’ve been publishing woodworking tutorials over on my own blog, and I’ve found myself needing to resize and correctly orient images taken with my […]
Blast from the Past: Linux Media Players Suck – Part 1: Rhythmbox
This post was originally published on May 5, 2010. The original can be found here. The state of media players on Linux is a sad […]
Blast from the Past: Going Linux, Once and for All
This post was originally published on December 23, 2009. The original can be found here. With the linux experiment coming to an end, and my […]
Blast from the Past: Coming to Grips with Reality
This post was originally published on December 8, 2009. The original can be found here. The following is a cautionary tale about putting more trust […]
Blast from the Past: How is it doing that?
This post was originally published on December 15, 2009. The original can be found here. Just about everything that I’ve ever read about media playback […]
Playing the Simpsons Theme on an Arduino
A little while back, I picked up an Arduino Starter Kit. It contains an Arduino Uno, a bunch of common components, and an instruction book […]
Installing ROS on a Raspberry Pi
As a lover of technology, I tend to accumulate bits and pieces of interesting devices. Usually, these are purchased for use on unrelated projects, and […]
Cloud Saves for Minecraft
I’ve recently become addicted to Minecraft. I realize that I’m late to this game, having only recently discovered it despite its popularity over the past […]
WTF Ubuntu
I’m not even sure what to say about this one… it looks like I might have an angry video card.
Dual Booting Ubuntu 13.04 and Windows 8 on a Lenovo Y400 IdeaPad
With the third edition of The Linux Experiment already underway, I decided to get my new laptop set up with an Ubuntu partition to work […]
Querying the State of a Hardware WiFi Switch with RF-Kill
The laptop that I’m writing this post from has a really annoying strip of touch-response buttons above the keyboard that control things like volume and […]
Python Development on Linux and Why You Should Too
If you’re a programmer and you use Linux but you haven’t yet entered the amazing world that is Python development, you’re really missing out on […]
Batch Converting FLAC to MP3
I came across this neat script somewhere on the internet while trying to batch convert a folder full of FLAC files to mp3 files. Hopefully […]
Wireless Networking: Using a Cisco/Linksys WUSB54GC on Gentoo
We live in an old house, which has the unfortunate side-effect of lacking a wired network of any kind. All of our machines connect to […]
Can you install Gnome3 on Gentoo?
So my base Gentoo installation came with Gnome 2.3, which while solid, lacks a lot of the prettiness of Gnome’s latest 3.2 release. I thought […]