When I moved away from OS X, I did so knowing there would be some pesky apps I would not be able to find good Linux equivalents for. Essentially most anything related to audio, photography, and video editing. Yes apps do exist and I continually evaluate them (Davinci Resolve on …
For a long time, I always thought iTunes was Apple’s best feature up until relatively recently. It, plus a few other things Apple with the user experience that I am not a fan of, has caused me to no longer think that. And, in fact, I’m now running Linux a …
I’ve been wanting to try out a RouterBoard for a long while. I ran into them many moons ago in Linux Journal and just could never quite justify it until now. RouterBoards are, as the name implies, routers which run a variant of Linux (RouterOS which is also available on …
I have actually been running Btrfs on our home NAS for a while. At first I was sort of turned off by the name and a bit by the folks behind if. But a nice article over at Ars Technica convinced me to give it a go. Previously, I was …
I have wanted to have an excuse to try Django for a long while and decided to give it a go. I have been thinking about expanding on my Aquariduino controller idea and adding to it a web-based application that can track additional information aside from what I will pull …
I have used the Arduino for a few things now – most notably, for the ShieldBoy and ArduinoBoy Advance (sorry I haven’t made a build doc for that yet). The fun part of those was designing custom boards and, in fact, I’m rather proud of the ArduinoBoy Advance as it …
…and freaked out Camden as we think he was standing by it (and next to our couch) so he could have some privacy while he pooped. The sub let out a series of growls, then POP! Nothing. It probably didn’t help Camden’s fear factor that I was playing Borderlands on …
…it’s amazing! Mac or PC, doesn’t matter – for a system drive SSDs are where it’s at. My boot times have gone down to less than 10 seconds and OS X is fluid and fast again. The drive I ended up going with was the Crucial M4 128GB. I would …
Lately I have realized my M-Audio 2496 cards are starting to show their age. Among other things, they don’t really play nice together on Windows 7, do not sound as good as my Audio 4 DJ USB sound-device, and do not work on my laptop given that they are PCI …
