Ever Wondered Who Does What in Movies?

I sure as hell did.  That is, until I read this post from the FreshDV site, now I know what “best boy” and “key grip” are, and so can you.

Enjoy,

iMB

Want to Playback DVD’s on SLED?

Come on, you know you do.  It’s the last thing besides Call of Duty 2 that keeps even a single instance of Windows anywhere near most real techies.

With this article, you’ll know how to hack OpenSUSE 10.x, which translates pretty neatly into hacking SLED 10, including some information that might get you in trouble with the various bloodsucking, erm, umm, legal types.

Read at your own risk, and enjoy that DVD, hmm?

RossB

Website Bans FFox Users, Lashes out at Mozilla Corp.

I won’t post the guys site, it’s nothing that I would be going to anyway, but you can read about it without viewing the site or driving this idiot’s hits up.  Besides, I can’t visit the site, I use Adblock and Firefox and refuse to load IE of any version for any reason.

The whole deal is that advertisers have GOT to understand that I and many others will refuse to visit sites with those damned pop-up ads that obscure part of the screen, or the ones that blink and move, or at the very WORST the ones that have music or sound in them.  Just the other day I hit a particular site with a non-Adblocked browser and some pop goop blasted out of my speakers (which had been turned up, my fault, for a fragfest on COD2) and scared the crap out of me and the poor dog, snoozing nearby.

You know, like the line from Field of Dreams “If you build it, they will come”, site owners need to understand that “If you build it crappily, with annoying ads that try to wring every bit of concentration out of your visitors, they’ll quickly find other sites to visit”.

Nuff said.

RossB

Flickr Photosets are up

One of the more popular things I’ve done in classes and presentations is to sprinkle in Linux-related wallpaper and graphics, so I’ve put a few photosets on Flickr for everyone to grab what they want.

Note:  If you have a copyright to one of the images, be a good soul and let me know, so I can remove it.

RossB

Download YouTube videos from the CLI

Article about how to use a python script to get youtube videos downloaded from just about any platform