My birthday is coming up in a couple weeks, and I’m now having a decision nightmare. Here’s a little background first: the only mp3 player I own is a 512MB iPod Shuffle, and I haven’t bought any guitar gear in almost 4 years! I can’t decide what I want for my birthday. I really want… Continue reading PODful Birthday
Author: Philip Cain
Ninja Master of the Series of Tubes, musician, audio engineer and geek. More about Philip...
New Job and New Chapter in Life
I’ve been hired as the assistant audio engineer at Pantano Christian Church, one of Tucson’s semi-mega-churches. There will be good times ahead. Currently, I’m responsible for running the monitor console, as well as front-of-house when I’m needed. I have a lot of goals for the future of the sound ministry at PCC, and this is… Continue reading New Job and New Chapter in Life
Diary of a Dead Computer
My primary desktop, an Athlon running Kubuntu, died last night. Specifically, I was in the middle of doing something, when all of sudden everything froze up. I could CTRL-ALT to other terminals, so I did. The password prompt took longer than usual. “Uh oh,” I thought to myself, “that looks like the kernel is having… Continue reading Diary of a Dead Computer
Oxygen vs. Tango, Round 1
These are samples of two icon themes for Linux desktops with the same goal in mind: usability and breathtaking beauty. The problem is, Oxygen (the bottom two icons) is being created by David Vignoni for the KDE Appeal Project, which will appear in KDE 4 (and most likely Kubuntu and SuSE, since David has a… Continue reading Oxygen vs. Tango, Round 1
Ubuntu Packages (or a web GUI for Ubuntu repos)
Here is the preview as promised. A web-based frontend for Ubuntu Repositories. Similar in function to packages.ubuntu.com, but similar in style to Download.com and Linspire’s CNR. Whaddya think? Do we need something like this, or is Synaptic/Adept/apt-get/packages.ubuntu.com enough? I think it is a great to explore the endless software possibilities available to Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Edubuntu users.
Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger)
I didn’t have any time to make contributions to this Ubuntu release. Oh well, maybe next time. There have been some excellent improvements over 5.04, and I’ll just give a preview of what I know so far. I ran the Ubuntu 5.10 Preview Release Live CD (which is a few weeks old) on my Sager… Continue reading Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger)
My Geek Score
I was hoping for higher, but Supreme Computer Geek should suffice.
Google Blogsearch
Holy crap awesome! http://blogsearch.google.com/ It is crazy easy to find others’ blog posts, let alone my own posts. I think the technology that went into it included robots sniffing for WordPress and friends. Maybe blogs aren’t that overblown, after all? I for one welcome our new (well, not that new) Google overlords.
What the heck is going on?
I’m sorry, I thought we lived in America. Three cheers for the blogosphere, which has saved us from the censored corporate media. Media being turned away from Jefferson Parish FEMA to Reuters: no photos of the dead Rape, Murder and Beatings in Astrodome (Houston!!), and Emergency Radio broadcast blocked (caution – I’m not endorsing this… Continue reading What the heck is going on?
Katrina Disaster Not Void of Religious Fanatics
From a recent Reuters article I just finished perousing: “Natural disaster is caused by the sin in the world,” said Maj. John Jones, the group’s area commander. “The acts of God are what happens afterwards … all the good that happens.” So, then, what was the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah? What about the Great… Continue reading Katrina Disaster Not Void of Religious Fanatics