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Jun 15

South East Linux Fest 2010

By linc Books, F/OSS, Friends, Linux, S.E.L.F., TLLTS No Comments »

South East Linux Fest

Wow, what a trip. Allan and I drove to SC from my place in PA in the middle of the night, which took up 10 hours. It was a nice drive compared to last year where it was foggy and rainy the whole ride there.

The conference was great. It was 2 days long, and, contrary to what I heard from some people, I thought it was just right. During the talks/conferences there was hardly anyone in the hallways. This tells me that there was something interesting there for everyone. I, however, only got to see Dann’s talk about the linux boot process. It was quite good I thought. The only real downside there was the vendor/hallway track, which was spread out a little too much.

Mordancy made us some SELF ’10 TLLTS shirts, which turned out great and were a hit. We do have some left as well and will be announcing how you can get yours on the show. Gorkon brought cookies and chex mix which were also greatly appreciated. And, of course, there were the books by Prentice Hall (Pearson Ed), APress and the wickedly cool Neuros Link and Nexus One we had to give away. I had a great time talking to all of you who stopped at the booth and I even got the chance to install Linux on a visitors laptop! I also enjoyed visiting with the other vendors and dot org booths there. I still really enjoy being a part of this community. You all are a bunch of great folks!

Probably the best “conference track” there was one tat was totally unannounced and impromptu. On Sunday night, after all was quiet and we were relaxed, Dann, Allan and I had time for a good executive TLLTS meeting. It was really nice to go over a lot of TechShow information, ideas, problems and solutions, face to face, so we could all get on the same page. We are coming up on our second season and we have some interesting things in store.

All in all I had a great time, which was exactly what I expected. I cannot wait for OLF this year nor can I wait for SELF next year. They just keep getting better and better!

Jun 02

TLLTS on Mint 9

By linc Linux Mint, TLLTS No Comments »

tllts on mint 9

I just found out from a friend of mine that there is a link to TLLTS on the “News” section of firefox in the default install of Linux Mint 9! Sweet! Check out the pic at http://lincgeek.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/mint9-firefox.png.

Addendum: Apparently there is quite some talk about TLLTS on the Mint Forums as well! http://linuxmint.com/planet/TLLTS_%28podcast%29/.

Jan 18

Updates

By linc BashPodder, Customer Service, FreeLinuxBox, Internet, LinuxPlanet, System Administration, TLLTS No Comments »

Updates, updates everywhere. I pushed a bunch of updates to FreeLinuxBox.org, my Blog, LinuxPlanet Casts and Blogs, LinuxForChristians, TLLTS Planet and the Lincware forums. Everything looks ok right now, but please let me know if you see anything strange happening (or not happening as the case may be). Thanks and you may now return to your previously scheduled rss feed.

Sep 27

OLF 2009

By linc Books, Friends, Linux, Ohio Linux Fest, TLLTS 1 Comment »

Wow! What a weekend!

We had a great time again this year, no surprise. It’s always great to be able to hang out with all your friends and all you linux folk and TechShow listeners are my friends!

My thoughts are still a bit disjointed from the weekend so here are some random notes about OLF this year:

Special thanks to Richard Querin and Mordancy for the new logo and t-shirts. They were fan-freaking-tastic! We took small donations in exchange for a TLLTS t-shirt this year and that provided us with enough money to pay some of the booth and bandwidth fees and get a good head start on getting some more shirts for next year’s festivities.

Prentice Hall, Neuros Tech, Oreilly and APress deserve BIG thank you’s for once again sponsoring us with some excellent giveaways for our free raffle this year.

This weekend was the start if our 7th broadcast year on the TechShow and I am still consistently amazed when someone walks up to me, recognizes me and tells me they listen to the show!

I saw Ubuntu’s netbook remix v 9.10 boot from bios to full desktop in 4 seconds while I was there. Astounding!

Oracle has this python sql interface that they are working on that is probably one of the coolest things, as a developer, that I have seen in a long time. It’s like stuffing bash into the sql command line. Nifty things like colored columned table listings, easy piping from sql command line to bash commands and files. This was some seriously cool stuff. I can’t wait for them to get it working with not only orcacle but mysql and postgres too!

This year was definitely the year of the netbook. It seems like everyone had one, they were all constantly using them, they all loved their netbook and anyone who didn’t yet have one was dying to get one. I must have seen hundreds of them this weekend and they were all running Linux except one.

