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Code Monkey
This song is awesome and, best of all, it’s been released under a Creative Commons license, so I can share it with you all without fear of the RIAA breathing down my neck! I first heard Code Monkey on a recent episode of Linux Outlaws. It’s a song about a code monkey who is having…
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Congrats Danny!
On graduation from Cornell! Although, since you’ve done a summer job every summer, like me, you probably won’t notice that you’ve graduated until winter comes around and you don’t get a winter break.
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5000 Views!
I just can’t wrap my head around the fact that 5000 people have seen this one picture of mine. It’s nuts!
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Blender 2.46 Released! (Yesterday)
Blender 2.46 was released yesterday and it has a whole bunch of new features- mostly created to facilitate production of Big Buck Bunny. What I’m looking forward to the most is hair/fur rendering, any tools that make armatures easier to skin (the bane of my animation hobby!), a cloth simulator, and the improved sequencer which…
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History Meme
[emesa@mario ~]$ uname -a Linux mario.mushroomkingdom 2.6.24.5-85.fc8 #1 SMP Sat Apr 19 12:39:34 EDT 2008 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux [emesa@mario ~]$ history | awk ‘{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] ” ” i}}’ | sort -rn | head 176 ls 172 eog 81 ./makeSpiral.pl 80 cd 61 ./makefibonaccicollage.pl 58 mplayer 51 ./makePolar.pl 36 mv 28 flickr_views.py 24…
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Microsoft DRM Metldown Redux
As I mentioned here, Micro$oft has provided yet another example of why digital restrictions management does nothing but hurt legitimate consumers. To remind you, this is when Microsoft turned off the servers for its ironically named “playsforsure” DRM system. These songs, which consumers would told, would play for sure on any digital media player containing…
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Lightweight Linux Throwdown
I’ve used Damn Small Linux (DSL) quite a bit in the past. Before getting my laptop I used to use it to be able to get a Linux desktop at my in-laws’ house. I decided I wanted to try out some of these other lightweight Linux distros that everyone is always talking about. Even on…
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Fedora 9 Release Story
Fedora usually has a wacky little story to go along with each release. Here’s the one for Fedora 9: An ancient text prophesised this day would come, detailing the fate of all who are willing to accept what is offered to them: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f9/index.html And that day has come: the Computer said “I will convert these…
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Fedora 9 – Sulfur Released
If all goes well, then as this post appears at 1000, Sulfur will be released to the mirrors and available for download! Enjoy! If you download from scratch, be sure to use bit torrent so you can share the bandwidth.
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On LinuxToday Yesterday
Yesterday, to my surprise, when I went to LinuxToday, I found that I had been aggregated! For those (like my wife) who don’t know what this means, it’s more or less the equivalent of a garage band being discovered and being invited to play at The Apollo. I’ve wanted to have my Linux-related blog posts…
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Operating Systems and Sociology
Penguin Pete has started a very interesting view of what drives people to use certain operating systems. You may find part one a little heavy, especially if you don’t know the history behind it. Basically, Pete has been slammed quite a few times for his blasphemous viewpoint that Ubuntu is a watered down version of…
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My Top 10 Most Interesting Pictures
Flickr has a secret algorithm for producing a list of the most interesting pictures. So here are what Flickr thinks are my 10 most interesting pictures. Do you agree?
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Eric the distro reviewer?
I’ve been reading so much about all these Linux distros and I’ve been curious what they’re all about. In particular, Mandriva’s been calling to me a lot because I think that, had Ubuntu not been around, I probably would have installed it on my laptop. I’ve certainly had a bit of interest in the distro.…
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gNewSense 2.0 (deltah) Review
So gNewSense 2.0 came out a few days ago as the gNewSense crew is tracking Ubuntu LTS releases. Of course, the bad part is that there is no upgrade path from gNewSense 1.0 to 2.0. Ubuntu recommends upgrading by going from release to release so upgrading is not feasible (or is too hard for the…
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A Quickie
Back when I reviewed an earlier version of Flock, one of my complaints was that it was impossible to watch Youtube because the video was always stuttering. Well, the Flock programmers have fixed that bug and it’s now definitely usable to watch Youtube videos. I’ll admit that I only watch, perhaps, 1 a month, but…