Tag: linux
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Time lapse photography with a Canon Powershot G2 on Linux
This is something that’s sort of been bugging me for a while. Not that I really want to do a lot of time lapse photography, per se, but that I want to be able to tell my camera to take a bunch of pictures, say one every 15 seconds for a certain amount of time…
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So…I downloaded Shredder, Mozilla’s development version of Thunderbird, for my…
So…I downloaded Shredder, Mozilla’s development version of Thunderbird, for my @PeppermintOS laptop, which fixed the issue of Thunderbird not opening Chromium when I click a link in an email. However, Shredder is not compatible with any version o…
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PeppermintOS: Minty Fresh!
A while ago, I decided it was time to get a laptop. I’ve been meeting with local clients more and having a laptop handy would make a lot of that stuff go more smoothly. I’m also on the web committee for my kids’ school, and have had to borrow someone else’s laptop to do WordPress…
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Why dual-boot Linux when you can run it from a USB flash drive?
I’ve been a sideline fan of Linux for a long time. My very first experience with it was buying one of those 800 page, dictionary-sized technical manuals for Linux which came with Red Hat, Slackware and Caldera. I effectively destroyed my Windows 95 box trying to get Red Hat installed and failing. After that, I was much more cautious,…
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wp-o-matic trick
discovered a trick about wp-o-matic as i was building the new site. for wp-o-matic to work and not lag, you need to set up a cron job. but said cron job doesn’t *necessarily* need to happen on the host server. so, if you have a server that allows cron jobs (which i do, at home)…
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now in penguin-vision
i’ve been a longtime fan and occasional user of linux. i had it running for about a year as my primary operating system under ubuntu. microsoft announced the release of their windows 7 RC-1 the other day, and as part of the announcement stated that all of their beta testers, whether you’re using win 7 beta…