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    Easy Printer Networking with KDE

    For the longest time, I’ve always had to go through many steps to setup network printing (both in my Windows and my early Linux days). Sharing standard usb printers across a network mixed with Linux and Mac machines can be a pain in the samba. Fortunately, KDE has an easy two-step solution that should work for any machines that can pickup CUPS shared network printers. This should only be used…

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    We’re one step closer to KDE4

    “KDE 4.0-alpha2 features considerable enhancements of Plasma, the KDE 4 desktop shell. July 4, 2007 (The INTERNET). The KDE Community is happy to announce the immediate availability of the second alpha release of the K Desktop Environment. This release comes straight out of Glasgow, the largest city in Scotland where aKademy is currently taking place. Hundreds of KDE hackers are working like crazy to hunt down bugs, complete features for…

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  • Video Podcasts

    As some of you already know, I don’t watch television, but I do watch an occasional (albeit brief) video podcast. We also have an HTPC, so content is streamed to our living room (i.e. not at my desk on the computer) Here are a few of the ones that my wife and I watch regularly: Attack of the Show (sometimes) Cheat Game Break X-Play Ninja Warrior Indigital MobuzzTV (daily) How-to…

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    No iPhone for Me

    Before anyone asks, no I did not get an iPhone, nor do I plan to. The telephone, since its inception, is the most intrusive device in existence. If I want to talk to you, I’ll contact you myself. Even email is not as intrusive. I can answer my email whenever I want. With a phone, people expect to be able to contact you wherever you are, whenever they want. I…

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    Blog client test

    This is a little test of the new upload feature of QTM (a blogging client for QT). I have used QTM to post my last three blog entries.

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  • Everywhere I go, I see the same

    …model. As a web developer, I’ve noticed that, although many web sites appear to have happy customers brilliantly displayed on their sites using their products, most of those “customers” are actually stock photo images from sites that sell such photos. Most of these photos are attractive, happy women holding laptops or other electronic devices. I only wonder, when a web developer may only pay $5 for a hires photo of…

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    Back to Freevo

    OK, so I spoke too soon. MythTV just didn’t work well for us. It ran too slowly on our admittedly old HTPC system (old hardware in a new case). Also, the slowness just made it unbearable to configure. With Freevo, there is not really a graphical setup. You have to edit a python configuration file, but it’s just one file. With MythTV, there was an endless number of menus to…

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    MythTV

    I’ve made the switch to MythTV. It’s not that I no longer like Freevo, but MythTV is in the Ubuntu official repository. It was becoming too laborious to find packages for Freevo and/or compile them from source. I was just getting too many little python errors here and there. After upgrading to Feisty, Freevo seemed to break beyond repair. So far, everything with MythTV seems to be going well, but…

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    Padman

    I very rarely promote video games, but I just found a great free one. It’s called World of Padman. It was originally a Quake 3 add-on map that eventually became its own stand-alone game. And boy is it ever fun. The premise is that you are apparently small blue smurf-like creatures in a the real (normal-sized world). As such, the beatifully rendered worlds are extra large. Imagine hopping onto a…

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