Linux
New Format for MP3s
Sunday, April 6th, 2008So I have been doing a bunch of work on converting all of my old CDs to MP3s. Then I needed to fix the MP3 Tags for all of them. I used EasyTAG to edit MP3 tags and naming in mass. This works great for my needs.
Now here comes the issue. I know I can [...]
Ubuntu and My Dad
Saturday, November 24th, 2007Well every year around Christmas or Thanksgiving while I am at my dad’s house. He usually wants me to work on his home computer. Tune it up fix windows, defrag the drive, update his Anti-Virus subscription, and just do a clean up and backup of the photos of the family they have put on the [...]
TFTP Firewall Backups
Sunday, November 18th, 2007So a week ago we started looking for a way to access all of our Cisco Firewalls (PIX and FWSMs) to run nightly configuration backups. I am not about to pay for it doesn’t seem like something that someone with half a brain shouldn’t be able to build a quick script. So I [...]
Edgy Eft Lighttpd phpmyadmin MySQL install
Sunday, March 4th, 2007Well it took me a couple of days to figure out what I was doing wrong. Well Vince W. over at URBAN PUDDLE posted this tutorial about installing Ruby on Rails on Ubuntu Edgy (6.10) with Lighty (lighttpd), and MySQL. In the tutorial there was a linking to his lighttpd.conf file that had [...]
My Battle with HP and Linux
Saturday, December 16th, 2006So the other day I gave up my fight with installing Linux on my new laptop. My HP Pavilion dv6000 series notebook is pretty hopeless on getting up and running fully with Linux. I tried Ubuntu 6.06 amd64/i386 6.10 amd64 and with all of them I have noticed a couple of issues first of all [...]
New Firefox Ads Posted Online
Wednesday, December 6th, 2006The folks over at Firefox have came up with an Ad Contest where the users of Firefox get to make their own commercial. You can vote for the ads that you like and hopefully they will end up in the Firefox Ad on TV humm I wonder if this will make me start watching commercials [...]
Ubuntu on my HP Pavilion dv6125se
Friday, December 1st, 2006So my old Dell laptop that I was holding together with duct tape and chewing gum finally died on me last week and I had to buy a laptop. I started shopping around a couple of days ago for a new laptop the number one thing was I wanted it to be brand new and [...]