Eric Mesa | October 31, 2008
Since both Gentoo and Sabayon were included on this Linux Format DVD, I decided I would first try and install Gentoo and then Sabayon and compare how easy the installations were since Sabayon is a derivative distro from Gentoo. As you know, I was unable to get a working installation from the LiveCD of Gentoo. [...]
Category: Linux |
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Tags: Gentoo, Sabayon, Sabayon 3.5, Sabayon 3.5 Pod
Eric Mesa | October 30, 2008
For a long while there I didn’t want to check out the Avant Window Navigator (AWN) because I was shunning Compiz. But now that I’m back on the Compiz (and since Metacity should have compositing “soon” anyway) I decided to give a shot when it was featured in Linux Format Magazine Issue 112. I found [...]
Category: Gnome, Linux |
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Tags: Avant Window Navigator, AWN, Compiz, Composite Manager, Compositing
Eric Mesa | October 30, 2008
Unless something went wrong between when I’m writing this post at 2324 on 29 Oct and tomorrow when it’s scheduled to launch, Congrats to the Canonical and the Ubuntu Release team on Ubuntu 8.10. The servers will probably be pounded today, so you might want to wait a few days before upgrading. I [...]
Category: ubuntu |
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Eric Mesa | October 26, 2008
Another distro in the seven distros included in Linux Format Magazine issue #110 is Gentoo 2008.0. This is an interesting release given the recent news that, at least for the time being, Gentoo is not going to be releasing these discs anymore. Apparently for both of the last two years there has been a lot [...]
Category: Linux |
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Tags: FreeBSD, Gentoo, Gentoo 2008.0, LiveCD
Eric Mesa | October 22, 2008
For some reason, I didn’t get Linux Format Magazine issue #110 when I was supposed to. I ordered another copy and it arrived recently, so it’s time for another slate of Linux reviews. Unfortunately, something appears to be wrong with the way they mastered the magazine DVD, because I was unable to boot [...]
Category: KDE, Linux |
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Tags: KDE, LiveCD, Slackware, Slax
Eric Mesa | October 21, 2008
Got Spore on Saturday and I’ve been playing it more or less non-stop since then. It was very, very fun! A lot more fun than I expected from the reviews. I don’t blame the reviewers since the game had been hyped for the past three years. I think the cell stage [...]
Category: Computers, Video Games |
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Eric Mesa | October 18, 2008
First my amaturish Creative Commons video:
The Creative Commons from djotaku on Vimeo.
Now, this awesome one I saw on Lawrence Lessig’s Blog:
Share and Enjoy:
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Tags: Creative Commons
Eric Mesa | October 17, 2008
So, I was working on fixing up some armature problems with the characters for I’m Not Mad. If you watch David’s Lip Sync you can see there were some major fixes needed for the Dan and Dave characters. Well, in the time since I started working on the character models Blender 2.46 was released. In [...]
Category: computer animation |
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Tags: I'm Not Mad
Eric Mesa | October 16, 2008
The following was live-blogged on 25 Jul 2008:
Got my Neuros OSD today via UPS! w00t w00t! I’ve been lusting after this since it was featured in Linux Format Magazine last month. (or was it two months ago?) I unpacked the contents and skimmed through the quick start guide. Then I hooked it up in my [...]
Category: Geek Love, Linux |
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Tags: MythTv, Neuros OSD, Totem
Eric Mesa | October 14, 2008
I just got Anberlin’s latest album, “New Surrender”. I was pretty lukewarm about “Cities” and Danielle just about hated it. We both loved “Blueprints for the Black Market” and “Never Take Friendship Personal”. This album is a return to the sounds and lyrics of those first two albums. I loved it upon first listen. Danielle [...]
Category: Music |
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Tags: Anberlin, New Surrender
Eric Mesa | October 14, 2008
Hardly a day goes by that I don’t see an article on Linux Today about Moonlight and what a horrible person Miguel de Icaza is. So I thought I’d go ahead and do some exploration of what’s going on with Moonlight and Silverlight. First of all, what’s Silverlight? Check out the Silverlight [...]
Category: Computers, Fedora, Geek Love, Linux, M$, Novell |
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Tags: Miguel de Icaza, Mono, Moonlight, Novell, Silverlight
Eric Mesa | October 2, 2008
It’s time once again for a Linux distro review. This month, Antix 7.5 was included on the LXF DVD. It’s another light distro, so I will use the same metrics I used in the Lightweight Linux Throwdown. Antix is based upon Mepis which is, in turn, based upon Debian. I think at one point it [...]
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Tags: Antix, Antix 7.5, Fluxbox, LiveCD, Mepis