Advogato blog for sjanes71

Infinite Jest: Vocabulary I Had To Lookup (1)

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:18:36 GMT

This might be interesting. I’ll add more to this as a series. wen ~ noun very rare a common cyst of the skin; filled with fatty matter (sebum) that is secreted by a sebaceous gland that has been blocked aver ~ verb rare report or maintain He alleged that he was the victim of a […]

Opus on Elementary OS

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 06:17:20 GMT

Sorry VLC fans, looks like foobar2000 + wine is your solution. This has been the only method that was reliable. UPnP just doesn’t work. PLEX doesn’t grok Opus and GStreamer hasn’t been updated.

Raspberry Pi

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 20:18:21 GMT

Raspberry Pi Potentially the future of a Personal-Area Computing Agent (PACA) with the right packaging.

Anki

Sun, 9 Jun 2013 16:19:46 GMT

Anki Anki is a program which makes remembering things easy. Because it’s a lot more efficient than traditional study methods, you can either greatly decrease your time spent studying, or greatly increase the amount you learn.

Imagine a Company w/o a Boss?

Sun, 9 Jun 2013 16:19:46 GMT

Brian Robertson giving a 20 min presentation of Holacracy at the Do Lectures in Wales.

Once you’ve got…

Sun, 9 Jun 2013 15:18:08 GMT

Once you’ve got systems in place that support conscious flow, you can now build trust by offering others transparency, grounded projections (not commitments), and a way to influence your priorities. Instead of offering them the illusion of predictability (while you’re barely holding it all together), you engage them in your process of ruthlessly facing reality […]

TaskWarrior: Private CLI Tasking

Fri, 7 Jun 2013 17:22:43 GMT

Taskwarrior – Overview – Taskwarrior.

Personal VOIP Systems.

Fri, 7 Jun 2013 17:22:43 GMT

Asterisk custom communications – PBX, VoIP gateways, IVRs and more….

Never download …

Fri, 7 Jun 2013 17:22:43 GMT

Never download anything from PasteBin signed by “Anonymous” with your work-horse computer. No, really. Don’t. Even if you know you’re not supposed to click on it. Don’t. Once again… Don’t. http://pastebin.com/ [Where the trojan horses await you with bated breath.] (I didn’t do this, I just had to help clean up the very distracting/annoying aftermath.)

Secure Audio Communications for Groups/Podcast Studio with Mumble.

Thu, 6 Jun 2013 21:17:46 GMT

Secure Audio Communications for Groups/Podcast Studio with Mumble. Mumble. 1.2.4 Release With this new version we are introducing the revolutionary Opus audio codec, Windows 8 support and many other improvements over our last stable release (see the Mumble 1.2.4 wiki page for more information). Opus is now the primary audio codec of choice for Mumble.