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14 August 2008 ~ 0 Comments

WICD – better then Network Manager

I’ve been using WICD for the past week, and I think I like it better then Network Manager. It focuses on connecting your network interfaces to networks and does it right. IT doesn’t have the ability for VPN’s or anything else, it is merely I frontend to wpa-supplicant and iwconfig. I have had zero issues [...]

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31 July 2008 ~ 7 Comments

Open Source Digital Asset Management – Part 1

I’ve looked into this before, but haven’t done nothing about it. I am starting to look back into it a bit more heavily. My only requirements are something that works the I think it should (that’s such a clear term isn’t it) and that it’s open source. If there is a commercial backing to it, [...]

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27 July 2008 ~ 0 Comments

ATI Open Source Video Drivers

I finally left the fglrx closed sourced drivers and loaded up the ati drivers from the git repo. These code in git includes the ability for 3d acceleration for the r500 chips. I have an x1300 in my laptop, which I believe is a r515. So naturally I my curiosity won and I had to [...]

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22 July 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Should we fear Google?

This topic has been spoken on a lot, a quick google search shows that this topic has brought up as far back as 2003 when The Inquirer wrote Is Google the next Microsoft?. A buddy of mine in the industry sent me a more recent article by RedmondMag Google, the next Microsoft and ask for [...]

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14 July 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Ft Worth Linux User Group Banner

So, it’s only a proof on concept I did in about 15 minutes before going to be, but I thought I would go ahead and show it off. Please critic. Or you can Download the XCF and play with it yourself. The 92.1 Image came from Neo on Flickr and the Tux logo com from [...]

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07 July 2008 ~ 1 Comment

A Few Linux Games

I found a few linux games out there this morning that I would like to try. Some still seem to be under active development … others not so much. LinCity-NG – LinCity-NG is a City Simulation Game. It is a polished and improved version of the classic LinCity game. PokerTH – An excellent Texas Hold’em [...]

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30 June 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Matrox new M-series

Wow, now this is cool. Matrox as just released a new video card that pretty much tops all the rest. Well maybe not in performance, but in one very nice feature, QuadHead. Yep, you can now attach four monitors (dvi or analog) without the need of a second video card. The only limitation is it [...]

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28 June 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Old Content

I’m working on bringing over the old content from my other blog, this includes a few pictures and a couple videos of the Frog Mobile, The old blog broke, so I am having to go through the SQL Database to read the post and grab the media/links .. oh what fun.

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