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I'm Michael Koby, and I love technology. I'm also a programmer, currently doing Ruby on Rails development for a small Houston startup. Here I talk about technology, programming, politics, movies, music, and anything else I feel I need to talk about. If you would like to know more, you can check out the About page.Popular Series
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Still (Mostly) in Linux…
Overall though, I love my Linux install and I hate having to log into Windows to do stuff for work. Maybe I’ll just turn off Beryl when I work, but then I start to miss my cube and 3D effects. Oh well, guess I will just have to wait for working drivers on that front. Continue reading
What OS do You Use?
The Web Worker Daily has a nice article on operating systems and the author asks the readers what operating system they use. Astonishing enough, there is a lot of Mac and Linux users. I find this kind of shocking that … Continue reading
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Ubuntu Edgy with Xorg 7.2
I spent some time this weekend getting Ubuntu Linux installed on my home PC. I partitioned off 10 gigabytes of space for the install using Partition Magic and then ran the Ubuntu install off of the downloadable live CD. I … Continue reading
Mp3s & UltraID3Lib
As I started listening to my music this morning, I notice something odd in MediaMonkey. My album art was all kinds of messed up. I am not totally sure how this happened, but my album art was not right. Fortunately, … Continue reading
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Using WebApps and U3 to Keep Your Hard Drive Clean
We are all guilty of it. Every single one of us (myself included) have installed unnecessary applications onto our computers. We install a program, use it once, and then forget about it until we get low on that precious hard drive space. It is at the point that we receive that low drive space warning that we open up the Add/Remove Applications Control Panel applet in Windows and begin purging those programs we do not use anymore. Those one off deals that we only needed that one time, to do that one thing. We even eventually reinstall our computers from the base operating system on up so that we can have a fresh start, no more unneeded applications. So this week, we are going to look at utilizing two methods to help keep those hard drives clean and those installed programs down to a minimum.
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Children and Technology
Today, kids have it easy. All the technology that we only dreamed about is at their fingertips. They can watch almost any television show they want at the press of a button, they get music on devices that don’t ruin … Continue reading →