tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-189388232010-02-09T12:18:27.828-08:00I hope you read more than what you came for.Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06304210981063470391noreply@blogger.comBlogger98125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18938823.post-23497803124495430822009-09-14T21:24:00.001-07:002009-09-14T21:51:18.545-07:00

Wireless on a laptop is like wheels on a car. Essential. I've been running gNewSense for a few months and have found it to be very stable and kind to me on my HP dv6226us. Unfortunately there are no free drivers for the built in wireless card. That has meant no wireless networking on this baby. So to get by, I either stayed tethered to the nearest ethernet cable or booted into another OS. The

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06304210981063470391noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18938823.post-74107803266917694132009-08-27T15:22:00.000-07:002009-08-27T15:50:18.701-07:00

I have a Logitech Harmony 510 smart remote that I use to control the devices that live near my TV. Programming the device was simple enough...I plugged it into my computer selected my TV, cable box, and dvd/home theater system and defined a couple activities like Watch TV and Watch DVD. When you trigger one of these, the remote sends the appropriate commands to each device so you can watch what

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In this HOWTO I'm going to take you through running gNewSense, a 100% free operating system, on top of your currently installed operating system. This HOWTO mentions how to run gNewSense on top of Ubuntu and Windows though it's possible to run it on any OS that runs VirtualBox OSE. This HOWTO will only add 100% free-as-in-speech software to your computer because I believe free software provides

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06304210981063470391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18938823.post-25653551144505952962009-02-17T21:58:00.000-08:002009-02-17T22:02:27.487-08:00

If you have a podcast, you probably provide an RSS or XML file for people to subscribe to. If you're interested in tracking how many people are subscribing to your feed and you're running Apache, I've just developed a simple script that counts repeat downloaders of the feed. I look for .rss in the URL but you can easily change that to .xml or whatever matches your feed.You can download the script

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06304210981063470391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18938823.post-2267739082175336332009-01-27T10:29:00.000-08:002009-01-27T10:38:18.470-08:00

In the quest for mobility and to be a more useful computer guy, I signed up for Verizon's BroadbandAccess program. I got a USB EVDO modem that I've got running in either of two laptops. One of which runs Windows XP and the other that runs Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex.Before I went ahead and signed up, I went looking for data on the speeds I could expect from either Verizon or AT&T. I didn't find

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06304210981063470391noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18938823.post-87534231817250095662009-01-11T19:07:00.000-08:002009-01-11T19:09:20.593-08:00

One great way to use SSH is to run a single command on a remote server like this:ssh user@host command'command' here can be anything and the text output will be piped back to your local terminal.I was having a problem with a few servers where this wasn't working. Turns out the problem was this line in my user's .bashrc[ -z "$PS1" ] && exit 0In this case, the -z tests "$PS1" (the prompt string)

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06304210981063470391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18938823.post-62149290575561528942008-11-29T19:28:00.001-08:002008-11-29T19:55:37.078-08:00

Today, we went out to Union Square in San Francisco and armed with my camera and a distant memory of rotating Egyptian pyramids, I decided I would try to put together a GIF animation of the Christmas Tree. What I did then was to take about 15 pictures each from 2 feet apart moving around the big Christmas Tree. This is the result:/tree-rotate.gif">HOWTO: Creating GIF Animations with The GIMP1.

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06304210981063470391noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18938823.post-33155814260979495162008-09-04T15:02:00.000-07:002008-09-04T15:54:30.009-07:00

If you need to work on a remote *nix server, you have undoubtedly used OpenSSH. The way it helps securely control remote machines makes it one of a handful of essential sysadmin tools. But this great tool does have a flaw and no I'm not talking about a buffer overflow or memory leak. The problem arises when connecting to a server for the first time. For example, we've all seen this:The

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06304210981063470391noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18938823.post-16777723530147285222008-08-25T11:47:00.000-07:002008-08-25T11:51:29.533-07:00

