… But I’ve been on this train for less than 10 minutes and I’ve already spotted about 20 things that make this a much more pleasant experience than flying.
Nine Unexpected Benefits of Trains | EcoGeek
Stolen From: Trains: 9 Reasons Why Trains Are Better Than Planes
Only in *NIX could you order pizzas from Domino’s Pizza with any topping, any size, any crust using only the command line!
Too funny. I’m going to have to remember this prank …
"He constantly interrupts me during my lessons trying to make valid points that are somewhere between "WTF?" and "OMG YOU ARE NOT USING TEH DEBIAN!"…
This is a wonderful browser based on Firefox. I’ve been using the beta for about two months now, and I can’t go back 
Notice that I’ve been posting on my blog a lot more lately? Flock makes it easy, with its integrated media bar, web clipboard and blog editor.
Go try it out!
Flock - the social web browser
Thanks to this little Banshee plug-in, I can finally switch my music player to Linux without losing years of ratings! Huzzah!
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This is a picture of my desk. Depressing, isn’t it? I have so many loose documents lying around, it’s just about impossible to find anything. In the old days (i.e.: Windows), I’d just use some nifty scanning software to scan, OCR, and save the documents as PDFs on my hard drive. Then, using nifty desktop searching tools (such as Google Desktop Search), it’d be easy to find what I need. Where’s that invoice to Widgets Corp from November? Search "Widgets Corp invoice November" and most likely it’d be the first result. Nifty, huh? Ah, organizational nirvana for disorganized people like me …
However, since switching almost exclusively to Ubuntu, I haven’t found any good scanning and archiving software. Yes, there are programs such as Xsane for scanning, and other programs such as gocr for optical character recognition, but nothing that’s even close to integrated. Therefore, the mess on the desk just keeps getting taller and taller.
Till now. I found gscan2pdf, a great little utility written by Jeffrey Ratcliffe (ra28145 at users dot sf dot net). Basically, it’s a nice GUI shell surrounding a variety of different UNIX programs allowing someone just press a button to scan a document, OCR it, and save it. Plus, it embeds the OCR text into the file’s meta data which, in english, allows existing indexing tools (such as Beagle or, my personal favorite, Tracker) to search. It also supports an optional program called unpaper which can clean up your document scans.
It’s not perfect yet. My main complaint is that you can’t control the level of compression for PDF files, so sometimes the files get fairly large. However, it’s being worked on as we speak.
If you have a scanner, and you need to archive your paper documents, check it out. Better yet, if you like the program, give Jeff a little donation. It’s well worth it.
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While Coke and Pepsi guard their formulas, a compendium of beverage makers have released their formula under GNU free for consumer use and modifications.
FTA: It’s finally here. Later today, Dell will offer U.S customers three different systems with Ubuntu 7.04 installed: the XPS 410n and Dimension E520n desktops and the Inspiron E1505n notebook. These systems will be available at www.dell.com/open by 4pm CST today.
Looks like we moved close to Windsor just in time …
By all appearances, the migration from Microsoft Windows to Novell SUSE Linux on the server and the desktop at the Windsor Unified School District in Northern California has been almost as pain-free as any IT professional could hope for. By this summer, all 5,000 students and 250 teachers will be working off of a Linux-based thin clients…
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