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Archive for April, 2008

Well having come from Slackware I’d obviously been enjoying the ease of installation with Synaptic (an apt-get frontend) too much and the gods of computing were watching my karma count(!) … the simple “update-manager” method of upgrading promised much and didn’t really deliver anything other than a rushed lesson in apt-get, dpkg, aptitude and the [...]

14 Apr, 2008

amateur video editing on linux (ubuntu)

Posted by: admin In: linux| software| video

I’m trying to edit a small clip from a larger program, add titling and post to YouTube. The clip is a section of TV program called Best of Friends and shows a pottery challenge throwing a pot on the potters wheel at Barefoot Ceramics.
Anyway, FOSS linux apps I’m auditioning (at least I think they’re all [...]

Well I was browsing digg as usual when I came across a link for “the pink patch“, curious fellow that I am I wondered what it was.
Turns out that the latest way to extract money from teen girls low self-esteem is to sell “diet patches”, think of them like nicotine patches but for people with [...]



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