April 2007 archive


25 April 2007

The Freeness of Free Software

I hope you don't feel neglected, dear reader. I spent the weekend learning how to do something and am working on writing up a howto for it. It may not be something my regular readers will have an immediate need for, but I suspect it will be popular with the Google crowd.
I'm uncertain [...]

15 April 2007

bash shell script: copy only files modifed after specified date

Or maybe you just want to tar up only directories and subdirectories, excluding files...
I've mentioned a few times lately that I'm working on my backup plan for GNU/Linux. I started by looking at great free software tools like Samba's rsync and GNU Tar, and I don't think I need to look much further than [...]

13 April 2007

Friday Photopost: Minneapolis, Minnesota

"Pacing in rhythm... Race the oncoming night...
Headfirst humanity... Pause at a light... Then flow through the streets of the city."
I'm not much of a photographer. I like taking pictures and sometimes get lucky on a shot. I see now that I really missed on this one. I was only looking at the [...]

8 April 2007

Brasero does the CD burning job in GNOME

Update, 7 July 2007 Maybe Brasero is more for the basic jobs. K3b will do more for you...
My system76 desktop machine came with a CD-RW/DVD-RW drive that I've finally got around to trying out. I wasn't too concerned about how it would work with GNU/Linux, since I suspected CD and DVD burning [...]

3 April 2007

A Charismatic Operating System?

Ray Kurzweil occasionally uses imaginary conversations as a device to discuss ideas in his books The Singularity is Near and The Age of Spiritual Machines. They usually involve people from the future and the past (Ned Ludd, for example). Here is a more contemporaneous dialog between himself and a pretend Bill Gates from [...]