I have written before about some cool things you can do with Rhythmbox Music Player in linux, and it’s no secret that I love to find ways to make my desktop experience merge with my server/online presence. So I was particularly happy when I found a great third party plugin for Rhythmbox that can post…
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Anything technological (soft or hardware). This includes all topics open source: Apache web-serving, Drupal, Ubuntu.
How to clean up your Music library mess…aka: I just joined “Play Ogg”!
What do you do when your entire music library is infested with wma files, incorrectly tagged and renamed, sorted all wrong and just one big mess? You admit it was your own fault for not sticking to one single standard for naming and organizing, for letting Windows Media Player try to do the work for…
Twitter tricks with Ubuntu…How to serve your own personal Twitpic and Twitterfeed using Jaunty
A little while back I had a mind to set up a Twitpic account, so that I could post photos from my Centro directly to the microblogging service of kings, Identi.ca. But for some reason, either my mobile provider, or mobile platform didn’t want to play well with Twitpic, so I set out to find…
I have no name!
About a week ago I had a sort of system crash on my Intrepid server. After performing some rote maintenance, and deploying a vanity Drupal site for my daughter I was getting the “permission denied” error from Apache on all of my domains and sub-domains. To top this off, no users I host mail for…
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…
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…
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…