Thursday, July 17, 2003

Red Hat lets people try new Linux core Red Hat has made good on a promise to let people try out Linus Torvalds' test version of the new 2.6 kernel, or heart, of Linux. The Linux seller said Monday that it would release 2.6.0-test1 RPM (Red Hat Package Manager) update files.  [CNET News.com] 6:32:59 PM

Chris Lydon Web Studio:"The studio shall fit in a single portable case (under-the-seat maximum size). It should contain everything needed. Power supplies and cabling must be organized and labelled so that Chris himself can set it up and break it down again in just a few minutes. " This is an interesting bit giving details on how to create a portable audio studio that can create high qualty MP3's for webcasting. I see some potential here for using a similar setup to record lectures in class. 11:01:26 AM

Setting up Samba over SSH Tunnel mini-HOWTO:"Setting up Samba over SSH Tunnel mini-HOWTO" 10:49:28 AM

Cable Boxes With DVD, MP3, Networking Cable Boxes With DVD, MP3, Networking Posted by simoniker on Thursday July 17, @07:39AM from the geek-toy-beckons dept. Bruha writes "It appears that Charter Communications cable division is in the first phase of rolling out a new home media center-style cable box. The article on CNN describes the box with a 80 Gig hard drive, dual tuners (With HDTV), DVD, and WiFi networking capability to allow music to be transferred to the unit along with pictures from your PC. Copyright protection prevents recordings from being copied to the PC, and Charter has ordered 100,000 of these boxes." We covered a preliminary announcement of this box, which uses the Linux-based Moxi software, last year. [Slashdot] 10:41:01 AM

Got Trackback?. In theory this weblog post has Trackback enabled. If you have a blogging tool that supports Trackback, please give it a whirl. (Ping it.) Praise Murphy! PS: It's not working. Jake is going to fix some stuff. Still diggin! PPS: Now Jake says it works, and sho nuf it does. Hehaw. [Backend.UserLand.Com] 10:17:14 AM