In my attempt to keep up on podcasts I finally gave up with Miro and found a great shell script called BashPodder. This is a very simple script that keeps all of your podcasts up to date with very little effort. It was missing a few features that I wanted, so I updated the script and am now releasing it to the general public under the GPL. Continue Reading »
Leopard Network Speed
Leopard seems to have a problem when you have more than two DNS servers set. As soon as I added a third DNS server to the list all connections nearly dropped out. It would take over five seconds to load any page.
The fix to this problem is to use only two DNS servers. I choose OpenDNS as their servers are reliable. I don’t like the ads they put on the pages when you type a domain wrong, but the benefits are good enough to look over this issue.
Rebuttle: What Linux can do that Windows and OS X can’t
Matthew Helmke recently posted and article entitled What is the coolest thing you can do using Linux that you can’t do with Windows or on a Mac? This is chalked full of fallacies that are quite common in the Linux advocacy world. I am going to take a look at each one of these items and explain what I think about them. Continue Reading »
Software I use
While listening to Windows Weekly a while back I heard about a neat web site that tracks what software you use and for how long called Wakoopa. You install a tiny piece of software and it tracks quite a bit of information about your software habits.
The only thing that kind of bugs me about this service is the privacy in it. They have complete control over all of the applications I use. In my opinion the benefits out weigh these concerns. Each person should think about these risks before installing any sort of software of this sort.
The list of my top ten used software is not surprising to me. This list pretty much sums up my daily usage of software. I’ve switched away from iTunes due to it being bloated. Other than that the list is very accurate in my software usage today.
