Archive for the “Technology” category
47 days of music seems like not that much…
by Pete on January 27, 2012
From a history of Pitchfork that is much more readable and informative than 99% of the stuff you find on Pitchfork itself, this paragraph really captures the watershed moment that Napster was: Back when people still had to pay for (…)
Proposed Ubuntu 10.10 installer simpler, still not easy
by Pete on June 13, 2010
For the most part, I think the changes proposed for the installer in Ubuntu 10.10 look really good. Generally, I find the amount of attention that many Linux review tend to devote to the installer to be excessive. Still, it (…)
Ubuntu Update Notifier’s behavior makes me crazy
by Pete on June 11, 2010
Okay, so it’s not exactly new, but “The behavior of Ubuntu Update Notifier’s since the 9.04 release that I have not bothered figuring out how to fix for the last year drives me crazy” seemed like too long a title (…)
Got new movies, but feel a bit icky about it
by Pete on June 7, 2010
The bad news is that the last video store in town is going out of business. The good news is that they are having a going-out-of-business sale. For the low-low sum of about fifty bucks, I picked up: Tremors Hard-Boiled (…)
Clementine’s Windows port is a pretty good music player
by Pete on June 3, 2010
Clementine is a music player app that is mainly developed for Linux. Since it’s a KDE app, and I have used the Gnome desktop environment pretty exclusively of the last few years, I hadn’t really run across it before. Unbeknownst (…)
Good luck, Chuck
by Pete on June 2, 2010
Ah, Chuck Schumer. My former Senator has, unsurprisingly, found yet another excuse for some grandstanding. According to the Washington Independent: To discourage businesses from outsourcing their operator services, Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) is proposing legislation to tax businesses that set (…)
Yes, I’m still using PlayOn. Sort of.
by Pete on June 2, 2010
Ars Technica has a pretty decent write-up of PlayOn: PlayOn is a Windows-based application that allows you to watch online video content—from providers like Hulu, Amazon VOD, Comedy Central, and YouTube, to name a few—on your television via your PS3, (…)
Again with the e-books
by Pete on June 1, 2010
Reading a Wired.com article about last week’s BookExpo America, I was pretty excited to see this: Ultimately, consumers want freedom, said David Shanks, chief executive of leading publisher Penguin Group USA. “Our fondest wish is that all the devices become (…)
The great big library in the sky
by Pete on June 1, 2010
Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo posted on Saturday about the apparent death of his Kindle. Although I have been thinking on and off about getting a Kindle myself, my knee-jerk response was “See, that would never be a problem (…)
One stream to rule them all…
by Pete on May 30, 2010
A few weeks back, Adam Harvey posted on his blog about using Sweetcron, a self-hosted lifestreaming app. I should state here that I *hate* the term “lifestreaming”, but can’t think of a better replacement. The idea, however, is pretty cool—have (…)