Mission Penguin

If you’ve found your way to Mission Penguin you are no doubt familiar with MythTV.  But just in case:  

MythTV is a GPL licensed suite of programs that allow you to build the mythical home media convergence box on your own using Open Source software and operating systems. MythTV is known to work on Linux and Mac OS X (PowerPC and Intel). It does not run on Windows.

This morning I received a phone call from the illustrious Bub. He was going on about his recent job prospects and a prior interview he had this morning. During the interview he asked what format would they like his resume in. Invariably Microsoft Word's ubiquitous .DOC was the reply. Bub quickly mentioned that he uses OpenOffice spurring much blank stares and confused expressions. Somewhat expecting this, Bub attempted to explain. Realizing that the interviewer did not care in the slightest he quickly stopped, only to vent to me later. Why is it that more people aren't aware of quality open source software?

I was looking for a replacement to BBClone touted as "A PHP based Web Counter on Steroids." We've been using BBClone for about 18 months now, and it's worked very well for our small corporate website.

It does your basic reporting, it shows basic client information including IP address, (resolved to a hostname) country of origin, Operating System, Browser, and on and on. Yawn.

One of my users asked me to help format and re-install Microsoft Windows for his family member.  Again.  This would be the third, maybe fourth time Windows was re-installed on this machine.

Disk imaging has come a long way in the past ten years or so. The Symantec “Ghost” line of products used to be the preferred way to snapshot images, so much so that techs would often refer to cloning or imaging as “Ghosting.”

I can't believe it is that time already. Ohio LinuxFest 2007, in Columbus Ohio (obviously), begins Saturday September 29th, 2007. I'll definitely be in attendance. It should be a fun time for those who can make it. I've looked through the speakers, and I must say that several talks sound interesting. Last year was great. I met interesting people, learned interesting stuff, and drank a fair share of excellent libations.

As you can see Mission Penguin is finally getting some attention from me. I know that the two of you who actually visit my site will be thrilled. There's a lot of work to be done still, and I do plan on moving over the old content. We'll see how successful that is. At any rate I think everyone will be pleased with the final product.