Bought my signifigant other a Galaxy Tablet for an upcoming trip and decided to get her up and running with WiFi tethering. I tether my laptops to my Droid’s frequently and love it. Long story short, it wasn’t as straight forward as I had hoped. After several hours of frustrating work trying to get a … Read more
Just dropping a quick post as a time stamp. I woke up this morning to an alert on my Nexus S indicating that Gingerbread 2.3.4 was available. I haven’t had anytime to dig in or read change logs yet, but I did notice that Gtalk now has front facing camera / video support. ***Update*** Looks … Read more
It has been way too long since my last post. In my spare time, along with two other partners, I run a virtualization datacenter in a collocation facility. In addition to generating income, it also serves as an excellent test lab for open source products. It is my conviction that the small business market can seriously benefit … Read more
Being that it is my job and my nature to keep systems running, I generally don’t upgrade OS’ quickly. Doing so introduces change which in turn breaks things. After performing an install of the latest version of Ubuntu Netbook 10.10 I found the performance to quite poor. After a quick Google search I found that … Read more
For those that have never used crontab, it can be a daunting task to schedule a simple script. As with all things, I highly recommend that you learn the meanings of CLI programs and their usage etcetera. With that said, I wanted to check my crontab job against a generator of sorts just to be … Read more
This week I joined the Ubuntu LoCo Florida Team and participated in last night’s team meeting (via IRC). Seems like a great group of people AND an excellent way to get more involved with Ubuntu (and really any Linux). In addition to the IRC meetings, there are scheduled meetups to perform various activities such as … Read more
Just wrapped up another Ubuntu LoCo meeting. The meetings are fun, informative, and full of ideas. I am still truly amazed by the community efforts in open source project and Ubuntu is no exception. You can join your LoCo anytime or idle in ours on Freenode @ #ubuntu-us-fl. –himuraken
I am still buzzing with joy over my recent Android phone purchase. The Android Marketplace has proven very useful, I have found many useful apps and wanted to share a few worth trying out. 1. Listen – This Google app is a must have if you listen to podcasts. Forget the old days of downloading … Read more