The many faces of Linux and the humble EEE

Posted by JeffC Published in Blues, General, Technology

This post is mostly in response to all of the people I see dumping on the EEE or worse, using the EEE to dump on Linux. You see Windows zealots flaming it because you can’t play game X on it. You see some flaming it because it comes with Xandros; others use it to complain [...]

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Oct

Informal status update

Posted by JeffC Published in DVD Metabase, EZRip, Technology, VOD

Howdy, this is the author of DVD-DB and EZRip. I can assure you that I am not MIA, I have not been eaten by a pack of dogs, just busy. You know how it is. Also have been fighting a number of irritating bugs in EZRip not to mention the idiocy of (in a weak [...]

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Oct

The difference between “Don’t wanna” and “Can’t”

Posted by JeffC Published in Blues, Technology

Here is a real-world example of something Windows will never do do that Linux *encourages*: rebuilding your kernel to support new hardware. You can do this on Linux; you may not want to but it is really nice knowing that you can. Microsoft will never ever allow this so opting with Linux here is [...]

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