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Category: Linux/Open Source

  • File Organization

    How to Organize your home directory on your linux machine.

  • Archiving and Photos

    I’m way behind on posting; I wanted to throw some stuff here when I am waiting for something to compile. Rsnapshot, a backup utility using rsync. Mike Rubel has written an article about backups with rsync/linux. Here’s a slashdot discussion about digital rot, a very serious problem. I found (and copied about 8-10 pages) of…

  • Linux Commands

    Helpful Linux commands.

  • Video Editing for Linux

    Avidemux, a video editor/outputter. More good resources about video for linux. For those wanting to build a linux PVR, here’s an infrared remote control system.

  • Linux for the Desktop Revisited?

    From a slashdot forum about why linux fails on the desktop: The truth behind it is “ease of use”. MS Visual Studio comes with a bunch of tools in one package, a graphical XML schema editor, a graphical database management system, click-n-paint GUI creation, and to top it off each of those students gets 4…

  • htaccess generator

    Here’s a free online htaccess generator.

  • HDTV vs. Linux vs. USB?

    I’ve been researching TV video capture cards, especially before it becomes illegal to buy capture cards lacking the infamous broadcast flag. Here are some handy things: How to Convert VHS tapes to DVD using a capture card. USB-based TV tuners, A USB/HDTV solution, a how-to on installing a linux-based PVR, Myth TV, linux TV laptop…

  • Gimp Tutorials

    Some Gimp Tutorials . Also xnview , an excellent cross-platform free photo catalog with EXIF and IPTC support. Interestingly, there is a deluxe version for Windows platform only.

  • Freedom of Expression has a Price

    From Berkley’s excellent China Digital News, I find Li Yong Yan’s excellent article about the inconsistencies of mainland China’s censorship: The Internet is supposed to be borderless and limitless in the exchange of information and ideas. But using sophisticated fire walls from capitalist Cisco and other vendors, China blocks all those overseas Chinese websites that…

  • Business Case for Open Office

    A compelling business case for switching to OpenOffice.

  • Essence of Open Source

    Joel Burton said at the recent plone conference: “Open Source is about receiving obsessive emails from complete strangers.”

  • Dreamweaver on Linux!

    According to a slashdot posting, Crossover Office has made Dreamweaver and Flash work in Linux. On a side note, let me mention that I have two machines at home, a linux server and a dual boot which inevitably stays in Windows. Dreamweaver was a big reason for this (as was time–I haven’t gotten around to…

  • Bruce Perens Open Source Books

    Bruce Perens’ Open Source Series is available for free download!

  • Dance Dance Revolution

    Hiding p2p identities with proxy servers. Mark Glaser writes an article about whether Are Online Search Tools Lulling Journalists Into Laziness?. He quotes Eric Meyer: “Never has it been easier to seem to do more in less time,” Meyer said via e-mail. “The operative word is ‘seem.’ A journalist can now find a story almost…

  • 420 Gigabytes!

    Not that I expect any awards, but I just realized that my two computers have a total of 420 gigabytes! Am I a man or what?

  • Linux v. Radeon

    I run gentoo linux on both my machines at home. Even though it has a learning curve, I’ve generally been happy. I knew that with linux 3-D support of Radeon videocard would be wishful thinking, but Gentoo forum has an awfully long thread about Gentoo and Radeon. As complex as it sounds, it actually sounds…