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I am just starting to get into Twitter. I’m still not 100% certain that I can get any use out of Twitter, but it is fun to play with. Theoretically, anyone who knows me can get updates from me if they Follow me. In reality, I don’t update Twitter very often, so no one can [...]

It occurred to me that, as cool as Compiz Fusion is on Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy), I almost never get to take advantage of that anymore. I do most of my computing from my laptop, and connect to my Ubuntu machine via FreeNX. Over a 54mb/s wireless connection using a standard mix of applications, FreeNX provides [...]

Well, it took a while, but Google has finally released their desktop search program Google Desktop for Linux. While this sounds like great news, I get the feeling that Google might be in the wrong market with this product. Don’t get me wrong: I love that Google is no longer ignoring Linux. I love [...]

I am certain that most everyone saw ZDNet’s article/editorial describing “five crucial things the Linux community doesn’t understand about the average computer user. When I read the title of the article, I immediately became defensive. After all, what in the world could the ZDNet folks know about Linux? Who are they to say why Linux [...]

I am a big fan of ljcharm, a console/command line LiveJournal client written in python. I’ve been using it for a while now, mainly because I’ve gone super-minimalistic with regards to ‘net applications. I use mutt for email, centericq for chatting, slrn for newsgroups, and ljcharm for posting to LiveJournal. With screen to tie them [...]

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 [...]

Okay, so viewing your filesystem in three dimensions isn’t as popular today as it was a few years go. It is still very, very cool, though, and it’s fun to pull out the viewers and give them a whirl:
Whether you’re searching for an unused nook in a cramped disk partition, or trying to find the [...]

So what do you do if you’re a loyal eMusic subscriber, but then one day eMusic goes and disables their Download Manager for Linux? I faced that dilemma for quite a while, until Robin Sheat wrote and released EMusicJ / An eMusic download manager for Linux. What is it, you ask? Why, it is:
eMusic/J is [...]

Here’s an interesting script, something that I’ve been searching for for awhile: Automatic MySQL Backup. What does it do?
Everyday AutoMySQLBackup will run (if setup on /etc/cron.daily) and using mysqldump and gzip will dump your specified databases to the /backups/daily directory, it will rotate daily backups weekly so you should never have more than 7 backups [...]

Linux.com continues their Vim tips series with “Folding fun”:
Let’s start with some simple folding actions. Pick a text file, preferably a longer one like your xorg.conf, or just about any text file that’s too big to fit on the screen by itself. Open it in Vim, and place the cursor at the beginning of a [...]