September 28, 2008
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I love Internet radio. I’m lucky enough to live near a great radio station, WNCW in Western NC, which plays a wide variety of music outside the mainstream, but many people aren’t so lucky. And, even as eclectic as WNCW … Continue reading
September 18, 2008
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One of the perpetual pains of desktop Linux is dealing with DVDs and proprietary video and audio formats. Ubuntu, like the other Linuxes, have the same problem. Now, however, Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, has made it easier for Ubuntu … Continue reading
September 12, 2008
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“Read my lips; no new taxes,” President George H. W. Bush; “I did not have sexual relations with that woman,” President Bill Clinton;” and “Windows Vista has turned into a phenomenal product, better than any other OS we’ve ever built … Continue reading
September 3, 2008
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Three years after DirecTV dumped its partnership with TiVo, the companies announced that they would be working together again. Specifically, TiVo will be making a new HD DVR for DirecTV with Internet support. This is due to appear in the … Continue reading
August 18, 2008
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When I was a kid, I used to make crude little animated cartoons in my notebooks using the flipbook technique. Walt Disney had nothing to worry about. I was awful even by the 3rd grade standards of White Pine elementary. … Continue reading
July 5, 2008
by sjvn01
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Adobe Flash Player 10 for Linux may only be a beta, but it’s one heck of a beta. I didn’t care for Adobe Flash video at first. It was just another proprietary audio/video format in a world already over-flowing with … Continue reading