Category: Linux
Quick note: This is a pretty long post. If you'd like to skip dinner and go straight to dessert, jump to the summary of my FOSScon 2010 wrapup .
On June 19th, a warm Saturday morning, I found myself getting up very early. There are very few things, aside from fire, that will get me up...
As someone who doesn't run a full desktop environment like Gnome or KDE, I'm learning a lot of new tricks about the behind-the-scenes stuff that keeps Linux ticking. For instance, my heybuddy links kept opening in Arora somehow - and I didn't really know where to change that. Arora kept...
In my quest for a cool Openbox desktop that fits me (you know, other than CrunchBang , which has elevated itself beyond sliced bread some time ago :) ), I ended up tearing up a lot of other perfectly nice distros and building some up from a base install. In each, I ended up tearing out GDM....
Just a quick post to highlight a great package I found in the Ubuntu Repositories: gcolor2! gcolor2 launches one of those color-pickers with the hue/saturation triangle embedded in the color rainbow ring. It has a bunch of boxes for RGB values, hex name, etc. and so on. Where this really...
Recently I had to print at work, which required installing a printer on Ubuntu, so I thought I'd share how it went. Long story short: It went awesome . First of all, I checked with OpenPrinting (now run by the Linux Foundation) to make sure if our office MFP was supported; and indeed, it...
Okay, quick note for myself later on - and anyone who may find it useful - about how to mount a Windows or Samba share in a Ubuntu Karmic/9.10 Minimal Install: You'll need to install the " smbfs " and " smbclient " packages beforehand Here's the mount syntax: mount -t cifs -o...
As of today, I'll be booting into Ubuntu at work instead of the usual Windows XP. I am psyched . For the past month or so, I've been spending an hour or so after work building up a second drive on my machine. I think I started off with Crunchbang, moved to Xubuntu with a lot of pieces stripped...
I've recently transitioned myself over to a Openbox-based desktop by installing Xubuntu and pulling out most of the XFCE stuff. It's been quite the learning experience, and I've discovered a couple things that I thought I should share:
Both Tint2 (a panel application) and Nitrogen (an...
I finally got Postfix configured correctly (if not completely) on my VPS. It took a lot of poking, but now I can send and receive mail in SquirrelMail. While this is only the beginning of the configuration, it's a nice feeling to have something "click" and start functioning. I owe it all to the...
At one of our LUG meetings, NYbill noted that I had more or less been a no-show lately on the forums, IRC and everywhere else. I even missed a LUG meeting! So, I wanted to give everybody a little sneak peek on something that I've been working on... Take a look at the teaser for Hike ADK (and...
I picked up a copy of Osmos , an independent game from Hemisphere Games , a couple weeks ago. As is usually the case with independent games, Osmos takes a bit of a diversion from your classic 3D-Shooter or RPG genre restrictions, and invents it's own game type. Osmos is a combination physics...
Recently, tioduke inquired about how my Arch adventure was going, so get ready for a follow-up post! Installing Arch was not as simple as other distros I've tried; however, I was able to get through it and found my netbook to be in a useable - if bare-bone - state. Arch does not come with a lot...
I recently had that feeling, the "distro-hopping" inkling that you get when you're too comfortable with familiarity and everything working. After a session in the #linuxoutlaws, I decided that I was going to install Arch Linux on my Dell Mini 9. So, if you're in the Linux Outlaws channel, stay...
Fancy yourself a gamer? Fancy you'd like to be? Play a game once and a while? Well, we're looking for you! Today, August 14th, we're trying to get some Linux gaming going under the Linux Outlaw banner. If you're interested, there's a simple way to join in: throw a LO in front of your name,...
Looks like the Linux Outlaws have started up their own Planet: OutlawPla.net . I'm a bit worried that some of my posts on this blog are a little off-topic, even for the Outlaws (folks coming from the Forums will know what I mean). I'll be digging through the LifeType documentation to see...