Posts Tagged Linux

Moving to DynDNS

After switching to FiOS, it was time to move my domain, hurst-ri.us, from a solid provider in dotEarth to a new location with DynDNS. The reason for the move is because I would no longer be able to co-locate with my brother’s store, rah-cocos.com, as he prepares to close his store/warehouse — along with the [...]

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Running VICE

VICE is a conglomerate of Commodore 8-bit emulators.  For the inexperienced user looking to do some retro-gaming from those wildly popular machines from the late ’70s and throughout the ’80s, it can be a daunting and frustrating task to operate those “friendly” computers.  Particularly because you had varying-sized game cartridges, floppy software, cassette software, and [...]

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PS3 Media Server

I discovered a nifty project, PMS, written in JAVA that allows my Linux (or Windows) workstation stream multimedia (music, photos, movies) to my Sony Playstation 3, hooked-up for viewing in all of its 52″ HDTV glory.  It also includes several options to stream other multimedia content directly from the web, too, such as YouTube, Internet [...]

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OpenCBM

With it freezing and snowing today, I decided to make use of the idle time by hooking up my pristine VIC-1541 floppy disk drive to my workstation and do some file archiving to real 5-1/4″ media using OpenCBM under Linux. OpenCBM provides an API library and some useful command-line tools.  The following is an example [...]

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Qemu-KVM

I am a big fan of VMware.  Ever since pre-ordering their Workstation V1.0 offering for Linux in 1999, I have been purchasing their upgrades over the years — the use of VM technology on a workstation for me was a no-brainer.  And even though other VM technologies have emerged, there was this decent community-edition VMware [...]

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