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Archive for September, 2005

Export scripts in Kino

Thursday, September 29th, 2005

Lately I’ve been getting into video editing editing with Kino. I’m basically editing lot’s of home movies of my son from the last couple of years to ultimately burn to DVD and distribute to the family. After editing the video I was planning on creating a DVD with menus with either Qdvdauthor or DVDStyler. […]

Cellphone progress

Saturday, September 24th, 2005

Check out some of the pictures I pulled off my cell phone that I took a couple weeks back when doing the show:

I uploaded some graphics to customize my cell phone with a definite GNU/Linux look and feel:

I then created some ring tones of my favorite songs using Audacity by following the instructions in […]

Cellphone update

Friday, September 23rd, 2005

Previously I was not able to pull and push files to/from my cell phone. Every time I tried to access the files on the phone I was prompted for a pin number on the phone. The phone’s pin was set as the default and would reject the number I entered even though it was correct. […]

Hacking your bluetooth cell phone in linux

Tuesday, September 20th, 2005

I recently picked up a new Motorola V551 cell phone:

It’s a pretty nice phone with lots of capabilities. You can take pictures, record short little video clips as well as voice recordings. According to the phone company the only way to get the files off the phone is to email them using their service. Of […]

Get off your ass and learn something!

Thursday, September 15th, 2005

On last night’s episode of TLLTS we spoke to Aaron Segio from the KDE project. He’s a really bright guy who has a solid grasp of linux on the desktop and where it needs to go. It sounds like KDE is moving in the right direction and becoming better with every release. Afterwards I realized […]

HP laptop with customized version of Ubuntu?!

Monday, September 12th, 2005

I recently read this article about HP offering their NX6110 laptop with a specialized version of Ubuntu with full hardware support out of the box. Supposedly this will only be offered in South Africa. I went over to the HP website and noticed that it currently sells for $699-$100 rebate for $599. Not bad considering […]

Can you spare a drive buddy?

Monday, September 12th, 2005

I have a spare 120 gig Seagate drive that I bought last year for $40. I might as well put it to good use so I picked up a Bytecc ME-320 externel usb drive case from newegg for $33:

What’s nice about this case is that it has an internel power supply so you don’t have […]

Episode 100, WOOT!

Thursday, September 8th, 2005

Last night was the 100th episode of The Linux Link Tech Show. We had Jon Watson and Kelly Penguin Girl from The GNU/Linux User Show, author and columnist Marcel Gagne and Droops from Infonomicon Media. We were also going to have Doc Searls and Jeremy Garcia from linuxquestions.org but they couldn’t make it. It was […]

Please help those who really need it!

Tuesday, September 6th, 2005

Please donate anything you can to help the victims of hurricane Katrina:
American Red Cross
Salvation Army
Americares

DRM screws people who are honest

Sunday, September 4th, 2005

Lately on The Linux Link Tech Show we’ve been talking a lot about DRM (digital rights management) and online music stores. I’ve previously posted about great sites such as Magnatune and MP3Tunes that offer independent music with no DRM. What if you want to buy something from ITunes? Well the music they sell is in […]

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