http://www.calebscreek.com paper plates. plastic trees. assorted vagaries. Sun, 11 Dec 2011 18:05:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.calebscreek.com/2010/10/ubuntu-10-10-unity-netbook-interface-some-initial-thoughts/ http://www.calebscreek.com/2010/10/ubuntu-10-10-unity-netbook-interface-some-initial-thoughts/#comments Mon, 11 Oct 2010 17:14:49 +0000 rsheaves http://www.calebscreek.com/?p=753 So, like n million other gluttons for punishment, I queued up and pulled down the latest Ubuntu release for my netbook yesterday morning to see what all the fuss was about. Specifically, I was hoping to be impressed by the new Unity interface. Admittedly, I had installed Unity from the PPA a few weeks back, [...]]]> http://www.calebscreek.com/2010/10/ubuntu-10-10-unity-netbook-interface-some-initial-thoughts/feed/ 21 http://www.calebscreek.com/2010/05/how-to-better-audio-quality-ripping-cds-rhythmbox/ http://www.calebscreek.com/2010/05/how-to-better-audio-quality-ripping-cds-rhythmbox/#comments Tue, 04 May 2010 11:54:17 +0000 rsheaves http://www.calebscreek.com/?p=373 So, Ubuntu 10.04 LTS was released last week and it shipped with Rhythmbox 0.12.8. I thought I’d provide an update to one of the more popular posts on this site: HOW-TO: Enable MP3 ripping in Sound Juicer 2.22.0, and blather on a bit about how you shouldn’t be ripping to MP3 in the first place [...]]]> http://www.calebscreek.com/2010/05/how-to-better-audio-quality-ripping-cds-rhythmbox/feed/ 5 http://www.calebscreek.com/2008/10/moving-confluence-from-windows-to-ubuntu-linux/ http://www.calebscreek.com/2008/10/moving-confluence-from-windows-to-ubuntu-linux/#comments Sun, 19 Oct 2008 21:21:01 +0000 rsheaves http://www.calebscreek.com/blog/?p=120 Recently, my company’s corporate wiki started to sputter. It isn’t that Atlassian Confluence itself is a dog, but when you load it with over 100K+ pages, hundreds of simultaneous users, many GBs of attachments in the DB, and try to run it on Windows 2003 Std and SQL Server 2000, things get rather dicey. (Add [...]]]> http://www.calebscreek.com/2008/10/moving-confluence-from-windows-to-ubuntu-linux/feed/ 3 http://www.calebscreek.com/2008/09/howto-enable-mp3-ripping-in-sound-juicer-2220/ http://www.calebscreek.com/2008/09/howto-enable-mp3-ripping-in-sound-juicer-2220/#comments Sat, 20 Sep 2008 10:36:04 +0000 rsheaves http://www.calebscreek.com/blog/?p=16 As with most tasks in Linux involving proprietary or non-free multimedia formats, ripping to MP3 with Sound Juicer is not obvious to setup. So, here’s a quick recap of the steps I took to get things working as I wanted. YMMV. First things first: I am running Ubuntu 8.04 LTS on my PC, having done [...]]]> http://www.calebscreek.com/2008/09/howto-enable-mp3-ripping-in-sound-juicer-2220/feed/ 8