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Monday, February 08 2010 @ 05:12 PM EST
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Join the Mutaku Folding at Home Team

Daily Links EditionWe finally started our own Folding at Home (FAH) team [102855]. Click through for information on FAH, folding on the PS3 (and other machines), and the necessary details if you are interested in joining our team.
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macbook cd drive blocks wireless?

Rants and RavesThe following is a contribution by one of our users:

just to seem like a legitimate contributor...

dear apple,
i noticed that my wireless went out when i was ripping a data cd. i have a macbook pro. didn't really think that this was gonna be a big deal. i guess multi-tasking is out of the question. thanks for giving me a good reason to twiddle my thumbs uselessly as i waited to get the data off the cd's. why bother their site, since they probably don't care that much. tanks for the rant!
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Getting Your iPhone Pictures to Your Linux Machine

TUTORIALS/GUIDESHad been doubtful this would work and upon initial searches, didn't think it should. But I found a way today to manage your iPhone photos with your linux machine without any tricks or hacks. Read on for the super easy and quick way.
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Recent FAH Stats

General NewsJust wanted to post some recent FAH statistics. Feel free to check out our Mutaku FAH Team information and join in the folding.
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Ventures in upgrading (k)Ubuntu: Fix DVD Playback and Locale Issues in (k)Ubuntu 8.04

TUTORIALS/GUIDESWe have been using kUbuntu for about 3 years now and have always been slow to upgrade to newer versions, fearing the impending bug, broken configuration with hardware, or grub issues. So when 8.04 rolled out, having been using a 'fairly' stable 7.10, we were quite hesitant to change. However, we had finally decided to upgrade this past weekend, and to our suprise, everything was smooth....well somewhat....
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Using Python and Urllib2 to Access Pages with Basic Authentication

TUTORIALS/GUIDESNeed to grab material from a site that uses basic authentication? We will show you a quick example of using URLLIB2 and Python to do such.

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Grep a Tail to Monitor Your Access Log in Color

TUTORIALS/GUIDESUse tail and grep (egrep) to monitor your webserver logs and include some crude colorization.
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Thawing Out A Frozen Linux

Daily Links EditionSometimes you just have to post some tidbits you find in the middle of the night. This one is one of my favorites I always forget...so straight from wikipedia...SysRq method of fixing a bad freeze...
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Cook your RAW photos into JPEG with Linux

TUTORIALS/GUIDESShooting in RAW format is great for the photography buff. However, when it is time to share with others, post on your photo gallery, or print at the local photo printing shop, you want something more portable. Here we'll look at converting RAW photos (specifically Canon's CRW format) into JPEGs using a batch command-line approach in BASH.
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Automatically Backup Webserver

TUTORIALS/GUIDESThis is a start in our adventures of exploring some automated backup solutions. We decided to go simple and homebrew for the first method and used a shell script tied to cron to run mysqldump to backup the databases and rsync to backup some critical directory trees.