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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Here is a link to a Ubuntu cheat sheet, full of common terminal commands. Something handy to have around.

Ubuntu is an operating system that includes a lot of free and open source applications and uses Linux as its core. Linux is like this amazing solar-powered engine that can be used in a street car, in a F1 or it can be daisy chained to drive a truck or an airplane. Ubuntu is like [...]