Author: John
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Network Discovery from F-Droid
I was migrating wireless APs from one network to the other and working on servers and everything was reset to DHCP. All of a sudden I needed to know network information: IP Addressing, MAC addresses. I fired up my Windows 7 based tools and then while waiting fired up Linux to use NMap; however, before…
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Clang is Funded Let the Swordfighting Begin
On Open Culture I noticed that Neal Stephenson did obtain his goal of crowdsourcing $500K through Kickstarter for his first person virtual sword fighting game. Those of you who have taken courses from me might recognized Neal as the author I recommended to read prior to the course for our book discussions Stephenson and his…
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OSCON is upon us whether we will or no
And with it comes Google. For these or for any of the talks I remember back to the days when I would volunteer and then pay and get my son in. Now, a long time teacher, I just can’t come up with the funds. But when I look at a few of these, I regret…
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Grub2 Not Booting into Windows 7 After Fedora 17 Install
I have a number of dual boot machines working fine with earlier versions of Fedora. After a Fedora 17 install I get, along with at locale file error message flashing up error: invalid signature Press any key to continue And Windows won’t boot. Following the example in the bugzilla.redhat.com posting I made the change of…
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WinFF: An Open Source Windows Video Converter
WinFF is a GUI for the command line video converter, FFMPEG. It will convert most any video file that FFmpeg will convert. WinFF does multiple files in multiple formats at one time. You can for example convert mpeg’s, flv’s, and mov’s, all into avi’s all at once. WinFF is available for Windows 95, 98 ,…