Posts Tagged “ubuntu” Podcast: Play in new window | Download Tonight’s show is a pleasant mix of fun tech and wonderful caffeinated stories. We have Coffee in film, a hilariously SFW view of the adult industry and Sony… well being sony. Netflix, Nintendo and a Baby link also show up Tags: adult films, baby link, Coffee, Google TV, Netflix, photoshop, podcasts, Porn, Robots, salmon, sony, ubuntu
I have a wonderful little setup at home, a Ubuntu Media Server running Boxee in the basement, makes the experience watching tv a wonderful thing. Views all my movies, TV online and a ton of fun other little features. But one thing was missing. My Google TV was cut off from the Pack, I couldn’t watch my movies in the living room that were on the Media Server in the basement, not very “Home of the Future”. So I set out trying to find the right extra component to throw into the mix in the Lair to make the media experience in the rest of the house that much sweeter. That last missing piece is MiniDLNA! That last missing piece is a lightweight dlna server that runs in the background making it all work. Currently watching Star Wars with my kids! And here is how you do it. The Files are on Sourceforge
If you follow me on Twitter or Facebook you have probably noticed a constant slew of posts referring to a “Kiosk” and attempting to beat Linux into submission for work. Fear not I’ll be putting a complete guide up after I get everything done to my liking. The idea behind this was that our department wanted to put Internet and Email kiosks into the lobby to allow the students who want to check facebook, twitter, email, class scheduling, or any number of other non design related things. Basically its supposed to reduce the load on the design capable machine leaving them free for students to do High end work. Also the department has next to no budget to make this happen, so on the cheap was the order of business. The Project thus far has been frustrating for several reasons, first off I’m using 7 year old machines, which are long out of warranty. So finding working machines to use was step one, getting to software installed and locked down was step two, three was transferring that one perfect image onto multiple machines at once, and lastly i had the create signage to let student know what they were using. Honestly I thought the last part would be the least frustrating of all of the steps. The last step before i posted the signs was a quick spell check. I ran the documentation through Adobe Illustrator’s spell checker… and received this error message…
Now what am I supposed to do with THAT? You just have to laugh. More will follow in this vein as i describe the setup one needs to bring to the table to create your very own Internet kiosk, suitable for young children, grandparents, students, teachers ect. Just wanted to share a laugh. Podcast: Play in new window | Download Today’s Show: Coffee, Drugs, Watches, Plush Toys, Holidays, Visual Styles, Ubuntu
—- Sponsored by GoToMeeting, Also Try GoDaddy Code Blu84 for 10% off —- This episode is what happens when you are stuck writing, producing and otherwise cramming content for this long. I love what do and I can only hope the episodes have been worth the fun. I’m starting to hone my workflow even more and I might just do a Making of The CaffiNation shortly. Let me know what anyone thinks of that. Might be another live show in the works too. Testing the waters. Speaking of waters I have been inundated with questions about how to make better coffee, what type of machine to buy ect. On today’s show i have a couple different tips for these questions, and I’ll be adding my own thoughts in as we go through them. I might also try my hand at writing a bit of a how to guide in the future, but not sure about it yet. A Long show with a ton of content and a bit of gab in between. Enjoy the Episode!
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LAMP is the Way to Go I recently had a server die on me at my day job and I needed to choose a new os for it. After consulting twitter. I was suggested by Knightwise that I should go with a LAMP install of Ubuntu. LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, Mysql, and Php. All of the elements I needed in one spiffy package. I had never done one of these before so I decided to give it a shot. Let me tell you this install when blindingly quick. It took longer to download and burn than it did to have a working web server again. With less than an hour of total downtime, including swapping video cards, and burning an ISO. Both of those were done at the same time. Thanks So much to Sir Knightwise for that suggestion. I have run linux servers for a while but i never tried the Lamp install. Quick and painless let me tell you. |
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