Category: Linux

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Texas Linux Fest April 2nd!

By Michael Palmer |  Mar 15, 2011  | linux
Almost missed Texas Linux Fest this year! Last year it fell on a non-good weekend for me. I’m going to actually try and attend this year. Lots of good sponsors, and good speakers!
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Gentoo PortageView

By Michael Palmer |  Sep 4, 2003  | linux, programming
Been working on a side project. It’s finished pretty much. PortageView. Its sorta a searchable database of portage. Works nice. and its Fast. Saw Type-O Negative in concert last night. It was a great concert, except the club it was at had a lot of audio problems and Peter was getting pissed off. But what can you expect from a 25 year old club that has no working A/C.
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Logitech MX700/MX500 Linux Setup

By Michael Palmer |  Jul 29, 2003  | linux
I just set up this Logitech MX700/MX500 howto for linux and xfree 4.2/4.3. I figured I’d blog it so google would catch it and then people could find it. This quick reference should be fine for setup on all linux distro’s as it is not distro dependent. Just for grins I am doing this on Gentoo.Also, this should work perfectly on the mx500 also. I have not tested it ’cause I don’t have one, but from what I hear, they are the same mouse.
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Ripping audio from DVDs

By Michael Palmer |  Jun 24, 2003  | linux
I wanted to make note of this in my blog so I could reference it later. Very Handy way to rip audio from dvds. Thanks Jeremy Zawodny and David Dorward I use Transcode for this, for example: transcode -i /dev/dvd -p /dev/dvd -T 1,1 -E 44100 -y null,wav -m myAudio.wav -s 3 http://zebra.fh-weingarten.de/~transcode/ Read More : Jeremy Zawodny’s blog: DVD Audio Extraction?
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