Past Posts

In The Shop: storytlr

Image via CrunchBase

XBMC was a bust for me to use.  It simply had too many issues with configuring my graphics for very little payback.  I continue to use my HPMediaVault with extra software.

This week I am installing Fedora 12 and Storytlr In The Shop.

From the Storytlr Site:

Storytlr is an open source lifestreaming and [...]

Knox Computer Programming Teams Among Best in Region

6th and 7th at site, good for 40th and 57th in 5-state area

October 26, 2009

Two Knox College computer programming teams finished among the top teams in the region, in the ACM Intercollegiate Programming Competition held Saturday, October 24 at the University of Illinois-Springfield. In the annual competition sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery, teams had five hours [...]

Getting Your Wireless Network Up to Speed

The NY Times discusses the issues, solutions, and equipment in the area of wirless home networking.  If you didn’t know that powerline networking is working on Gigabit speeds or where you might wish to deploy it check out the full article at http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/13/technology/personaltech/13basics.html.

A reminder that for so many of the current uses, a wired network [...]

Maker Faire

An amazing list of project at Maker Faire where I went to volunteer last weekend.  I had a great time and worked hard.  I have a number of stories to tell from the faire and pix to upload and they will all come in a rush over the next week.  I would have been sooner, [...]

Bargain hunters make Vizio LCDs most popular in US — for now

Reprinted from Engadget.com

In these difficult times people are looking to buy what’s cheap, a state of mind that Vizio’s iSuppli’s latest press release isn’t ashamed to apply, lauding the company’s status as the current most popular brand of LCD television in these United States. It owned [...]

The Best Ubuntu video editors

http://icehot.wordpress.com/2009/01/19/the-best-ubuntu-video-editors/ Check out this post to find out details on a group of video editors, while they have instructions for loading with Ubuntu, they are available on multiple distros and some even multiple platforms.

Joomla Developer’s Toolbox

Joomla Developer’s Toolbox
from Smashing Magazine by Steven Snell

By Steven Snell

Joomla is a popular free and open-source content management system (CMS) that can be used to power all kinds of websites. After we published developer’s toolboxes for a variety of other CMS’, many readers requested a collection of resources for Joomla users and developers, so here [...]