Wisdom from the net as collected by Charlie (aka Cyberchuck)
Nov 30th 2006cyberchucktxLINUX & Open Source & Technical
Personal Fedora Core 6 Installation Guide: This guide a personal configuration of Fedora Core 6. This page is to provide some common installation tips that people may find useful. Keep in mind this works for me, so take care in doing proper backups to critical files whenever trying something.
Nov 30th 2006cyberchucktxBizarre & Humor
CatsThatLookLikeHitler: just what it says … SOMEONE has TOO MUCH FREE TIME!
Does your cat look like Adolf Hitler? Do you wake up in a cold sweat every night wondering if he’s going to up and invade Poland? Does he keep putting his right paw in the air while making a noise that sounds suspiciously like “Sieg Miaow”? If so, this is the website for you.
Nov 30th 2006cyberchucktxBizarre & Blogging & Humor & Media & Misc2 & Online
Nov 29th 2006cyberchucktxHardware & Medical-Biological & Technical & Wearables
Acoustic sensors make surfaces interactive : article at New Scientist Tech.
A series of acoustic sensors that turn any surface into a touch-sensitive computer interface have been developed by European researchers. Continue Reading »
Nov 29th 2006cyberchucktxHardware & LINUX & Open Source & Technical & Video
LightScribe Direct Disc Labeling Launches Public Linux Toolkit
: article at DailyTech. LightScribe gives Linux support but a color-capable version is still in resesarch
Continue Reading »
Nov 28th 2006cyberchucktxHardware & LINUX & Networking & Technical
Linux powers “Killer NIC” for gaming: article at Linux Devices.com.
Gaming equipment startup Bigfoot Networks is shipping a Linux-powered NIC (network interface card) aimed at improving network gaming performance. The Killer Network Interface Card has a 400MHz PowerPC processor and hardware UDP/IP acceleration. An application development contest is underway. Continue Reading »
Nov 28th 2006cyberchucktxLINUX & Technical & Windoze
Kernel Comparison Linux vs Windows from WIDEFOX (not sure of the origin of the author(s)).
Pretty decent table-based comparison of LINUX & Windows Continue Reading »
Nov 28th 2006cyberchucktxPolitics
Christian Alliance for Progress: “The Movement to Reclaim Christianity and Transform Politics. ”
I’m REAL leery of this one, but it definitely bears watching. Initial impression: progressive, but a bit agressive in the “church vs state” argument. Continue Reading »
Nov 28th 2006cyberchucktxHardware & Technical
AltairKit.com: Home of the New Altair 8800 Kit!
I’m REALLY dating myself here, but … it was my first experience with building a computer (I had had mainframe experience, but this was my first “hands on hardware” device).
Nov 27th 2006cyberchucktxPolitics & Progressive
American Democracy Institute: “Join the Conversation”.
The American Democracy Institute is a new kind of progressive think tank. We think it’s what’s right – not who’s right – that matters.
[Note by blogger (me): if they're REAL and non-partisan this could be very interesting. IMHO we're all SICK of partisanship]
[Note2: wellll this'll bear watching. One of the Board of Directors is the former finance chair for the DNC, so it'll be interesting to see if any conservative-labelled ideas are presented.]
Nov 27th 2006cyberchucktxTechnical & Video
DeVeDe: DVD production under LINUX. DeVeDe is a program to create video DVDs and CDs (VCD, sVCD or CVD), suitables for home players, from any number of video files, in any of the formats supported by Mplayer. The big advantage over other utilites is that it only needs Mplayer, Mencoder, DVDAuthor, VCDImager and MKisofs (well, and Python 2.4, PyGTK and PyGlade), so its dependencies are really small.
Nov 27th 2006cyberchucktxAudio & Technical & Video
Varsha: a GUI based DVD authoring tool for Linux. You can make DVDs from your mpeg files as well as digital still pictures (Slideshow DVD). You can even combine slideshows with regular video and make them accessible through menus. Using Varsha, you can also create menus incorporating backdrop of still pictures as well as moving video background.
Varsha is written in Java. It uses already available command line programs such as dvdauthor, dvd+rw-tools, mkisofs, mjpegtools etc., to do various things in background. Continue Reading »
Nov 27th 2006cyberchucktxEnvironmental & Media & Progressive2
Nov 27th 2006cyberchucktxEnvironmental & Media & Progressive2
Urban Harvest: working with gardens and orchards to built healthy communities.
Urban Harvest is a nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening communities through gardening education. Continue Reading »
Nov 26th 2006cyberchucktxGraphics & Misc & Publishing & Technical
Rainbow Technology Paper capable of storing 450GB developed by MCA Student. Continue Reading »
Nov 26th 2006cyberchucktxCollaboration & Work
Collanos: Collanos: team enabling your computer. Cross-platform (Windows/LINUX/OSX) workspace-based collaborative platform. Continue Reading »
Nov 26th 2006cyberchucktxOpen Source & Technical & Video
KDE DVD Authoring Wizard: This wizard will allow you to create a DVD from one or more DVD compatible MPEG-2 files. It is designed to be very easy to use. All you need to do is add one or multiple files to the playlist and answer the questions that follow.
You can add a menu that will contain animated thumbnails of the files in the playlist. Creating a menu is optional.
GUI front end to DVD Author, an Open Source program to produce DVDs.
Nov 24th 2006cyberchucktxPolitics & Statistics & Technical3
VerifiedVoting.org�VerifiedVoting.org: champions reliable and publicly verifiable elections in the United States.
Nov 23rd 2006cyberchucktxMobile Communications & Technical & VOIP/SIP
JAJAH: web-activated telephony. “Enter your own phone number and the phone number you want to call on www.jajah.com, press Call: Your phone will ring – your friend’s phone will ring – start talking! It’s what you’re used to, it’s simple, it’s free and it just works!”
Well, FREE except for the $.025 / minute charge.
Still, a pretty good idea.
Nov 23rd 2006cyberchucktxAJAX & PHP & Programming