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So, I had some Real Media (rm) videos that I wanted to view in Linux. But, like so many other sane people out there, I didn’t want anything to do with the official Real Player for Linux. I’ve never been a fan of Real and I’ve always thought their software was a bloated mess. Plus, [...]

Apparently one of the people Aaron works with called him out on his programming and computer use history and he posted his response on his blog. In that blog, he took the liberty of calling out a few of his friends, myself included. I put off responding because my computer crapped out on me again. [...]

Many ISPs these days employ traffic shaping to make their networks run smoother. In the most basic sense, they give priority to more critical traffic, like VoIP for instance, and slow down less important traffic, like HTTP and Torrents. Lately, many ISPs have been doing their best to slap down any peer-to-peer (p2p) traffic, especially [...]

I’ve seen all kinds of really cool projects that use the fancy new Arduino microcontroller. I’m not the biggest fan of C or C++ (to be honest, I hate them both), but the Wiring model and the Processing environment seems interesting. So much so that I decided over this long weekend that I wanted to [...]

I’ve been growing increasingly concerned with the quality of hard drives being made today. It used to be that a hard drive would last you many years before you’d see a failure out of it. In fact, I still have hard drives that date back to the early 90’s that continue to work to this [...]

As you may or may not know, Ubuntu doesn’t include a build environment by default. What this means is that in order to compile program from source, you’ll need to get the build environment on your own. This is simple enough though, as outlined below:
sudo apt-get install build-essential checkinstall
This will install 2 things, the build [...]

This may not only apply to Ubuntu, but it’s the only Linux distro I tried it in (since it’s what I run). I think any distro using ALSA will work the same.
The problem is that I have a SoundBlaster Live card as well as an onboard VIA sound chip. Since Linux ignores the system BIOS, [...]

If you Google “ubuntu flash sound” you’ll find a LOT of information about flash sound problems and how to fix them. The consensus seems to be installing alsa-oss and configuring Firefox to use it. However, try as I may, I couldn’t get it to work. Then I read somewhere that you needed to set other [...]

I’ve been using VirtualBox for a while now after finding it in Automatix in Ubuntu. Anyway, until now, I’ve been perfectly happy not using USB devices with it. For the most part, I still am, but I was curious how hard it was to set up, so I looked it up. Here’s what I found [...]

I’ve been running Ubuntu Linux for a few years now and it’s by far my favorite distro out there right now. It’s simple to use, quick to install and everything works out of the box. I used to run Gentoo but I got tired of compiling everything all the time to install things and spending [...]