Nerds on Linux

I’ve been following the CRTC Internet Traffic Management Hearings, and thought the least I could do is mirror the archives for the audio of the hearings. Lets hope this leads to a better Canadian Internet.

Mirror here:
Nerdsonlinux Mirror

Original:
http://www.techd.org/crtc/

In order to get the oss4 modules to compile I had to apply this patch.

Here’s some SIP clients I’ve found that work well in linux.

Zoiper
A new one I came across just recently, works great, very easy to configure and use.

X-Lite for Linux

Has very good voice quality, and works well, but has an odd interface, which makes it harder to configure.

Ekiga

Comes preinstalled on Ubuntu Linux, and works ok, but I’ve had problems with the G711 ulaw/alaw codec with it, voice quality seems to drop quickly with this codec.

The easiest way to install VMware server, is in this guide.

Just recently found out there was a new Flash 9 plugin for linux.

I was about to give up on flash websites altogether.

Check it out

http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer9.html

I’ve always had a hard time getting Flash to work with a 64 bit system. I found the following link for a HowTo that worked perfectly for my Ubuntu system. It explains how to install a 32bit firefox with all the plugins.

Firefox 2.0, Flash and Java in AMD64 Ubuntu

Just had an issue with an Apache server on CentOS which uses SELinux, nothing major. In order to enable UserDir with SELinux you gotta set some boolean flags, here’s the article.
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/docs/html/release-notes/as-x86/#id3464301

Been using HellaNZB to download all my NZB files lately for newsgroups. It works wonders, downloads, par2 verifies and extracts. Leaves me with nothing else to do but watch/listen/run what I downloaded.

Check it out here, http://www.hellanzb.com/trac/

Can’t wait till March 15th when the new Gnome is released, Especially since my install of XGL on my system turned out to break more things then it added.

You can check it out here

http://www.gnome.org/~davyd/gnome-2-14/

Hello Everyone,

Thought I’d make this into a blog site so we could post screenshots or random jibberish, better then the random jibberish that was already here before.