Apple users love their computers because it’s a slick interface and generally easier to use than machines loaded with M$. They love their Ipod and how well it works with the Itunes music store. I agree that the OSX interface is slick and pretty to look at but take issue with the practices and […]
Dan and me are doing a 2 parter on video editing under linux over at T.W.A.T. Radio.
Here’s the direct link to the mp3 file:
Part 1
The second part will be released next week. Thanks to Dan for editing these episodes. Enjoy!
In my last post I mentioned I upgraded to the latest kernel (2.6.15.1-2) in Arch. One of the benefits is that suspend now works on my laptop! I Just issue the following command:
echo -n “mem” > /sys/power/state
So I created a simple bash script and created a menu item in KDE along with a short cut […]
The other night while recording my next episode of T.W.A.T. I decided to upgrade all the packages on my laptop which runs Arch linux. All the packages downloaded and installed without issue. Like a dolt I didn’t realize it picked up the latest kernel from the Arch repository and forgot to update lilo with the […]
I had a bunch of xvid video files that I wanted to watch on my tv set via my dvd player. Xvid/Divx files are only about 350 meg for an hours worth of video and the quality is very good. Unfortunately most dvd players can’t handle divx or xvid files (the notable exceptions are the […]
One of the things on my list to do was check out VMware Workstation and VMware Player. VMware let’s you install other OS’s in a virtual machine on your computer. I’ve played around with it for a couple days and my opinion is that it’s a pretty amazing piece of software. Check out the following […]
I have a cell phone. I usually leave it on in my car when in transit to and from work in case my wife or my boss needs to get a hold of me. I can see the benefit of having a cell phone if your car breaks down and you need to call for […]
Just read this article about the new version of Wordpress. Sounds real nice. I’ll have to find some time to upgrade to it. This is actually pretty good timing since we’ll be talking to Wordpress’s creator, Matt Mullenweg on January 18th on TLLTS. Should be fun. I’ll post an update soon.
Happy New Year everone! I’ve been pretty busy with family visiting for the holidays. TLLTS as well as my review of the Iaudio x5 audio player was mentioned in this article from Lxer.com. Glad to see other people are reading my postings and finding them somewhat useful. Over the holidays I did 2 linux installs […]