Archives for the ‘Linux/Open Source’ Category

GNOME documentation on International Concerns

I found these helpful hints on “GNOME Human Interface Guidelines 2.2″1: Sensitivity to cultural and political issues is also an important consideration. Designing icons and sounds, and even choosing colors requires some understanding of the connotations they might have to a user from a different part of the world. Examples of elements it is best [...]

‘all we need is love’

I couldn’t help but point this out. Typically religious conversatives are anti-homosexual and anti-immigration. Thankfully enough the Israelites were already given laws by God in how to deal with both of these issues. The aforementioned group has already found the laws concerning what my Bible calls the “unlawful sexual relations”,  at the end of a [...]

ubuntu 8.10

Ubuntu 8.10 is coming very soon. I have placed a countdown to the left on the sidebar for you convenience. There is a beta for download for those of us who can’t wait the few weeks more. It doesn’t seem to be a huge update, but does include some updated key components, their listed highlights [...]

video editing on linux

We bought a video camera little while back. I have been dragging my feet about getting a video editing ‘setup’—it is a dv camera so I need firewire to transfer plus the software to capture and edit. I’ve done some editing, but it has been a few years now. I woud expect everything to be [...]

wordpress server

Well I finally took the time to setup a server for wordpress for myself. I haven’t messed with the style yet but it is up & running. Here is the address hiddenbehindnothing.thruhere.net I am using DynDNS for a reroute to IP. More to come. Update: I have fixed my server problems–I installed ubuntu server 8.04 [...]