MythTV is certainly one of the outstanding open source projects available. From MythTV.org: MythTV is a Free Open Source software digital video recorder (DVR) project distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL. It has been under heavy development since … Continue reading
Category Archives: Linux
Again many thanks go to the CentOS team! Media for version 6.2 are now available. I have already downloaded the ISO DVD images via BitTorrent. Thank you RedHat for continuing to develop, acquire, and release your software under the GPL. … Continue reading
In prepping some RHEL 5.5 laptops, I noticed something odd. Very odd. I had made some changes to a base system and did an rsync -av -n from the base system to a pristine source installation to see what had … Continue reading
Upon the most undignified death of our Macbook Pro 2.2, we have since acquired a new Macbook, running Lion. Not surprisingly, my Linux based AFP server needed an update. Code: Netatalk 2.2.1, from http://netatalk.sourceforge.net/. Berkeley DB 4.8.30, from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/berkeleydb/downloads/index-082944.html After … Continue reading
Dennis Ritchie died on October 12, 2011. For those of you unfamiliar with Dennis Ritchie, he wrote Unix in assembly language, invented the C programming language, and re-wrote Unix in C. Click on the above image, and you will see … Continue reading
A new ZDNET blog post hit the Internet the other day. I found it via Linux Today. First, from the blog the author is described as follows: David Gewirtz, Distinguished Lecturer at CBS Interactive, is an author, U.S. policy advisor, … Continue reading
RedHat released their 6.0 version of Enterprise Linux back in November. At this moment, the CentOS re-compile is being pushed to mirrors on the Internet. The release was announced moments ago. The wait has been rough. Many people on the … Continue reading
Let’s face it. Sometimes you have a need for network wide access via SSH. Port redirection does not cut it, and PermitTunnel may be disabled. Here is an old school program that works very well: slirp. Slirp was born in … Continue reading
Sometimes I like to take a television news show and listen to just the audio while exercising or mowing the yard. I have a card in my PC that can capture non-encrypted cable or over the air (OTA) transmissions. Here … Continue reading
Slashdot.org recently posted an article about a computer costing $25. If you go to rasperrypi.org and check out the pictures, this system is impressive given its size. What is noteworthy is the cost, size, and power of this device. While … Continue reading