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Hulu’s Streaming FAIL
There’ve been a lot of people recently on the MythTv mailing list talking about Boxee as a convenient way to was content on Hulu. However, the Boxee developers have blogged that Hulu has nixed that idea. (And here’s Hulu’s side of the story) I read a bunch of comments as well as both of those…
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Review: openSuse 11.1
After reading through LXF, I tried loading openSuse 11.1 with the failsafe settings and it worked in VirtualBox. So I’ll now be reviewing openSuse 11.1. Here’s the screen as it booted up. and after it loads up, it gives a nice explanatory screen. So I last looked at openSuse 11.0 in Aug 2008. I’m not…
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Review: Linux Mint 6
The latest LXF magazine arrived with Linux Mint 6, Slackware 12.2, and openSuse 11.1. I was originally going to review openSuse, but I have been unable to successfully boot either into VirtualBox or just by booting my computer and running it as a LiveDVD. (ed. note: I just checked the magazine and they suggested booting…
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Happy Valentine’s Day!
Especially to my beautiful wife!
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Review: Fedora 10
This month’s Linux Format Magazine includes Fedora 10. I upgraded to Fedora 10 a few months ago via a yum upgrade. I started by looking at Xfce as I’ve been using Xfce non-stop ever since starting “I’m Not Mad” in November. Xfce is much lighter than Gnome and I’m able to use Blender more effectively. …
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Picture of the Day
I’ve started up Picture of the Day again in an attempt to hone my photography skills. Here are the last three entries – ending with the one for today.
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Review: Roku Box
I’ve had the Roku Box for a few months now. It costs $99 and I bought it for one simple reason: my wife and I object to having to use Windows and Internet Explorer to watch Netflix’s Instant Programs. As a secondary reason, we’re not in college anymore and we object to having to watch…
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Hawaii Trip and Pictures
During inaugural week I was in Hawaii. Given how cold it was in the Balitmore/DC area that week, I can’t say I wasn’t happy to be there. I stayed at the Embassy Suites Beach Walk in Waikiki and I cannot say enough good things about the hotel. When we first checked in we were offered…
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Blasted!
I had done a second review of Gentoo 2008.0. People suggested I do a completely commandline install and I did. But my blog post got corrupted and I’m not typing that up again. My Gentoo install was unsuccessful anyway. So I fared no better with the commandline than with the GUI install. I’ll give it…
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Changing Themes Again
I last changed themes in April 2008. It hasn’t quite been a year yet, but as was the trigger last time, the latest version of wordpress doesn’t work with this theme. Last time it was tags and the time before that it was widgets. Now I want a theme that fully supports WordPress 2.7 –…
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flickr programmers are fans of The Simpsons
The other day I was messing around with flickr’s slideshow feature and I came across this: And here it is zoomed in: This comes from an episode where the characters are discussing the founder of Springfield who uses the word Embiggen and some teachers debate whether it’s a real word. I love the way programmer…
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Review: The Discworld Series
Last week I finished the Discworld Series. I started with a few books early in 2008. From the first book, The Color of Magic, I fell in love with the series. Although I have found British television and movies to be hit or miss, I have loved all of the geek genre British books. So…