After searching a bit for a worthwhile flash MP3 player suitable for a large collection, I finally came across something that works well. The problem with most of the freely available players is that most require a playlist to be created in XML or .pls format beforehand. That’s not what I wanted. [...]

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I switched back to my ISP’s nameservers after getting fed up with OpenDNS. I love the idea of OpenDNS and thought I would like the service a lot. Turns out that it ended up pissing me off far more than any generic service, but that rant is for another post. One thing [...]

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Two weeks ago, a good friend and I were chatting about what features would make life easier in our day to day jobs of web design and system administration.  Among what we discussed was the ability to edit remote files in VIM without having to open a remote shell to the system in question.  We [...]

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I was heading over to IMDB to check out the listing for This Film Is Not Yet Rated when I spied an advertisement for anti-wrinkle cream.  The first frame was a very old, very, very wrinkled lady.  I had an idea of what was coming next, but didn’t want to believe it.

Bravely, I rolled over [...]

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Slashdot posted “A Walk Through the Hard Drive Recovery Process” today.  It was essentially an advertisement for the data recovery service used in the article with little to no real information.  This is typically known as a slashvertisement to those familiar with Slashdot.
Hidden in the comments, however, was a gem — a link to Defcon [...]

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I had a lot of fun with Linux Multi Media System.  As far as I have been able to find, it’s the closest thing to Fruity Loops that I’ve been able to find for linux.  It doesn’t take a whole lot of learning and is just an apt-get away on Ubuntu.
Here’s a little tune I [...]

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I thought tabs were great.  In reality, they’re useful for some things — web browsing and file managing come to mind.  But when it comes to working in a terminal, it’s really tedious to have to flip back and forth between tabs in your terminal emulator.  Things get lost, you forget which machine is which, [...]

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Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) came out at the tail end of last month and since upgrading, any operation with apt-get or Synaptics has been excruciatingly slow.  For a time, probably the first 24 hours after having upgraded, apt-get update commands were even timing out!  At that point, I manually changed my mirrors in /etc/apt/sources.list to [...]

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I use the new Apple Slim USB Keyboard with my linux box because I love the way it feels.  The new version of Ubuntu isn’t as fond of it as I am.
Number Pad
If you press the ‘clear’ button on the Apple keyboard, it functions as the NumLock button would on a regular PC keyboard.  It [...]

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Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 came out last week, and I thought I’d take a moment to do a new post about connecting to a workplace VPN that uses Windows Server’s built in PPTP ability.  Not a lot has changed, so you can also refer to the older article here.
The process is simple, but oftentimes discovering [...]

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