We’ve had the Eye-Fi here for several days now. I have to admit, they have user interface and initial setup for this device down cold. I was shocked at how polished and simple they made the entire process, but kudos to them for doing so. After initial configuration, I had to “format” the card in [...]
A long time ago, Eye-Fi came to market. It wasn’t cheap at the time, but was a really neat concept. You take a picture with your camera, and voila, it’s on the web. Super cool. I’ve been doing more photography lately, and it’d be awfully convenient to have this kind of feature, so I was [...]
My friend Steve is looking to setup LDAP at work, and I’ve done it twice now, so I figured I’d throw out a simple bit on how I got it working. This is for use with SSH, Apache, and as an address book. For the purposes of this discussion, I’ll be using Fedora/CentOS package names. [...]
I’m not sure if it is a GNOME default or an Ubuntu default, but in the Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty alpha, my numeric keypad was not working. Further examination showed that it was working perfectly, as an alternate mouse movement device. That’s not nearly as useful to me. Thankfully, reading a little bit led me to [...]
Or at least, it hates me. I’ve been tasked with getting OOo 3.0.x up and running on some servers at work. Servers that don’t have X11, of course. Why? Because apparently it’s the best conversion engine around on Linux systems for reading .docx and the other newer Microsoft Office formats. OpenOffice includes a -headless switch [...]
While I realize that it’s not within everyone’s means, working on open source projects means you want to help others. Helping others includes doing at least some work to test across platforms (especially 32 vs 64 bit, where appropriate). Why isn’t there a distro out there that makes it trivially simple to set up VM’s [...]