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…
Tag: foss
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…
What I like and why I like it – sqlitebrowser
Here is the start of a new series on NousEssence: What I like and Why I Like it. It basically works like this: Anything I happen upon that sparks a little light in my eye, or causes a wee spring in me step gets put in here. In time, this will be an additional component…
Migration Season
Soooooo I migrated servers over the last few days. I got me a fairly inexpensive box, threw Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex on it, and migrated all of my assets over to it. There should not have been any down time, the actual switch over should have taken about 2 seconds even though the process ended…
New Site Feature!! Comment Notify!
Just a quick note to commemorate the addition of a nifty new feature from the module Comment Notify. Now you can receive email notifications when someone adds a comment to a post that you have commented on…and the best parts: 1. You don’t need an account to sign up for these notifications, 2. you can…
“OMG! Help!” or “How to Regain Access to Your Ubuntu Computer Once You Have Lost Your User Name and Password!”
So, have you ever lost a password? Ever forgot your user name after coming up with something pretty nifty that is so unique you could never possibly forget it? Ever bought a used computer off Craigslist with Ubuntu installed and forgot to ask the user name and password? Yeah, well rather than going through the…
Anti-SPAM! or How I secured NousEssence
SPAM! Why should I have to worry about spam, right? This is a pretty low traffic site (sigh) and who’s going to spam on me? I had a post a bit ago about passing a spam right of passage and enabling a bit of security to get around it. Well, the spam dude was not…
PSPP – Open Source Statistics (Moving Towards an Open Educational Experience)
Anybody out there who has ever had to analyze any statistical data in any serious way or take a class on stats has been introduced to the mighty SPSS , or Statistical Package for the Social Sciences in long form. This is software which was designed for, is standardized by, and expected for your use…
Ubuntu 8.04 – Hardy Heron (with Netbook remix) on the EeePC 701 4G Surf (with touch screen)
So, as promised, here are the steps I took to get Ubuntu 8.04 – hardy Heron installed on my Asus EeePc 701 4G Surf. I will include BOTH the steps I took and, when applicable, popular alternate steps available. Also, I will include the steps required to get the “Kiddshop touchscreen (from Kiddshopp on ebay)…
Touchscreen, Ubuntu, The EeePC, and me…
Tonight I write from a stance of (near) total victory. This post is to mark the fact that I have accomplished installing and ‘properly’ configuring Ubuntu 8.04, code named Hardy Heron, on my EeePC with a fully functional, self installed touchscreen. I am using the Ubuntu “Netbook Remix”, and it ROCKS the Touchscreen!! Next, to…