We are working on a series of tutorials and walkthroughs/reviews for building a home theater pc (HTPC) running Linux.

This is a little video we wanted to get posted as a teaser to the project. This particular post (see video) goes through running Hulu-desktop and controlling it with an IR remote via the LIRC software.

Had 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.

We 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....

Need 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.

Use tail and grep (egrep) to monitor your webserver logs and include some crude colorization.

Shooting 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.

This 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.

As you probably know, we have setup openfire as an xmpp chat server. We use spark by the same people for a nice little client to interface with the server and chat with other users. However, in Linux, clicking links sent by users would not work. Read on for the quick fix.

As I'm sure you are aware, we have started our own Folding at Home (FAH) team here at Mutaku. We have been working on getting some more of our old hardware, that had been collecting dust on a shelf, back to work folding proteins. One goal in mind was to try and minimize the amount of power that each machine would require, as well as attempt to cut down on unnecessary heat and noise. The end result is today's guide. We will go through a brief HOW-TO on setting up a "thin" client running a Linux live-cd to add to our collection of boxes running the FAH command line interface (CLI) client.

While perusing some Linux stories today, I came across a reference to using SBM, Smart Boot Manager. SBM runs from a floppy disk and allows systems to boot from a selection of disks, effectively allowing one to bypass an old BIOS and have more advanced boot options.