The one netbook that wasn’t running Linux was at the booth right next to ours. They were the guys from Haiku, the new BeOS implementation. This is some seriously neat stuff and these guys are to be commended. While not ready for primetime just yet, they are going that direction full force and have some really slick stuff going in their favor. This OS is FAST man. I saw an average netbook doing some AMAZING video rendering feats like playing high def movies while running 3D video demos at 700fps and the thing wasn’t even breaking a sweat. There was another old thinkpad laptop playing 5 different videos at the same time with no lag whatsoever. I Bet it won’t Be long Before this OS has the full attention of, at least, some video processing nuts! You can bet I’ll be keeping an eye on this one.

There are a few things I will do differently next year, mostly with my time management, like getting there a day earlier, but I had a great time. If you haven’t been to one yet, make sure you go because you are missing out. Put it on your calendar for next year. I’ll see ya there!

Aug 19

New Planet TLLTS

By linc TLLTS No Comments »

As previously mentioned, the Planet TLLTS website at http://tllts.org/planet is now up. Please adjust your rss feeds settings if necessary.

Aug 13

Get your logo gear now!

By linc FreeLinuxBox, LinuxPlanet, TLLTS No Comments »

With the help of RFQuerin, the internet’s own Open Source graphics master, I have updated the logo merchandise stores for The Linux Link Tech Show, Free Linux Box, and Linux Planet. It’s all great stuff so check them out and support a project by flying it’s colors on a T-shirt or maybe even a coffee mug. We don’t make a dime off this stuff, strictly publicity and it’s real nice to see someone at a conference wearing a T with a logo of a project your are involved with too!

http://cafepress.com/tllts
http://cafepress.com/freelinuxbox
http://cafepress.com/linuxplanetorg

Aug 10

TLLTS Planet Feed Changing

By linc TLLTS No Comments »

Here’s your notice. If you subscribe to the TLLTS Planet feed, I will be shortly changing the software from it’s current Planet Planet to WordPress (a la LinuxPlanet) feed aggregator. This will help ease some server migrations here at the house. Sorry for any inconvenience.

Jul 16

Donations

By linc FreeLinuxBox, Home Life, LinuxPlanet, TLLTS No Comments »

A few people have asked about a way to make a donation to help with the costs here on any of the lincgeek.org sites (tllts.org, linuxforchristians.org, linuxplanet.org, freelinuxbox.org, etc). Since it’s time to re-up for another years worth of bandwidth and *I’m broke* I figured it’d be as good a time as any to put up a paypal donation button. You can find it at http://lincgeek.org. If you can see fit to help out at all, you get my eternal thanks and a promise for me to keep things going on my end

Dec 30

Should auld acquaintance be forgot

By linc Books, Home Life, TLLTS No Comments »

Time for some catchup again I think. I had a great Christmas, and I hope the same for you all. Invariably, people want to know “whatcha got”, so here ’tis:
I got a radio/cdplayer. I had been wanting a radio for the house for some time now. Now I just need to find a place in the house with some decent radio reception
I got some of my nasty little cigars (Black-n-Mild Fast-Breaks). Something I can smoke fast enough to not freeze to death out on the porch in the cold.
My wife bought me the Scott Sigler books I wanted, “Infected” and “Contagious”. I also have received some review books lately from APress, Automating Unix and Linux System Administration, Pro Ubuntu Server Administration and Beginning Portable Sell Scripting. These looks like fantastic books, as all the APress books are. I just need a little time to peel through them.

During the Christmas break I finally got a chance to finish Daniel X Alien Hunter, which I had mentioned previously. Indeed, the illustrations and artwork are fantastic, however, the story line is quite disjointed. It is fragmented so much that in most of the cells there is a narrative box which serves to fill you in on the story a little more so you don’t get lost from frame to frame Perhaps I am being too harsh. Then again, maybe not. I’d love to hear from anyone else that read it to see their opinion though.

That brings me to the New Year celebration:
We are bring in the new year with the TehShow, so do everyone a favor and get your booze on and join us on IRC. Stay home and stay safe (no drinking and driving anywhere). Personally, I am making my wife Sex On The Beach and Cosmo’s, and I am having Wild Turkey and Honey, Scotch and Coke, probably some Apricot Brandy, and maybe a little hillbilly Boonesfarm to wash it down. Then when I am good and warm, I’ll be talking on the show
I am sure some of you remember that I am not a beer drinker. Dann and Pat usually take care of that!
Unfortunately I have to work the 31st, so I can’t make an early start of it. Remember, 31st at 8:30pm EST at http://tllts.org.

Dec 10