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If you want to install the latest version of Android 2.2 Froyo on a G1, you have to use a cooked ROM. I'm using Cyanogen Mod 6, and it w...

Went skiing with Dan and Jon in Taos, NM on February 12-13, 2010. Our trip was so short, we didn't get to see much of the town. It was ...

I built a home made Tivo out of a computer running MythBuntu (a flavor of MythTV ). It installs very easily and quickly if you buy decently...

No more inter-generational theft! I recently read about this . And I felt like I had to respond to my esteemed Senator. Here's what I ...

Here are some tips and tricks I have learned using T-Mobile Using Google Voice as your cellphone voicemail service A new feature of GV is yo...

My printer is connected to a Linux / Ubuntu computer running CUPS, which is software to offer a printer to other computers for easy setup. I...

So this is my 3rd post on how crappy Maxent, Sampo, and Regent's televisions and their customer service is. A couple of months after r...

I have all of my music on my media server, and it is being shared by Firefly and Avahi so I can easily listen to it on any computer with Ryt...

I just put a Pioneer DEH-P7100BT stereo in my car. It is their top of the line single din stereo with integrated Bluetooth and iPod control...

I've had this sitting in my drafts for several years now and forgot about it - On Saturday, February 11, 2006, St. Rose of Lima Cathol...

On a relatively level and firm surface, block the rear wheels, put on the parking brake, put it in gear, and break the front lug nuts loose....

So I realized my previous post on installing a lift kit on a 2001 Nissan Pathfinder didn't get into the nuts and bolts on how to do this...

Note: if you are really interested in this, you may want to bookmark it and come back in a week or 2 as I finish the install and flesh it ou...

I used to prefer ASUS motherboards price permitting, and I'd generally only buy their graphics cards. They seemed to make more reliable ...

SANE is scanning software for Linux. It stands for Scanning Access Now Easy. It can act as a server with Linux package (x)inetd, so a comput...

Here are some tweaks I made to my MythBuntu install, which is a distribution of MythTV MythTV is similar to TiVo, but it is free to use, ...

If the X server (graphical and video display) doesn't automatically configure on your Ubuntu distro, you have my sympathies. VESA is the...

My NSLU2 Unslung install quit booting for the 2nd time. Initially several hours of research, trial, and error, got the Slug recognizing the ...

This remains for historical reasons only __________________________________________ After several years of half-hearted attempts to sell my ...

Summarized from ConConejo's post at HuffPost By far right wing Neo-Con Rep fiat... Torture must now be called "enhanced interrogati...