Gnome’s file manager Nautilus does a great job of automatically thumbnailing all kinds of files including pretty much any video file. But, in a fresh Arch Linux install you still need a few gstreamer packages to enable totem-video-thumbnailer to do its job…
This is not meant to be a thorough report, just the highlights I found relevant related to its recent release. Versions Starter is weak (for netbooks) 32-bit only, OEM pre-install only Home Basic is for emerging markets (we probably won’t see it in the US much) Home Premium is what most consumers will end up with Professional is the lowest [...]
I just attended WordCamp Portland ‘09 Day 1 (Sat, Sept. 19 2009) an this is what I came away with… Session: Jason Grigsby – Speed Up Wordpress. Make Readers Happy and Your Site Green Setting expires headers really does matter in the battle for page loading speed/efficiency. SpriteMe makes CSS sprite implementation so easy there’s little excuse not [...]
Lately I’ve been loving Clonezilla for rolling out refurbed Dell workstations. It’s been really cool, boot from USB “liveCD”, clone disk to disk directly over gigabit ethernet, reboot, repeat. But after doing 10 of them, I ran into the true limitation of Clonezilla. Clonezilla relies on ntfsclone and partimage (great tools) but they share a [...]
So tweetphoto.com plans to dominate the twitter photo upload market by copying twitpic.com and adding very little to set it apart… except for the built-in tracking that reveals on the front page what I really think about day and night…
I fix computers for a living and play with them for fun – this is the stuff I get excited about.
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