I used this for things that aren’t strictly about GNU/Linux. I should rename the category, but I haven’t. But broadly, these are things I do or know that correspond to linux. For me.
I like gnome-do. I know people who don't, but that's cool. However, gnome-do's files and folders plugin will only index 3000 files. It complains if it is indexing more than that, but doesn't offer any insights about why it is complaining. More exasperatingly, the error message says something like ...
J handed off his Eee to me today. He's studying for finals and also moving and his laptop choked. Machines always fail when you need them most: so back your shit up, okay? He said it was only booting to a command prompt, which isn't quite accurate. It boots into ...
We're using a wholly unwholesome new database system to manage our CSA membership. (I didn't pick it.) And one thing it doesn't do is generate invoices? Confused? I sure am. Without getting too deep into the puzzle of how you build software to manage CSA shares that can't generate an ...
Apologies if I've played this tune before -- I was surprised that I hadn't. More than once I've tried to point folks to my paper on software freedom. It is part of a book that is well worth a read (that'd be Organic Internet), but I wrote that ...
Short story: gPodder. Long story: I have a Cowon iAudio -- a file system based audio player. It plays MP3, but it also supports formats that aren't patent encumbered. Ogg, specifically. I listen to some music on it, but mostly I'm interested in it for podcasts, ...
Briefly, because I'll never write this up if I don't spit it out. Related: I'm probably going to update this. I'll try to find a WordPress plugin that lets me publish revisions first. Update: I'm fixing typos anyhow. You'll live. San Francisco recently adopted instant runoff voting ...
It is batizado season, and this year, we're also holding competitive games. I'm hard enough on myself, so I'm not competing. (I will graduate though, if you want to come Oct 2.) Instead I'm in charge ...
I'm sick of F-Spot because it just doesn't fit right. It is clunky and not getting any better. There's no straight forward way to show the tags and date of a photo when I'm looking over photos. I can't figure out a way to rename photos. I'm tired of it, ...
Next task: make a bootable USB thumb/stick/drive/thing to rescue a busted machine (In this case, little old Brahms). dkg, as ever, knows what's what and gave me great advice: Bootable USB sticks are just like bootable hard drives for modern computers. Partition them with parted, use mkfs to create a filesystem on them, use grub-install to give them a bootloader, put a kernel and an initial ramfs on them, configure the bootloader to load them, and away you go. He even offered me his filesystem rescue debirf image with the latest 686 kernel from debian unstable.
My new friend Jen lured me to a panel last night. Part of LMCC's Access Restricted series. Worth checking out, though I wanted a lot more from Intellectual Property in the Age of Reproduction. We barely touched on the very interesting questions of copyright transgression, copying and fair use. Which is really too bad. Two quick observations before I get back to work.
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