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gSharkDown review
Over the years there have been many programs to download music from the Internet. Enter gSharkDown, yet another music downloading program, in this case from popular streaming site Grooveshark. Downloading music in many countries is illegal. Wikipedia paraphrases a decision by the Copyright Board of Canada in which the Copyright Board states that downloading is [...]
Friday August 5, 2011 Ubuntu hour in Kitchener, Ontario
Friday, August 5th, 2011 I’ll be hosting an Ubuntu hour between 6:30pm and 8pm (I know it’s an hour and a half) at Misty Mountain Cafe on 33 Queen Street South in Kitchener. Misty Mountain is a new coffee shop that opened up right beside the Working Centre’s Queen Street Commons cafe. Besides coffee, MM [...]
Clonezilla and gparted to the rescue
A couple of weeks ago some family friends ask that I upgrade their aging PC, a small form factor Dell Celeron 2GHz PC with 256MB of RAM and a 40GB hard drive running Windows XP. Luckily I have a bunch of spare hard drives lying around from constantly upgrading our former Myth-TV system. I picked [...]
Using the Micro Innovations IC435C web cam with Cheese
This article was originally posted on the old version of this web site. I’ve modified it slightly because the article was originally done for Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala and entitled “Using the Micro Innovations IC435C web cam with Cheese under Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala.” Working in a computer refurbishing environment I get a lot of opportunity to test [...]
Line numbers in the vi text editor
It’s a simple thing, but as someone who generally doesn’t code and only uses vi/vim for basic tasks I found myself needing to know how to view line numbers for an open file in vi. It turns out viewing line numbers is really easy – just enter command mode and type set nu (or set [...]
