Category Archives: open source
Math Substitution in Vim
Today, I needed to change some our term codes into human readable text. Because our codes operate on fiscal year, which rolls over in July, codes for the spring term include the actual calendar year they’re in. But the code for the fall term includes the calendar year plus one (ie. Fall 2011 is written [...]
Linus Torvalds, Ethics and Forking
response to Linus' recent interview
A while ago, I read this interesting interview with Linus Torvalds, the founder of the Linux kernel. I’m hardly smarter than Linus, but I’ll say a couple things: His position on ethics is either stupid or poorly articulated. He says that ethics are private, but then immediately turns around and say [the sharing of code [...]
Google Drops h.264 Support
Still a win for users
I found an article today via Jay Sitter’s Google Reader share about Chrome dropping h.264 support. There seems to be a lot of confusion in this article as to: the difference between native support and support via a plugin (NOT the same thing!) the difference between video encoded via a particular codec and delivered via flash and [...]
Strip Out GC Pocket Query Numbers
A Quick Bash Script
When I get pocket queries from Geocaching.com, I always tick the “include the name of the query” box, as it’s a lot easier to keep files named 4497272_Decatur.gpx and 4858029_Springfield.gpx straight when they’re more than just numbers. Unfortunately, those pesky numbers are a pain when it comes to using gpsbabel to load caches–it’d be alot [...]
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Labor in a Post-Scarcity World?
A few days ago, Tycho posed this question on his blog: What does labor look like in a mostly/quasi post-scarcity world? I don’t have the answer to this question, but I’m really curious about the answer. As usual, this is what makes open source so fascinating–rather than fight or try to sidestep the idea that [...]
Announcing Open Source Drum Loops
for worship - a new blog
I’m launching a new blog today–I’m finally taking my own advice and creating a blog that’s particularly niche. The new blog is Open Source Drum Loops for Worship. Since our drummer at church moved on to other things, I decided it was time to start playing the laptop and working on the tension between the [...]
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Solve Video Flicker on Jaunty with ATI X1250
I have a fairly new Acer Extensa 4420 that I run Linux on. The new version of Ubuntu, Jaunty, runs really well, except that the default ATI driver for my Radeon X1250 card gives me weird flickering and poor performance. This is because ATI decided to drop support (ie. stop updating drivers) for these cards. This is [...]
TYP03 and Christianity
Here’s an interesting, albeit brief, interview with TYPO3 lead dev Kasper Skårhøj, where he touches on open source software as a means towards ministry. It’s interesting, but there’s not quite enough content to really dig into the issues, unfortunately. That said, TYPO3 is a pretty serious CMS product I’ve looked at the in past, but have always [...]
Jaunty Jackelope: best Ubuntu yet
Last night, I installed Jaunty Jackelope, the newest version of Ubuntu Linux. Overall, I think this is the best version of Ubuntu we’ve seen yet. There’s been talking about how fast Jaunty boots. And I can vouch for it: it’s noticably faster than even my Crunchbang install. There’s a couple bug notices that flash up when the boot starts–if those [...]
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