Tag Archives: Linux

Windows Vista Makes an Impact

Posted on December 2, 2008 by T. Fischer

Today, Slashdot posted an entry about Window’s 89.6% market share. According to the real article:

Windows’ share shows no sign of stopping its slow slide; in the past 12 months, Microsoft’s market share has fallen from 91.79%, a decrease of …

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Hi, I’m Trever Fischer and I play WoW.

Posted on October 22, 2008 by T. Fischer

I’ve succumbed to the disease. After watching @keylynn play MapleStory for hours on end, I realized that I wanted to play a MMORPG really badly. The last one I played was Final Fantasy XI, and that was years ago …

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Easy Atmel AVRDUDE upload script

Posted on September 29, 2008 by T. Fischer

For my ASM and systems programming class, we occasionally write programs and need to upload them to the programmer board. Since my laptop only has USB ports, I was given a USB-to-Serial converter. In windows, there is device probing …

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Happy Birthday, Fedora!

Posted on September 24, 2008 by T. Fischer

Today marks the fedora project’s 5th year of existence! Hooray!

I myself started using Fedora back when it was “Fedora Core”, just after FC3 came out. I had converted my windows 98 “server” machine (back then called Earth) to the …

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The State of Glovebox

Posted on September 4, 2008 by T. Fischer

First, I’ll show off the logo for Glovebox:

Second, Glovebox development has stalled a little bit over the last few weeks due to college starting up again for me. So, I’ll just give a quick overview over whats changed since …

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Keeping your mythbackend alive

Posted on August 7, 2008 by T. Fischer

For my network, I’ve got two Mythtv machines. One is Saturn, the main recording backend. The other is Neptune, the supercharged media workhorse who has a frontend in addition to running my distributed DVD ripping, being part of a …

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Announcing: Glovebox, your in-car assistant!

Posted on July 29, 2008 by T. Fischer

For most of the summer, I spent my limited idle time thinking up what kind of big project I wanted to accomplish next, now that my MythTV system was ticking along just fine. My Hiveminder list had a few …

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Reinstalling GRUB

Posted on June 5, 2008 by T. Fischer

To add a few megs of space to my LiveDrive USB project, I repartitioned the drive in gparted, created some new LVM parititions, and then reinstalled the disk data by unpacking a tar archive I previously created. One crucial …

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Upgrading your Glom databases

Posted on June 3, 2008 by T. Fischer

I use the Gnome application Glom to maintain a personal database of things. I use it instead of KDE’s Kexi because it is more complete and doesn’t crash nearly as much. I created my Glom database before I upgraded …

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TechCrunch wants a Logo War

Posted on February 21, 2008 by T. Fischer

TechCrunch has a post up about how the Data Portability group is using Fedora’s logo. TechCrunch agrees with Marc Canter who says, “Do NOT spend 0.001% of your mindshare – time – or energy – worrying about a LOGO! …

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