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Moving from Dreamhost to AWS. 6 Jul 2012 | 08:11 am
As it is with everything in the world, good things can’t last forever. Dreamhost was great and has seen me through millions and millions of page views with just a few pennies thrown their way in retur...
Started something new this week. 16 May 2011 | 05:45 pm
I’ve started a small new place for my thoughts to reside, which aren’t necessarily related to Linux. Visit my new blog about coding and such called importflying. It’s somewhere I’ll write about codin...
The GPLv3 in Plain English – The Parts Microsoft Worries About 31 Mar 2010 | 06:03 am
Awhile back I read the small print about Microsoft’s Moonlight software distribution. It specifically mentions the stuff they don’t like about the GPLv3. Interesting. Let’s see what they are worried a...
VMWare Workstation 7 and Ubuntu 9.10 Easy Install – Too easy? 22 Nov 2009 | 08:28 am
I’ve got a company laptop for the weekend and wanted to take Ubuntu 9.10 for a spin. Using wubi (and then later uninstalling it) would probably have worked, but I haven’t used the latest version of VM...
The Most Interesting README File Ever? 27 Jul 2008 | 11:22 pm
Another linux zealot at my old job gave me the heads up on this, it’s directly from gnome-cups-manager, and I thought you would all enjoy it. If you’re not aware, the readme file is for a Gnome graphi...
Linux Carputer Guide 101 27 Jun 2008 | 02:52 pm
Building a carputer the most difficult, expensive and rewarding do-it-yourself (DIY) projects I have ever completed. If you own a car manufactured in the last 20 years, the chances are it has a speci...
What happens when you ask a software pirate for Ubuntu? 24 May 2008 | 06:02 pm
We’ve all seen the email scams, where software pirates offer amazing deals on software through email. In fact I got one such message today: From: michaell260@hotmail.com To: wayne@fsckin.com Date: ...
gimpsvn.sh — Install or update to GIMP 2.5 from SVN on Ubuntu 8.04 8 May 2008 | 12:41 am
I’ve been wanting to try out GIMP 2.5 for quite some time now, and plenty of other folks are certainly looking forward to the new interface, among other things. In my somewhat limited observations of ...
Reporting from the fsckin trenches – Novell v. SCO trial 2 May 2008 | 10:49 am
Ladies and germs, it’s been too long since I’ve got anything up here, so I figured it would be good to post a short update on what I’ve been up to this week. The Novell v. SCO trial is ending tomorrow...
Shipit now accepting orders for Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 LTS! 24 Apr 2008 | 07:41 pm
This might be old news to some folks, but for those of you who want to get a “real” pressed CD, Shipit has been offering to ship CDs of the still unreleased Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 when it is availabl...
