Category: F/LOSS
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Linux Photography: Basic Darktable Tutorial
I know why my first few minutes with Darktable seemed so frustrating–they were all me scrubbing this modal interface looking for things I thought all should be in a menubar. But there are no menubars. While DT has quite a bit of keyboard shortcuts (not discussed today) Those were no help because you have to…
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Building faster with Netbeans and SSDs
The build directories that Netbeans uses are pounded a lot, and chances are you have enough ram to leverage tmpfs. Let do it! Start with our /etc/rc.local file: echo deadline > /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/queue/iosched/fifo_batch D=/home/jreynolds/.cache/netbeans rm -rf $D/* mount $D chown -R jreynolds:jreynolds $D D=/home/jreynolds/NetBeansProjects/MyProject/build rm -rf $D/* mount $D # dont furgit…
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Too Many Linux Distros? And Does Progress Justify Injustice?
Are there too many Linux distros? Michael Dominick, in Episode 23 of Coder Radio clearly says that there are too many distros. This is not a fresh dilema, and I’ve written about it in the past. It is a basic point: in any community where proficiency is valued and lumber is free, you will never…
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LinuxFest Northwest 2012 was great fun (plus Apache talk slides)
I really had a great weekend. I liked taking the kids to the Fest on Saturday, and I’m glad that I got them to do some robots. They of course wanted to spend a lot of time in the game room. And I was impressed that they were eager for lunch (salmon)! I got caught…
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Ubuntu 12.04 — apt-get my guile
So first impression on rebooting into an upgrade of Ubuntu 12.04 — busted install. Unity would not start up, I killed lightdm and restarted it, and I immediately notice that firefox has missing png for some of the tab buttons. Presently I’m repeating: $ apt-get autoclean $ dpkg –clear-avail $ apt-get update $ apt-get…
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Will UEFI boot Linux?
I saw this article mentioning signed boot loaders float down the BLUG.org news stream. The highlight pullquote: A system that ships with only OEM and Microsoft keys will not boot a generic copy of Linux. I’m sure someone is already busy working on proper support for this, it will be interesting to learn what it…
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Linuxfest Northwest 2011 Prize
Here’s the Bruce Schneier doll that Modwest donated to the Linuxfest Northwest world famous raffle. What a great prize! Bruce is decked out Matrix style to defeat all your security-thru-obscurity talk and send you packing back to your world of security theater. I wonder what Modwest will donate next year…I know a Leo LaPorte doll…
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Copy Protection for Our Identities
Another idea sprouted: I love the concept that Doc Searls discusses about the Intention Oriented Economy. This is the reverse of the identity oriented economy where we supplicate our commercial oligarchy with our percious identifiable information for free stuff so they can better advertise to us. Rather–it makes much more sense to develop an anonymous…
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Tiny Computers: 4 for $100
This would be an awesome exhibit for LinuxFest Northwest 2012: small usb computer kit.
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