So, ya know when you have a ton of media files, all the photos, videos, design files etc. and your computer turns into a maze, and you can’t find the damn exit? After smashing my head on the keyboard enough times attempting to find that one clip, I decided to go DIY and build something myself. That’s how WrangleBot was born....
"One click tag over 1.500 objects, famous european landmarks " Where do you get the landmark data from, can it do more than european? For example I was looking at Open Street Map’s API where I could get the nearest landmark to given coordinates so I could script the gps data from pictures into a landmark.
I’ll go first, I took my mom’s college textbooks which came with discs for a couple distros and failed to install RHEL before managing to get Fedora Core 4 working. The first desktop environment I used was KDE and despite trying out a few others over the years I always come back to plasma. Due to being like 12, I wanted to...
Installed an early version of Slackware on a 386 in the 90’s. Went through a couple it jobs so I ran windows for a bit until 2002. I had bought a nice laptop and it came with windows xp. Xp was so bad after windows 2000 that I had to find something else. Played with redhat and a couple other dostros then went back to Slackware and have been on it ever since.
I started running Windows 2000 in 1999 with a Technet Beta. It was fast, stable, reliable. Bought the new laptop with XP and it would hang from resume often. Then plugging in USB devices would stop being recognized and I had to clear duplicate entries out of the registry. Then my work desktop couldn’t open a second Vmware guest without swapping where it could run four guests under windows 2000. I burned one of my MS support calls asking them why it wasn’t reading the swappiness reg key only to be told they drop support for that so XP would have plenty of free ram but start swapping as soon as I tried opening the second vmware guest. I had to stick in another hdd and dedicate it to swap to get a second vmware guest just to run. But then there was the huge security hole thinly disguised as a web browser called internet explorer. Despite me running as a non-admin, file and registry permissions locked down, unnecessary services disabled, all the typical desktop security stuff just a simple mis-typing www.gogle.com into IE would result in popups and a malware infection. The second time I got infected bad enough to require a reinstall I setup a dual boot of redhat and eventually just quit using windows. Supposedly they fixed some of those issues with later service packs for XP but windows 2000 beta was faster, more secure and more stable than XP. It was just a big turd.
I’ve tried using it over the years but I never liked it because there was no information. So last night I looked at my local city and there is almost no information at all. I spent a few hours last night adding buildings and restaurants and removing incorrect items. It was actually kind of fun and therapeutic and I plan to do...
StickerPack updated to 79 distros and now includes 22 DEs, WMs, and shells! (github.com)
StickerPak now includes 22 different Desktop Environments, Window Managers, and shells along with 79 Linux distributions!...
How to Move Your Instagram Feed to Pixelfed, the Photo App That Doesn't Track Your Every Move (www.wired.com)
Pixelfed got featured on the Wired and here’s what @dansup, the author of @pixelfed, says:...
OSS media asset management (OC)
So, ya know when you have a ton of media files, all the photos, videos, design files etc. and your computer turns into a maze, and you can’t find the damn exit? After smashing my head on the keyboard enough times attempting to find that one clip, I decided to go DIY and build something myself. That’s how WrangleBot was born....
What was your first experience using Linux? How old were you? Stick around or did you go back to windows before eventually circling back to Linux?
I’ll go first, I took my mom’s college textbooks which came with discs for a couple distros and failed to install RHEL before managing to get Fedora Core 4 working. The first desktop environment I used was KDE and despite trying out a few others over the years I always come back to plasma. Due to being like 12, I wanted to...
Has anyone used or contributed to OpenStreetMap?
I’ve tried using it over the years but I never liked it because there was no information. So last night I looked at my local city and there is almost no information at all. I spent a few hours last night adding buildings and restaurants and removing incorrect items. It was actually kind of fun and therapeutic and I plan to do...
Linux hit over 3% desktop user share according to Statcounter (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Is anybody else more active here then they were on Reddit?
When I was on Reddit I felt like my opinion didn’t matter. But here it just feels more open and free.