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Month: May 2008

MKV’s & Ubuntu – The Saga continues

(yea, slacking on the blog posting. I fail). I still haven’t found a fix on this particular little topic. Of course that doesn’t surprise me seeing as how no one else has an answer either (other than the good ol “It’s just not Linux compatible”). I really hope one of these days that someone gets…

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Linux

Maker Faire

Well I never got to writing about it, even though I wanted to. Maker Faire. It took place May 3rd & 4th in San Mateo, CA. It was really cool, though I didn’t get to see a lot of it. I was volunteering for those fun folks at the Wikimedia Foundation (For those that don’t…

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Tech

RecentChangesCamp 2008

So I’ve been totally slacking on writing blog entries. But Dvorygirl has convinced me (simply by showing me what a slacker I am) to get off my duff and write about RCC 2008. So RecentChangesCamp is a wiki related camp/conference. Where we had conference times and locations — but instead of having paid speakers —…

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Tech

Acid Logic: A Decade of Humorous Writing on Pop Culture, Trash Cinema and Rebel Music

A friend of mine just got a book published. You should all go forth and buy it, for it is available from Amazon and it is Primable, which you don’t always see in books from online publishers. Also, let’s have an obligatory link to his blog: My so-called Penis

Entertainment

Why bother buying local?

This is a serious question I’m grappling with today. I went to the local camera store and saw a lens for my Nikon that I really wanted. They told me it was $400, ok, no big deal. I checked Amazon while still in the store and it was $336. How can I in good conscience…

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DevNull

6 Ubuntu Usability Problems

I was talking with Ben earlier today about Ubuntu and we got into a discussion of usability problems. They aren’t necessarily major issues, but range from annoyances to “duh?”. I figured I’d discuss them, and for a few of them I have Ubuntu Brainstorm links. Mounting of unclean NTFS drives (Brainstorm #4994). This is a…

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Linux

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