http://blog.flexion.org Bad grammar and typos for total strangers Sat, 12 Apr 2008 15:19:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I am about to undertake a long overdue project my wife has been requesting. Unusually, this is a project I am actually going to enjoy :-) We have a number of videos from family holidays and events that my wife wants converting to DVD. So I thought I would record progress ... http://blog.flexion.org/index.php/2008/04/11/home-brew-dvd-part-1/ We have a reasonable number of Debian servers at work and as a result I ssh into servers about as many times as I visit Google ;-) I have been using Profiles in gnome-terminal to manage my ssh connections, which is fine but requires I already have a terminal open ... http://blog.flexion.org/index.php/2008/02/26/sshmenu-ssh-connection-management/ I am about to embark on a mini project at home to archive some old family VHS tapes to DVD. To that end I have been looking for a simple video capture application, so that I can capture to an uncompressed .avi file which I can then edit and ... http://blog.flexion.org/index.php/2008/02/14/wxcam-simple-video-capture/ AIR (Automated Image and Restore) is a GUI front-end to dd/dcfldd designed for easily creating forensic bit images. Or, a nice way to let the guys at work who like GUIs make Debian boot install floppies (don't ask) easily. Ubuntu 7.10 doesn't have a package for AIR, but AIR does ... http://blog.flexion.org/index.php/2008/02/12/get-some-air/ gLabels, as packaged in the Ubuntu repositories, has not worked properly for some time. The accuracy of printing was way out making gLabels pretty a non-starter unless you went to the hassle of manually re-aligning every label on a page to account for the inaccuracies. However, I have been patitently waiting ... http://blog.flexion.org/index.php/2008/01/30/glabels-221/ I spend all day sat in front of a Ubuntu workstation, then I come home and try and spend all night doing the same. Frankly, I find Ubuntu's default brown and orange desktop theme a bit wearing on the eyes. Unlike some, I shant rant about it or lobby the ... http://blog.flexion.org/index.php/2008/01/23/please-no-more-brown/ I have been meaning to setup a weblog client for a while now. I have tested a couple of weblogs clients and have settled on BloGTK. It has a simple user interface but comprehensive features, although I did need to define a few Custom Tags before the editor supported all the ... http://blog.flexion.org/index.php/2008/01/11/blogtk-a-weblog-client-for-linux/ When I setup the mail server at work I picked Zimbra, it's great. Today Zimbra just got a bit better when I found Zindus. Zindus is open-source software and runs on all Thunderbird platforms including Windows, Mac OSX and Linux. Zindus can sync your contacts between Zimbra and Thunderbird. It syncs ... http://blog.flexion.org/index.php/2008/01/10/zindus-contact-sync-for-thunderbird-and-zimbra/ For the longest time I have been meaning to setup a shared calendar for my wife I and to use. You see, like most men I have no idea when and where I am supposed to be. This is because my wifes keep all this information in her filofax and ... http://blog.flexion.org/index.php/2008/01/09/simple-ical-server/ My website has had a change of clothes today, ain't it purdy? I am now using the Mandingo theme. It is available in 7 colour schemes, has a number of configurable options and is compatible with Wordpress 2.3 :-) http://blog.flexion.org/index.php/2007/09/24/mandingo/