Archive for the “Linux” category

Using *NIX top on OS X

by Marshall on December 25, 2007

When I use top, I generally use it to find runaway processes. The default behavior on Linux is to order the processes by the amount of CPU usage that they are taking. On OS X, this is not the case. (…)

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MythMusic, Mac OS X, and iTunes

by Marshall on November 7, 2006

Tonight I set out to sync my iTunes library up with MythTV. I have been wanting to create some playlists on the Myth box, but I find the playlist “editor” (if you can even call it that) for MythMusic just (…)

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Do People Really Think Like This ?!?

by Marshall on April 29, 2006

Some nice lady with a very political blog writes that Linux is a threat to America. Read It! Believe It! There are countless pricesless quotes there. Here is a sample of a few: Imagine if the State of the Union (…)

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MythTV: Episode III – Revenge of the Myth

by Marshall on April 16, 2006

Well, today was a looooong day of configuring stuff. I got around to purchasing a wireless keyboard and mouse as well as a S/PDIF cable to connect the DVD drive to the soundcard digitally. I embarked on what I figured (…)

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MythTv: Eposide II – Attack of the Masked Packages

by Marshall on April 14, 2006

Spent the day compiling Gnome and a few other things. I ran into a little snaffu when Mozilla wouldn’t compile. It would crap out complaining that it only supports 32 Bit ELF files. Turns out I had a mysterious x86 (…)

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MythTv: Episode 1 – The Phantom Menace

by Marshall on April 13, 2006

So I finally broke down and purchased the parts to build a MythTV box. I got a nice Antec Overture II case and an Athlon64 3000+ to power it. Assembling all of the pieces took longer then I thought as (…)

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A Plane-arium on your desktop

by Marshall on April 6, 2006

Holy crap does Stellarium look cool! It looks like Google Earth for the great abyss we call Space. The best part is that it is open source and cross-platform! Also on the open-source front is htop, a suped-up ncurses version (…)

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