Blast from the Past: Vorbis is not Theora
This post was originally published on April 21, 2010. The original can be found here. Recently I have started to mess around with the Vorbis […]
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We want you! (to write for The Linux Experiment)
Are you a Linux user? Thinking about trying your own Linux experiment? Have you ever come across something broken or annoying and figured out a […]
KWLUG: Let’s Encrypt, Cryptocurrencies (2017-02)
This is a podcast presentation from the Kitchener Waterloo Linux Users Group on the topic of Let’s Encrypt, Cryptocurrencies published on February 7th 2017. You can find […]
Setup your own VPN with OpenVPN
Using the excellent Digital Ocean tutorial as my base I decided to setup an OpenVPN server on a Linux Mint 18 computer running on my […]
Blast from the Past: The Search Begins
This post was originally published on July 29, 2009. The original can be found here. 100% fat free Picking a flavour of Linux is like picking […]
KWLUG: Vigrant (2017-01)
This is a podcast presentation from the Kitchener Waterloo Linux Users Group on the topic of Vigrant published on January 9th 2017. You can find […]
Shove ads in your pi-hole!
There are loads of neat little projects out there for your Raspberry Pi from random little hacks all the way up to full scale home automation […]
Blast from the Past: Of filesystems and partitions
This post was originally published on August 25, 2009. The original can be found here. Following from my last post about finalizing all of those […]
Download YouTube videos with youtube-dl
Have you ever wanted to save a YouTube video for offline use? Well now it’s super simple to do with the easy to use command […]
Happy New Year!
Yeah I know technically this is going up a day early but so what? 😛 From all of us at The Linux Experiment we want […]
Fixing Areca Backup on Ubuntu 16.04 (and related distributions)
Seems like I’m at it again, this time fixing Areca Backup on Ubuntu 16.04 (actually Linux Mint 18.1 in my case). For some reason when […]
vi(m) or emacs? Neither, just use nano!
There is quite a funny, almost religious, debate within the Linux community between the two venerable command line text editors vi or Vim and Emacs. […]
Going Linux Podcast (Still Going)
Way back in the early days of The Linux Experiment I came across an excellent podcast called Going Linux which offered beginners advice for those people […]
Help out a project with OpenHatch
OpenHatch is a site that aggregates all of the help postings from a variety of open source projects. It maintains a whole community dedicated to […]
Blast from the Past: Automatically put computer to sleep and wake it up on a schedule
This post was originally published on June 24, 2012. The original can be found here. Ever wanted your computer to be on when you need […]
5 apt tips and tricks
Everyone loves apt. It’s a simple command line tool to install new programs and update your system, but beyond the standard commands like update, install […]
Discover and listen to your next favourite band, all free!
Jamendo is a wonderful website where artists can share their music and fans can listen all for free. The music featured is all released under […]
CoreGTK 3.18.0 Released!
The next version of CoreGTK, version 3.18.0, has been tagged for release! This is the first version of CoreGTK to support GTK+ 3.18. Highlights for […]
Blast from the Past: An Experiment in Transitioning to Open Document Formats
This post was originally published on June 15, 2013. The original can be found here. Recently I read an interesting article by Vint Cerf, mostly […]
Using screen to keep your terminal sessions alive
Have you ever connected to a remote Linux computer, using a… let’s say less than ideal WiFi connection, and started running a command only to […]