Generally, I like to write about things that work on my blog but I've seen how just asking a question can sometimes bring a solution together. So here's my current problem:I am attempting to connect to a Windows 2003 Server via the Ubuntu Hardy Heron default Terminal Services Client and when I click connect the window just goes away. I've tried again and then that window goes away again. About 2-

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06304210981063470391noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18938823.post-69932795063755905242008-08-16T14:26:00.000-07:002008-08-16T14:58:46.471-07:00

Ever since I ripped my music collection to MP3 format and began collecting MP3s online, I've been struggling with managing and listening to all this music. In the past I've used WinAmp and iTunes on Windows XP to manage music locally. I've used Edna(a python script) to serve the music using its built in web server. Finally, I've copied this 30GB library a few times only to delete parts of it as I

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06304210981063470391noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18938823.post-62608765310567623542008-06-01T17:04:00.001-07:002008-06-01T17:36:34.247-07:00

This had to be by design. Jobs must love hackers. I am positive Steve Jobs wanted the iPhone to be the kind of awesome only an underground elite squad of coders could program it to be. How else could the iPhone be so much better jailbroken? I guess what I'm trying to say is: I jailbroke my iPhone. I've been using it stock for a good three months waiting for legal apps to come out but enough is

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06304210981063470391noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18938823.post-49746015783081358702008-05-10T23:18:00.001-07:002008-05-10T23:22:08.247-07:00

I looked all around the internet(Google) for lyrics to this song that I'm hearing about 100 times a day and couldn't find it. So I typed 'em out. Enjoy.Super WHY! Theme Song Lyrics - PBSWho's got the powerThe power to readWho answers the call for friends in need?Super WHY!Super WHY!He's the guy, he's Super WHY!Who's got the powerThe power to readWho looks into books for the answers we need?Super

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06304210981063470391noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18938823.post-43072224638130822082008-05-06T16:26:00.000-07:002008-05-06T16:44:04.931-07:00

I've had an iPhone for the past couple of months and I'm what you'd call a heavy user. I need email on the go and I like to check websites as well. So I figure it'd be useful to mention a few things I think haven't been mentioned before about the device.1. The iPhone is one of the few devices you can actually hand to a baby(granted it's protected by an incase) and not worry about random phone

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06304210981063470391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18938823.post-86435219614863550582008-02-25T14:55:00.000-08:002008-02-25T15:19:12.703-08:00

I'm starting to believe in the power of audio to spread Linux. The nice thing about podcasts is that you can absorb them while doing other things but you can learn a lot. If you're like me, you login to Youtube to check out some videos and you end up shifting over to some other page midstream. So you miss part of the video and basically you're then listening to a (poor) podcast.Why now? Well I

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06304210981063470391noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18938823.post-24421350673672399192008-01-29T09:37:00.001-08:002008-01-29T09:39:53.814-08:00

Just ran across these videos on Youtube just taken at IIT Tech fest in India. John Hall of Linux Journal discusses Free Software with a small crowd.Looks like a 5 part video so look out for the rest...

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06304210981063470391noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18938823.post-47174281804249848912007-11-09T17:05:00.000-08:002007-11-09T17:10:55.801-08:00

So say the folks over at Real Fresh TV.Since we've just gotten started it's obviously an honor to be mentioned positively so early in our evolution. It's our goal to be the best Twitter Search Engine out there and we look forward to user feedback that will help us make an impact on the Social Networking and Twitter scene.If you'd like to try it out, go to tweetscan.com. There you can search

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06304210981063470391noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18938823.post-73058340771738841592007-11-08T00:33:00.000-08:002007-11-08T00:39:29.847-08:00

Tweet Scan is now capturing all public tweets.For the past month or so, I've been building and testing Tweet Scan and capturing enough tweets to make thing interesting. A search tool is supposed to find what people want and Tweet Scan was missing probably 95% of tweets.So I've just updated the capture engine to get as close to 100% of public tweets as possible. If you think it's missing a recent

