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Why I’m Still Waiting to Upgrade to Fedora 9
I’m not 100% sure, but I think this is the longest I’ve purposely waited to upgrade to another Fedora release. I’ve been reading the Fedora user and developer mailling lists and what’s I’ve seen there has pretty much convinced me not to upgrade. First of all, there are a lot of answers to people complaining…
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Fish Wish, A Vancouver Film School Project
I found this online and I think it’s cute. Scientifically, however, I have a bit of a problem with the ending.
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Valve To Release Steam on Linux?
I heard this on The Linux Outlaws Episode 42 and I thought it was a pretty awesome idea. Up until now Valve has been pretty hostile towards people asking them to release onto Linux, even threatening to ban anyone who brought it up in the forums. Apparently someone has convinced them of the merits because…
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Mandriva Linux One Spring 2008 Review
Dang that’s a mouth-full! Let’s break it down a bit for anyone who may not be familiar with the lingo surrounding this very blue Linux. Mandriva Linux is the name of this distro. One is the name of the sub-distro. The choices are Free, One, and PowerPack. Free only contains free software. One is free…
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The Neuros OSD
The Neuros OSD is a device created by Neuros Technology. This is a device I am REALLY excited about buying. I first heard about it in the latest issue of Linux Format Magazine, which gave it a rating of 9/10. What’s so awesome about this device? It runs Linux! “So what?” You may say, “So…
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How the sciences see each other
Amongst the professors in college and amonst us graduates of scientific fields, here’s how people tend to feel. (courtesy of xkcd): thanks to Randall Monroe’s use of the Creative Commons, enjoy this great twist on the comic by Mark Pilgrim.
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More Quotes!
It’s time once again for me to empty my AIM profile and provide you with some quotes! Enjoy! ?”…never enter an arse-kicking contest with a porcupine.” – Conina in Terry Prachet’s “Sorcerer” “I have a unicorn for you” – Chris to Lauren Mat to 6 yr old son: “Should we make mom breakfast in bed?”…
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For all those traveling by air today
Enjoy this xkcd:
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Flock keeps getting more and more useful!
At this rate, I’ll never be able to kick the Flock habit. Ever since, as I blogged before, they fixed their problem with stuttering YouTube videos, I’ve been able to use Flock for my main Windows browser day-in and day-out. Now they’ve added even more features! First of all, I think it’s neat that they’ve…
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Revisiting the Experiment
Almost a year ago, I mentioned that I had discovered the site www.mytoons.com. In that blog post I mentioned that I felt my animation wasn’t really getting the amount of views I hoped they would get. So I put my animation on mytoons and when the results weren’t immediately different, I completely forgot about my…
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Foresight Linux Review
Foresight Linux was supplied on the most recent Linux Format Magazine disc. Unfortunately, the distro doesn’t run in LiveCD mode (or at least such an ISO was not provided) so I decided to try it out in Virtualbox, which I have heard so much about. It appears to be equivalent to VMWare while also being…
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Twitter-like Post
A few quickies. 1) I fixed up a bunch of my links. Some of them led to websites that no longer existed, one domain had been bought by a pr0n website. So all my links should go to where they’re supposed to now. 2) I haven’t updated to Feodra 9 yet because I keep hearing that Fedora really jumped the gun on this release and there’s still a ton of stuff broken. Since I use Fedora as my main daily computer, I can’t really sit there wasting time debugging it – especially since I’ve got a few animations that I’m working on. I’ll move it it when it gets a bit more stable. I’m thinking of maybe moving to another distro in the future. Perhaps Mandriva….we’ll see.
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Big Buck Bunny has been Released to the net!
Big Buck Bunny from Blender Foundation on Vimeo. Here’s the Blender Institute’s latest movie. It’s much, much better than Elephants Dream. Check it out!
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Gnome Music Player Showdown
I’ve been reading a lot of reviews recently about the upcoming Banshee 1.0. (Arstechnica and Linux Magazine, for example) It looks like it’s going to be an awesome release, but I wanted to see where it is now and compare that to Rhythmbox. As I mentioned here, I switched to Rhythmbox in May 2007 (a…