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I have another issue in Ubuntu that has been driving me batty: updated DNS servers. When I set up a vpn connection using Network Manager, I can connect to the vpn tunnel, but the DNS settings are not updated. This means that pretty much nothing can be done. I don’t go around remembering IP addresses [...]

I tend to be a little cynical about list articles. Most are just trolling for links to try to drive ad clicks. And I am pretty certain that this article at Linux on Desktop is doing just that. However, the list given is actually pretty cool. There’s a lot of games in the list that [...]

I finally found some time to play with a few different Linux distros. I had mentioned here that I tried Sabayon Linux, which looks absolutely beautiful, and was kinda fun. But Gentoo is so far out of my comfort zone that I decided Sabayon wasn’t worth the time that it would take to re-learn things.
I’m [...]

It took friggin’ forever, but Amarok is finally able to transfer album artwork to my beloved iPod Nano! Supposedly, album art support has been in Amarok for a while, but it didn’t work because Amarok couldn’t correctly set the iPod model string.
Well, fortunately, Amarok 1.4.6 has been released. And even more fortunately, it is already [...]

I don’t know how I didn’t run across the tivodecode project on SourceForge before now. Somehow it completely slipped by me. But I finally tracked it down this week, and have been playing with it since. And it all boils down to this: tivodecode is good stuff.
tivodecode’s install was surprisingly simple. I nabbed the latest [...]

I’ve mentioned here before that my digital music collection is massive. We’re at 15,000 songs with more being added every month. I’ve built this collection from a number of sources, including ripping from CDs, purchasing from iTunes, and downloading from eMusic. This has left me with a gigantic music library, and a music library [...]

Linux.com has another great article up, this time re-reviewing text email clients. You may ask, “Why use a text email client nowadays, when there are so many GUI-based clients available in all distributions?” And I have an easy answer for you: Try running KMail/Kontact/Thunderbird/Evolution over a console-based SSH connection. Doesn’t work ‘cuz there’s no X [...]

Linux.com continues their fun series of application comparison. This time up: Top Linux photo managers side-by-side:
Of the photo-management landscape looks bleak so far, don’t give up yet — there are alternatives. I am a big fan of GQview, a GTK-based image viewer that offers fewer features than either DigiKam or F-Spot, but in practice works [...]

The newest entry in Linux.com’s awesome CLI Magic series reminded me of something I wanted to write about here: Conky! In case you don’t know what it is:
Conky is a lightweight system monitor that provides essential information in an easy-to-understand, highly customizable interface. The software is a fork of TORSMO, which is no longer maintained. [...]

I loves me the graphics viewers. I dunno why, but I always have to give a new graphics viewer a spin, just to see if it works or not. Maybe it was all those years running DOS and AmigaOS with a 1200bps modem connection to a local BBS, trying to find a good, free photo [...]