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06304210981063470391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18938823.post-36268839130678094752007-10-25T21:33:00.000-07:002007-10-25T21:51:33.812-07:00

Today, I'm releasing Tweet Scan for your enjoyment. Tweet Scan emails you every day or week with the Twitter messages you choose.Twitter has given me something fun to do with my Treo's web browser and for that I thank them. My special way of thanking goes beyond just putting my hands together gratefully and looking toward the sky. I created Tweet Scan. It allows you to search recent Twitter

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06304210981063470391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18938823.post-89086704624088328152007-09-03T18:42:00.001-07:002007-09-03T19:10:40.075-07:00

There's this new service called Twitter. It's part chat room, part mobile app, part social network and if you're here, you're thinking about getting yourself setup with it. It's pretty simple to setup an account but to get the most out of the service, I think there are a few more things you ought to know.1. Get an account. Go to Twitter.com and go through the few steps it takes to setup an

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06304210981063470391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18938823.post-83010921682548025122007-08-31T01:11:00.000-07:002007-09-04T10:07:07.528-07:00

Yesterday, I started grabbing the public_timeline xml file from twitter every 2 minutes and sticking it into a database. Then I hooked up my favorite ajax search script and set it up at http://www.davidsterry.com/tsearch.What you do is just type in a word or a couple of words and in a second you'll see some recent twitter posts that match. I've always found it frustrating to read the

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06304210981063470391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18938823.post-40928467104808267882007-08-24T02:03:00.000-07:002007-08-24T02:17:28.149-07:00

I recently installed Ubuntu on a laptop that's resource challenged. While that could mean a lot of things, let's just say it has 128 MB of RAM and a mobile P3. It's not so bad because it's a small and cute laptop but anyway, I had to do a PXE boot(since it has no CD drive) and Ubuntu is what I happened to install.After using it for a bit, I realized it'd probably be a good idea to switch it to

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06304210981063470391noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18938823.post-65872035674653730672007-08-20T02:17:00.000-07:002007-08-24T02:22:19.196-07:00

There's this nagging problem I have on my laptop and maybe you, my trusty readers, have a solution. I'm running Beryl in Edgy and every time I boot up, everything is fine until about 1 minute after everything loads. Right then, Beryl restarts. I don't know why or how but it happens like clockwork and it's not too cool. It makes some of my windows resize just a smidge bigger than the desktop and

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06304210981063470391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18938823.post-36913420903702794882007-08-14T00:39:00.000-07:002007-08-14T00:47:12.224-07:00

That's it. I've had it. I've been surfing too much on the web and have nothing to show for it except an absurdly intimate knowledge of web 2.0 and the social procrasto-sphere. Twitter. Kyte. Pownce. Please.So I've decided to enhance my copy of Firefox with what may be the most productivity-enhancing extension I'll ever know. It's called Meetimer and it's keeping track of my websurfing time as

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06304210981063470391noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18938823.post-41517752582923348772007-08-09T17:04:00.000-07:002007-08-09T18:17:00.547-07:00

I'm extremely excited about a new company and what they're enabling people to do in terms of using audio, video and text to communicate in a brand new way. Kyte.tv allows anyone with a recording device to create a channel and produce shows on that channel. Each channel has its own url and producing a show is as easy as recording from your webcam, emailing pictures from your phone, or simply

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06304210981063470391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18938823.post-66284170396658567192007-07-23T16:11:00.000-07:002007-08-09T17:03:49.510-07:00

I've discovered Google Reader. The next best thing to having an ethernet jack right between the skull and 1st vertebra. Google reader along with their little "Next >>" bookmark makes sifting through all the news (or detritus) of the day all too easy.First you get yourself an account with Google if you don't already have one. Then go to reader.google.com and add 1 or 20 subscriptions.Then you go

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