I am playing around with the current theme. Trying to get a more Locutus type of look :) If you have any suggestions let me know. In the meantime don't be phased if things look a little bit weird for a while.

VLC. The swiss army knife of video viewing.

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Submitted by Locutus on Wed, 11/26/2008 - 15:21

Windows users are especially familiar with this. You come across a video file that you wish to see and click on it.

Set your Linux alternative programs.

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Submitted by Locutus on Mon, 11/24/2008 - 16:12

There are many things you can do in Linux and there are many ways to do them. You can have several different programs all able to do the same task and all installed at the same time.

Configure Technisat's TS35-IRUSB commander for Mythtv.

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Submitted by Locutus on Mon, 11/17/2008 - 21:57

If you managed to get one of the latest DVB cards from Technisat, the Skystar 2 revision 2.8 it most probably came with a USB remote control. I got one for a box that I am developing.

Linux makes it easy to customise your system.

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Submitted by Locutus on Fri, 11/14/2008 - 13:10

It is all very well to grab your favourite distribution, whack it in your CD ROM drive and install it.

Recover from a read only mounted file system.

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Submitted by Locutus on Tue, 11/11/2008 - 22:34

It is bound to happen someday. I have had it happen to me several times.

A shift in the wind of system software.

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Submitted by Locutus on Thu, 10/23/2008 - 14:15

I sense a sea change in the wind of operating systems and software. More and more I hear in the news that this company and that company has opened its software to open source.

Shame Google Shame!

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Submitted by Locutus on Mon, 10/20/2008 - 12:23

With all the hype surrounding Google and even with me blogging on how great they are I was shocked to hear about what is happening to those who put their life, literally, on the line.

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