After upgrading my laptop to the latest versions of xorg and udev in Arch Linux my laptop starting acting very strangely. Automounting of devices became sporatic and my network interfaces were not loading up correctly. It was very frustating as I really like Arch Linux. So much that I recently donated some money to the […]
I noticed that Staples was selling spindles of 50 dvds for $5 a piece for President’s Day. I got my ass over there and bought 300 DVDs for $30. I also picked up a buch of CDs as well. I spent most of yesterday burning CDs & DVDs for the upcoming Linux World Expo in […]
I got a chance to watch a marathon of a series called 30 Days on FX. This is written, produced and directed by Morgan Spurlock, the guy behind Supersize Me. The episodes were fantastic. The basic premise of the show is to put people in situtions completely different than their current existance. They might […]
Had a fairly quiet weekend with a blizzard blowing through this weekend. I did a minimal amount of techie stuff but I did get a chance to download, re-encode, burn and watch the first 3 episodes of The IT Crowd from Channel 4 in Britain. The basic premise of the show is that a […]
As I discussed in my previous post I had trouble with a 1 gig memory stick I picked up for my laptop. I returned it to the vendor I purchased it from at the computer show. I then went ahead and ordered a Crucial 1 gig stick from newegg.com. It was delivered to my house […]
Linc and Dan were talking about hitting the MarketPro computer show at the Allentown fair grounds. This show comes around every couple of months and features vendors selling all sorts of computer parts, gadgets and other interesting stuff. Now I wanted to upgrade my laptop to 1 gig of memory. Also my old HP deskjet […]
Here’s part 2 of Dan and myself talking about video editing and DVD authoring under linux.