So, one day shy of exactly one year ago, I posted a quick article about making it one whole week without any tobacco intake. It was not an easy decision to make to quite smoking cigarettes…for good, and here I sit, over one whole year later, an accomplished man. In that post I pointed out…
Author: Josh
XMPP notices: a workaround for Drupal 5 (and how to install Openfire 3.6.3 in Ubuntu 8.10)
Since I got my self-hosted Ubuntu lamp server up and running some while back, I have made it my personal mission to find out exactly what she can do. “Why in the world would you want to run a home server?” is the question I sought to answer for myself, and sought to do so…
Open Source and Copyleft in a Copyright, Closed Source World.
What does online community mean to you? Jono Bacon, the Ubuntu community organizer, is working on a new project The Art of Community. This new project revolves around the creation of, and discussion of a book, which Jono is releasing under that same title, and licensing with a Creative Commons Liscence. The main marketing strategy…
Announcing: New feature on NousEssence – poetry!
I’m pleased to announce the addition of a new section to the site’s content: “Joshp’s Poetry”. The content of this section will NOT, by default, be promoted to the Front Page of Nous Essence, nor will it be, by default, featured on the main feed for the site. But you may see, from time to…
Incantation of Time
Deep in my heart I’m Praying and living on the long incantation of yesterday… So that tomorrow, I might dance the right way. For the peace and trust of today. The truth of my dreams whispers to the center of my brain, while God is watching us all have our turns. * She’s somewhere I’m…
Awesome Music server = Your existing Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop + Ampache + Rhythmbox, Oh My!
One of the problems we were running into in our home was the distribution of media files, specifically music. My desktop has a nice 300+ Gigs of hdd space on it, so it’s fairly easy for me to host all of the music on separate partitions (pretty useful when the smaller systems in the house…
Lenses
I know something You know something. The things which we think we know are elusive and are deep. The tendency is to instruct to resist to lead. There is no ambiguity When revealing this fact. There is only the knowing in silence.
Hello Planet Ubuntu Users!
Well, hello there wonderful world of Ubuntu Weblogs! I’m happy to announce that I have taken another step forward in my journey as a growing part of the Ubuntu community! This is my first post to the planet, and thank you gouki for opening the door for me, so allow me the pleasure to introduce…
Quake 3 mods gone rogue! – “Smoking Guns” Stand Alone v1.0! (torrent here)
One of my favorite Open source games to play on my Ubuntu box is World of Padman, it’s a FPS (first person shooter) that began it’s life as a little Quake3 mod, and about a year prior to this post took to the wing as it’s own stand alone game. It’s easy to install, easy…
Microblog-purple (Identi.ca/Twitter-Pidgin Integration)
So I had a difficult time trying to understand “Why Twitter”, even after I began using it. I like integration. Why have yet another method to stay connected, when we have blogging, social network sites, instant message networks up the wazoo, irc, etc and etc…? So, I integrated twitter into my Drupal site using the…