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Archive for March 2006

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March 6th, 2006

Geeky Fun: Xandros Linux.

My regular readers are probably used to me switching distros more often than most people change their underware. Without knowing how often the average person changes his or her underware it’s hard to say how accurate that thought it, but yeah - I change distros a lot. My recent foray with Slackware went OK, but […]

By Jon -- 9 comments

March 2nd, 2006

Geeky Fun: Logging On To Darkstar

I bought a copy of Linux Format yesterday because it had this overflowing DVD of goodies with it. I guess it should have since it cost me $22 (Cdn), but something about shiny CD/DVDs attracts me. For some reason, software on a nice shiny disc just seems more complete and more reliable than something I’ve […]

By Jon -- 3 comments

March 1st, 2006

Geeky Fun: GNU/Linux Video Editor Roundup.

I’ve spent the last four days trying to figure out how to crunch a 250MB AVI file down into something more cross-platform friendly (the JaK Attack! #5). My mission was to either get it under 100MB so I could post it on You Tube, or get it into a more common format like MPEG or […]

By Jon -- 1 comment

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