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 […]
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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 […]
Great Success!
Just a quick note tonight – I finally managed to get a bootable Gentoo system installed! After my last post, things were looking pretty grim. […]
Kernel Panic!
So like Tyler, I’ve decided to run Gentoo. Hey, it seemed like a good idea at the time. My experience thus far can be summed […]
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 […]
Ubuntu 11.04 Installer Fail
So I decided to take a go at Ubuntu 11.04 in a virtual machine before taking the leap and installing it for real. As I […]
Linux Multimedia Studio on Ubuntu 10.04
Recently, Tyler linked me to Linux Multimedia Studio, a Fruityloops-type application for Linux. Since I’m big into music recording and production, he figured that I’d […]
Recovering a Corrupted Banshee Database
A couple of nights ago, I left Banshee running overnight, filling my phone with music to listen to the next day at work. Sometime during […]
Well, Here Goes Nothing
During a routine update of my Fedora 13 system, I received the following notification: You’ll notice, upon careful inspection, that the update utility would like […]
Why I Hate Samba
This file copy is running over my local wireless network: That is all.
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 […]
Django Development on Ubuntu 10.04
When I’m not rocking out my ninja-like linux skillz here at The Linux Experiment, I like to spend my spare time working on SlightlySauced, a […]
Setting up an Ubuntu-based ASP.NET Server with Mono
Introduction: In my day job, I work as an infrastructure developer for a small company. While I wouldn’t call us a Microsoft shop by any […]
Samsung Captivate SGH-i896 Meets Linux
Yesterday, I picked up the newly launched (in Canada) Samsung Captivate. So far, I’m extremely impressed with the device. The super amoled display is gorgeous, […]
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 […]
Unwanted Effects on my Line-in Interface
Shortly after purchasing an xbox360, I wrote a short piece that gave instructions for forwarding your line-in audio through your pc speakers. By using this […]
A Matter of Opinion
Tonight I installed VirtualBox, an incredibly handy virtualization program that lets me run instances of Windows and other Linux distributions from the comfort of my […]
PulseAudio: Monitoring your Line-In Interface
At home, my setup consists of three machines -Â a laptop, a PC, and an XBOX 360. The latter two share a set of speakers, […]
Adobe + Linux == Balls
This week, I replaced my increasingly infuriating Kubuntu installation with a fresh install of the beautiful Linux Mint 9 Isadora. Just like the project motto […]