John Alberts on January 12th, 2009

Wow! I have to have one of these chairs! Perhaps the most amazing gaming throne you will ever see. read more | digg story

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John Alberts on January 10th, 2009

Nice little summary of great features of the 2.6.28 kernel. I have to agree. I just installed the 2.6.28 kernel as part of my new Funtoo install a few days ago, and I haven’t run into any problems yet. I’m about to give ext4 a try. Hopefully all goes well. [excerpt] This Christmas Linux kernel [...]

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John Alberts on March 19th, 2008

Want to learn how to program? Develop in mySQL? Enhance your skills as a developer or programmer or just learn the lingo. Tutorials, lecture slides, and problem sets for a variety of topic areas including AJAX, Distributed Systems, Web Security, Languages and a ton of other great classes – at no cost! I’m glad this [...]

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John Alberts on January 11th, 2008

There’s a poll in the Gentoo forums regarding Daniel Robbins offer today to help get Gentoo Linux back on it’s feet. Gentoo is in serious need of a leader that is not afraid to take action. Please follow the link and vote yes.read more | digg story

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John Alberts on December 14th, 2007

I just realized the Windows Live Writer works with other blogs, such as WordPress, etc.  I thought it only supported MS blogging services.  This is very cool.  It seems to be a nice blog editor. I wonder if it will copy and upload this mythtv picture to my server or steal the bandwidth from gentoo-wiki? [...]

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John Alberts on December 14th, 2007

List of the 50 best opensource applications for Ubuntu, Xubuntu, Kubuntu and Fluxbuntu. I hate when people limit the title of their articles about Linux to only include Ubuntu*. Still, this is a pretty good list of apps for design. read more | digg story

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John Alberts on December 13th, 2007

Well, my internet has been out for about a day now.  This really sucks.  Last night, I wasn’t quite sure what to do without the internet.  I spent most of my night trying to see how many open wireless AP’s were around in my area.Hmm, what to do tonight. Tags: other

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John Alberts on December 11th, 2007

a guide no one has ever used. Does Microsoft seriously think ANYONE would ever follow this guide? All I have to say is, “Nice try Microsoft.”.read more | digg story

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John Alberts on December 9th, 2007

High school girl, ninja, yakuza… a fucking drill bra! Instant win. Now this reminds me of the recent Planet Terror movie. Looks so stupid it’s probably pretty entertaining. read more | digg story

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John Alberts on January 26th, 2007

…and this post is from the Performancing blog editor. I think I like this one better. Seem to have a nicer feel to it. It even supports image uploading, which is a very nice feature. It also has a section for connecting to your del.icio.us bookmarks. You can get it here.

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