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Getting Video To Play After Installing Compiz Fusion

Finally! Finally found out the problem and solution. First a little background…

I’ve decided to try switching over to Linux by using the distribution Linux Mint 4.0 Daryna. Now, I kind of lean towards KDE maybe because of my Windows background and the Linux Mint 4.0 KDE version is still officially beta so there are some […]

A Bird? A Plane? A Flying Man?

A pretty crazy video I saw linked from Slashdot this morning.

Sure looks like fun! A big belly would probably get in the way of the aerodynamics though.

Cron is Different in FreeBSD and Linux

A while ago I got into updating my FreeBSD installation automatically. Now, I wrote my blog entry but didn’t test the cron part. I found a nice page that explained getting cron running on linux. I’m pretty sure I didn’t search for linux but that’s what I found and I figured most things like this […]

Give One Laptop To A Needy Child, Keep One For Yourself!

This Christmas (or any time after Nov. 12) you can purchase a neat laptop for your child or yourself and one will be sent to a child in a developing country at the same time! The OLPC project has been an interesting one. Initially their goal was to make a laptop for $100 so that […]

Net Neutrality Anyone?

This is a repost from my post at Open Source Community. Thought it was important enough to post here as well.

Even if you accept the argument that all P2P traffic is inherently evil, and that Comcast has the right to disrupt it in order to put a stop to copyright infringement, Comcast’s traffic-shaping efforts have […]