Well my tutorial the other day on installing Folding @ Home on Ubuntu looks like it was a hit. I got some great reactions from you and I’m glad to see there are so many people interested in helping out doing this kind of research.
Since I wrote up that tutorial I got to [...]
I’m happy to announce the recent creation of the US Teams Planet! Our project of building localized support teams across the US has absolutely taken off and with it the framework of communication is growing.
The US Teams Planet will be a portal, similar to the Ubuntu Planet, into the activities, goals and events of [...]
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Before I dive into my tutorial and tell you how to setup your machine for running the Folding @ Home process I’ll take just a minute and introduce those of you unaware to what the project is.
The project is a distributed computing effort put [...]
I want to remind everyone that today is the second annual Open Discussion Day. The day where we celebrate and advocate open protocols and computing standards. One year ago today I set the goal to stop using proprietary “closed” IM protocols. Today I only use Jabber and I don’t miss the others. [...]
Since my exodus yesterday from Mutt I have installed and am playing with Thunderbird 2 for email. So far I don’t hate it like I did 1.5, but we’re still in the test stages. We’ll see how it all turns out. In any event I wanted to share with you how I [...]
Many of you know I’ve been trying to learn the mutt mail client and I have really put some time into it. For quite a long time I’ve subscribed to the ‘all mail clients suck’ school of thought and mutt brought me close to finding a way out… but during my transition has turned me [...]
This week I’m teaching out in Portland, OR in a Linux Fundamentals class. A small part of one of this weeks chapter is on screen. You might remember I’ve talked about screen in the past here. I still use screen on a day to day basis and really enjoy it. Today I’ve [...]
Many of you know that I use irssi for my irc client. It’s the best. (If you haven’t tried it you really should. Check out my previous tutorials here and here.)
You may also remember all that talk going around some time ago about an irssi notify script tied into libnotify. I use that as well [...]
We had some really great news this morning on the US Teams front. Both a new approved member (well deserved!) and a newly approved US Team. I want to welcome both to the club and hope to see everyone keep up the fantastic work.
DC Team – Congratulations. From the looks of things you’re doing a [...]
Tonite it’s getting late but I wanted to post something that is useful for quickly getting to the shell from any GUI location. The package nautilus-open-terminal does just what you might guess it does. It allows you to launch a gnome-terminal from a right-click within nautilus.
You might remember I blogged about something similar [...]
