Long time, no blog

Hi, my name is Steve and I’m a WoW addict.  That’s right, I said it, I play WoW and it’s taken up A LOT of my time recently.  Hence the lack of blog posts.  However, now that my hunter on WoW is level 80, I probably won’t be playing as much and will try to [...]

Ubuntu Eee 8.04

I’ve been running Ubuntu 7.10 on my Eee PC since I got it about six months ago.  It took some tweaking to get everything working (suspend/resume was a pain!), but once set up, the little laptop has been rock solid.  I was planning to upgrade my Eee PC to Ubuntu 8.04, but I read about [...]

Make like a PDF and split

I was recently asked by a user to help with merging and splitting multiple PDF files.  I’m sure Adobe Acrobat could handle something like this, but I’m not that familiar with Acrobat and my user couldn’t afford the full version of Acrobat.  Being a command line junky, I looked for something I could run in [...]

Hardy Upgrades

So far, I’ve upgrade three Ubuntu workstations and two servers to Hardy Heron 8.04.  Of those five upgrades, I only had problems with one of the workstation upgrades.  The other workstation and server upgrades were painless.  The workstation upgrade I had a problem with was due, I think, to my Nvidia video driver.  I ended [...]

Tomboy ssh sync

I recently started using Tomboy Notes, because the post-it notes around my desk were starting to get out of hand. I liked Tomboy so much, I installed it on my work desktop, my laptop, and my home desktop computer (all running Ubuntu 7.10). I quickly became frustrated if I needed a note from [...]

Ubuntu System Management

I’ve been using Ubuntu’s new system management tool called Landscape, and I have to say I’m really impressed. I registered for the beta a few weeks ago and was accepted. The only downside is the beta limits you to managing a maximum of five Ubuntu machines, and will end in 60 days. [...]

wicd is NOT wicked awesome

I kept hearing about how much better wicd is than network-manager, especially when connecting to wireless networks. I encountered very few problems with using network-manager, except for its annoying habit of automatically connecting to open wifi networks named “linksys” without asking me first. I thought I’d give wicd a shot and see what [...]

ClusterSSH

A big “Thanks!” goes out to Linc from The Linux Link Tech Show for mentioning a little gem called ClusterSSH. It’s a SSH app that allows you log into mutiple SSH sessions. All the commands you issue are executed across all your SSH sessions. I have about a dozen Ubuntu servers at [...]

Tiny laptop con’t

I just installed mythtv-frontend on my Eee PC (Ubuntu) and it works great. Here’s a picture of MythTV running (don’t mind the messy desk).
The more I use this thing, the more I’m impressed with its capabilities.

Tiny laptop

I recently got an Eee PC (4G galaxy) at work. I’ve been spending a lot of time fiddling with this thing. The stock Xandros OS looked nice, but it wasn’t long before I started installing different OS’s on it. So far, I’ve tried Ubuntu, eeeXubuntu, BackTrack3 beta, and Windows XP. [...]