Speedlinktastikuliciouserati
Saturday, February 10, 2007
If you are looking for links that I mentioned on the podcast then you have come to the right place. If you are looking for the podcast you can download it here, episode 27. If, however you are looking for the your keys they are probably at the last place you left them. Yes, well, as promised I have the links for you that I mentioned on the show. They are below and in the order that I mentioned them. Oh, BTW, there is a slight Freudian slip in the podcast. Let me know if you found it. I left it in there to have a little fun. Cheers!!!
News
Linspire and Canonical Announces A Key Partnership
Run Windows Programs Seamlessly In Ubuntu With QEmu
David Lee Roth to Rejoin Van Halen. Honey!! Where is my Spandex?
Russian Region Perm To Ditch Proprietary Software For Linux
Linux Alternative Package
VLC, here is the link http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
Main Segment
For a site that rates packages for Gnome and also a place you can download the packages in various formats try gnomefiles.org
The KDE site that does essentially the same thing is KDE-apps.org
Check out this site for various Gnome-centric eye candy, gnome-look.org
And lastly, the Ubuntu Geek blog is a cornucopia of tips, tutorials, and advice from a very knowledgable ubuntu user. It is at Ubuntugeek.com.
Have fun with the links and tell them I sent you!!
CLCoTW
time cat
This is a perfect command to time how ling it take a browser to load a web page, or how long it might take to download a file. Better yet, you can time yourself taking a bathroom break then getting a sandwich and eventually back to your computer. Can you think of anything better to do with your time?
LINKS FROM MY EMAILS AND COMMENTS
Davids linux blog penguinway.com
VMWare
http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/directory/284
http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/directory/374
VMWare howto
Mark G's blog Humble Ubuntu
MUSIC
Download "Shake It" (mp3)
from "The Adventures Of Johnny Loco"
by Latin Soul Syndicate
Lovecat Music
Buy at iTunes Music Store
Buy at eMusic
Buy at RealNetworks / Rhapsody
More On This Album
Download "A Change Is Gonna Come" (mp3)
from "Can You Feel It?"
by Campbell Brothers
Ropeadope Records
- Buy at RealNetworks / Rhapsody
Buy at Napster
More On This Album
Download "Robert Jax vs Techno Squirrels" (mp3)
from "Om Mani"
by Techno Squirrels
Rave Police Records
- Buy at iTunes Music Store
- Buy at eMusic
- Buy at RealNetworks / Rhapsody
More On This Album
Download "Patricia" (mp3)
from "World Latin Championships"
by Tony Evans & His Orchestra
Tema International
- Buy at iTunes Music Store
- Buy at eMusic
- Buy at RealNetworks / Rhapsody
More On This Album
Add and Remove, uh, Sometimes
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Welcome back, You can download the podcast here, Episode 26. Before I get started, i just want to say due to the Holiday Weekend (aka, the SuperBowl) I will not be putting out a podcast for the week of February 4th 2007. I hope you understand and may the best team win!
This week I talk a little about "The GIMP". I consider it a viable alternative to Photoshop for my needs. I must stress that it is for "my needs". In other words, for the casual (and I mean rare) user. Yes, I understand that GIMP does not support CMYK colors (or Pantone, I think) but, it can probably handle most anything just short a retouching photos for Architectural Digest and it might be able to do that as well only the final post printing colors will probably not look right so I've read. Here is an interesting article I came upon talking just about this very topic and if you are curious about the GIMP you can reach it here.
Whoops! Sorry I forgot this link to Gnome Hacks, click here.
The Command line of the command of the week was: netstat -tup
This specific command lists all the internet connections both incoming and outgoing. So if you are wondering about what programs are using internet access this would be a good command to use to find exactly that!
In the main segment, I talk about another package manager that I generically call the add/remove packet manager. I really like the user interface of the packet manager. First of all there are only packages in there! Unlike Synaptic which lists packages, dependencies, libraries and whatever else that packages need. As an end user, I am only interested in a couple of things. What applications are available to me and what applications are the hottest/latest/best. The add/remove package manager addresses both very easily as it does rate (at least) the most popular application from 1 star (the least) to 4 stars (you guessed it, the most). All of the packages are categorized in the left frame and the packages are contained in the upper right frame with the lower right frame reserved for a description. One esoteric addition albeit (IMO) an important one is the addition of the packages' Logo icon to the left of the package name. I know, I am a bit shallow, but really folks, in all honesty, it adds the sizzle to the steak! The only downfall is that it is heavily dependent on Synpatic Package Manager to handle removal of closely related packages and utilities of the user interface, but, it handles adding packages with the same ease and grace that Synpatic does. Overall, I give it a 7 out 10, but what would be nice is if Synaptic Package manager used elements of the add/remove manager and we would have an even better package management system.
Music from the Podshow, Podsafe Music Network (PMN)
| One Tribe - Saskia Nation theme | HatHead |  |
| Download it-Dance edit | Clea | |
Music From IODA PROMONET
Download "Take The "A" Train" (mp3)
from "Artistry In Swing"
by Tony Evans & His Orchestra
Tema International
- Buy at iTunes Music Store
- Buy at eMusic
- Buy at RealNetworks / Rhapsody
More On This Album
Feisty Fawn Herd 2
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Yes, you herd it here first (haha)! Well, maybe 53rd, Download the podcast episode 25 and find out what I had to say about it. Herd 2 is released and ready for testing by the general public. Get your hands on it and see what it is all about. There are a lot of interesting things on FFH2 that are intrigueing like a new Gnome and GTK+ and updated kernal and lots of new Debian packages. I might try it myself! below are the links to the ISO's.
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/feisty/herd-2/ (Ubuntu)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/feisty/herd-2/ (Kubuntu)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/releases/feisty/herd-2/ (Edubuntu)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/feisty/herd-2/ (Xubuntu)Command Line Command of the week - free
This command gives you anything you want for free!! Wow, Linux is soo....what's that you say? Oh, I see....This just gives you the amount of free memory in your physical memory and swap drive? Oh, buffers too? The -b switch displays the amount of memory in bytes; the -k switch (set by default) displays it in kilobytes; the -m switch displays it in megabytes; the -g switch displays it in gigabytes. How nice:[And, finally thanks to Art for providing a possible solution for getting FreeNAS and Ubuntu to work together. Art was unable to listen to mp3's or watch DVD's from content stored on a FreeNAS server. So he wrote a post on a Sourceforge forum and there might be an answer to his post by now. I haven't checked yet but it is worth a try if you are experiencing problems with the same setup. Here is the link.
http://sourceforge.net/forum
Well, that does it for me! Thanks for visiting, have a good one!
Music was provided courtesy of the Ioda Promonet and the Podshow Music Network
Download "Natty Dread Time" (mp3)
from "Hidden Treasures 2"
by Various Artists
Easy Star Records
- Buy at iTunes Music Store
- Buy at eMusic
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| Ticking Timebomb | Demerit 7 | Jan. 19 2007 | |
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