Category Archives: Open Source

Installing FOG on Ubuntu 8.10

Installation tutorial for FOG project open source computer cloning/Imaging solution on Ubuntu 8.10. FOG includes unicast/multicast cloning, memory testing, virus scanning, as well as a client side service used to change the computer’s hostname. Music: Nine Inch Nails – Ghosts … Continue reading

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Trash Powered Honda – DIY – www.gekgasifier.com

Honda powered by waste biomass. The ALL Power Labs team installs a biomass gasification system – based on their Open Source Gasifier Experimenter’s Kit – into the trunk of a Honda. The Honda now runs on 100% waste biomass – … Continue reading

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MusicBox: Mapping and visualizing music collections

Watch in HD! Source: thesis.flyingpudding.com For her thesis at MIT, a student developed some interesting software for visualizing music collections: MusicBox. —————————————- REPLY FROM ANITA, on her blog (12/17/2008): ** Is the software available? ** No. I know that sucks, … Continue reading

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Chrome Beveled Text Effect

Outcome: monsoonami.deviantart.com Layer Effects script: registry.gimp.org G’MIC plug-in: registry.gimp.org How to install them: www.youtube.com GIMP is an open-source (free) image editing program with many of the same features as Adobe Photoshop. www.gimp.org This video was recorded and edited with the … Continue reading

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New clouds in FlightGear 2.0

New clouds in FlightGear 2 the free open source flight simulator. Just a quick take-off and landing from San Francisco International Airport. This is version 2.0 from code in CVS

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5 Fun Things in Fedora 12 Part 2

View Part 1: www.youtube.com Mo shows off five fun things in Fedora 12, including digital painting with a tablet, gaming with an open source MMORPG, taking notes, even picking out color schemes and downloading and organizing movies. Try it yourself … Continue reading

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Non-relational data persistence in Java using MongoDB

Kristina Chodorow, a software engineer at MongoDB, talks about non-relational data persistence in Java using MongoDB, a high-performance, open source, schema-free document-oriented database. This presentation was hosted by The San Francisco Java User Group (www.sfjava.org at Google in San Francisco, … Continue reading

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Jailbreaking, VirtualBox PHP GUIs, bandwidth throttles and python streaming scripts – Hak5

Rounding out season 7 Darren and Shannon meetup to take on iOS 4 jailbreaking, followed by a roundabout way to stream media anywhere online using some open source python scripts. Toss in a little VirtualBox PHP front-ends and Untangle tweaks … Continue reading

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Ampache, Boxee and Wireless Virtual Machines – Hak5

Darren checks out Ampache, a powerful open source streaming media solution perfect for your Linux home server. Jason answers your Boxee questions and Shannon joins the round table for a discussion on jailbreaking and USB wireless adapters for virtual machines.

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Website Stress Testing using JMeter

www.beardygeek.com This video shows you how to use JMeter to stress test your website or web application. JMeter is free and open source software, which you can download from http

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