Archive for the ‘Tools’ Category
SCaLE 6x: I’m Here - Saturday in Review
Just left Jono Bacon’s presentation on “The future of the Linux Desktop”. He’s quite an awesome presenter. Afterward, I went down to the exhibit floor and got to say hi to Tom Callaway and actually met Thomas Chung from the Fedora Project. Both of these guys have such exuberance and joy, I [...]
UTOSF HackNight - Tonight: New Location: Guru Labs
UPDATE!
A quick update for those who are planning on attending tonight’s UTOSF HackNight. Its been moved to Guru Labs in Bountiful. If you still need a ride, feel free to email me, herlo1@gmail or you can twitter me at http://twitter.com/herlo.
If you still need a ride up, we’ll carpool/caravan up from my place [...]
My new Eeep C
This little machine is pretty nice. I’m getting used to the interface right now as the keyboard is a bit smaller than my normal T60p. A few keys are in a different spot, but overall, this little machine rocks!!
Probably my biggest headache right now is the right Shift key is further over than [...]
Dig this!
Hi all,
While at work today, setting up test environments for Ubuntu Gutsy (7.10), I needed to check something with the ubuntu.com DNS entries. So I ran the following:
# dig -t ns ubuntu.com
And got something very interesting and entertaining. Can you see what it was? Yes, the mythic-beasts are definitely alive and well [...]
Distro Comparison: openSUSE 10.3 - Day 3
Wow, I’m excited by the response, and while I still believe that openSUSE is not the distro for me, it definitely has grown on me. I believe on my last review, I might have been a bit hasty in stating that just about everything was useless. And while I do have a few [...]
A New Series: Distro Comparisons, with Flair!
Its been a little couple weeks since I posted anything useful in my Program of the Week (POW) series. And while I still plan to keep that up in the near future, I am going to be doing a new series, Distro Comparisons, with Flare!
My plan is to install the other two major distros [...]
LugBin: Improving the Local User Group experience
The charter of the Utah Open Source Foundation is to help Open Source grow in Utah. As part of this charter, we focus on the local community and especially the User Groups.
Because of this goal, we’ve been working hard to come up with some simple, yet effective ideas to help the User Groups overall. [...]
Thunderbird! You’re Annoying us all!
Let me get this out first, I’m a avid fan of all things Mozilla. Even with the limitations they cause, the problems I’ve heard about Firefox and Thunderbird and all that Jazz, I’m still a big fan, current and future consumer of these wonderful applications.
BUT!
Why is it that a bug that has been logged [...]
POW: Agave
An interesting tool I came across in the last week or so is this week’s Program of the Week: Agave, from the GNOME Community. Recently, we’ve been working on a new logo for the Utah Open Source Foundation, and needed to come up with some simple color schemes that would work well with our [...]
POW: apg, Automated Password Generator
This week’s program may seem like a bit of a cop out, but it really isn’t. I’ve regularly found myself in need of some quick passwords to hand out to users that are both semi-secure and easy to remember. With apg, this can become a reality.
First, install apg:
# yum install apg
.. snip ..
Install [...]
