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Freevo Home Theatre Platform

Thursday, July 13, 2006

Today my boss introduced me to Freevo – an open source home theatre system for linux, written in Python. Record your TV shows and save them for later, accessible via the web interface if you’re at work and you forgot that The Return of Howard the Duck is on. A localised and accurate TV guide [...]

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Dapper Drake Released

Thursday, June 1, 2006

Ubuntu has launched version 6.06 today. Evaluating the test releases was not really an option for me, since it takes about three weeks for me to download an ISO, so I am looking forward to getting Dapper this weekend. I haven’t been so excited about an OS since I got Windows 95 for my 486. [...]

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RazerTool for Linux

Tuesday, May 23, 2006

For anyone who uses Razer Copperhead and has at some point been frustrated by Razer’s lack of support for Linux users: here is a new (unofficial) tool for controlling the mouse in Linux – upgrading the firmware, switching profiles, etc.. It has a command line version and a gtk version, and it is very handy.

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Guess what software Osama Bin Laden uses on his laptop?

Friday, April 28, 2006

Macros linked to this on IRC – Shelley The Republican has outraged hundreds of gullible people with an article on how Linux is a threat to American freedom, a backlash by Europeans jealous of America’s lead in technology. This is clearly an elaborate parody site in my opinion, and very entertaining at that (have a [...]

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Breezy Critical Security Threat

Monday, March 13, 2006

With Breezy running on three of my systems here, I was a bit surprised to find this post on the Ubuntu security forum; root password in plain text in a file that is readable by all users, on a standard installation. I am amazed that nobody has spotted this before – surely there has been [...]

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