It seems that WordPress.com really won’t let me customize the themes very much. I can’t install any addons either. I really like the admin interface, and the free blog of course. I’m thinking that maybe I’ll keep my personal blog here and create a seperate blog elsewhere for the Tips and Tricks. That way I [...]
Now that I have decided to start blogging regularly, I’ve been looking for a good blogging editor. I’ve tried some of the post editors that go into the Gnome and KDE panels. They are nice for quick posts, but I am looking for something more full featured.As far as full featured blogging editors go, so [...]
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On amd64 systems, you can use media-video/mplayer-bin to play multimedia files that require 32-bit only codecs (win32codecs), but mplayer doesn’t look as good as the 64-bit native version and it doesn’t integrate very well with the system. KDE users can emerge kmplayer – a KDE based “front end”. If you use konqueror, kmplayer adds a [...]
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With the diverse array of overlays now available to the community, one of the issues a person might have is finding that overlay that is just right for the package they are looking to install. Unfortunately, the default search capabilities of portage are only able to search though overlays that have already been installed on [...]
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I finally hope to start using this blog. At the very least, I want to start putting Linux tips and tricks in here. Most will probably be from the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter, while others may be original.
A recent poll shows a good percentage of *tech-savvy* XP users considering a move to Linux over an upgrade to Vista. It seems Microsoft are pushing users away with more looking at using Linux than legally upgrading. read more | digg story
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