Monthly Archives: October 2007

Things They Don’t Teach You In Tip-Of-The-Day: Environment Variables in GNOME

October 22, 2007 – 10:36 am

Ubuntu has been incredibly successful in large part thanks to its ease of use and great packaging. However, one thing they don’t teach you is how to force your GNOME session to export environment variables to processes. When a process is launched from a terminal, you set these environment variables through .bash_profile, .bashrc, [...]

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Slides from WPLUG MythTV Talk

October 20, 2007 – 5:28 pm

Today I gave a talk to WPLUG on MythTV. I think it ended up going pretty well and it was quite well attended. Most people seemed interested in seeing what they could do with scavenging some computers and trying to get started with MythTV on the cheap. That’s pretty easy if you [...]

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DPKG eats your bandwidth and rots your hard drive — a plea for incremental packages

October 9, 2007 – 11:02 am

Most modern packaged based operating systems have a facility for easily allowing remote systems to pull down updates. In the Windows world this is primarily used for distributing bug fixes and security patches through the Windows Update system, although major service packs may introduce new features. In Linux, depending on distribution and configuration, the [...]

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