I’ve seen alot of jabber about OpenID the last couple of days so I thought I’d share this tidbit of info.

If you are a blogger, you can claim your blog with your OpenID pretty easily. What this means is, for instance, you (a provider supporting OpenID) can verify that www.ken-mitchell.com is owned by ken-mitchell.myopenid.com . Add the following lines to your page:

<link rel="openid.server" href="http://openidservice.com/server/" />
<link rel="openid.delegate" href="http://you.openidservice.com/" />

where "openidservice" is your OpenID provider, and "you.openidservice.com" is your OpenID.

For example, my URI is www.ken-mitchell.com. My OpenID is ken-mitchell.myopenid.com. Take a look at my source.

<link rel="openid.server" href="http://myopenid.com/server/" />
<link rel="openid.delegate" href="http://www.ken-mitchell.myopenid.com/" />

Check out http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/2007/01/03/OpenID-for-non-SuperUsers for more detailed info.

Introduction

In light of the new tracks available for Rock Band, I thought I’d share some of the tips and tricks I have learned while playing “Rock Band”. For now, I have been concentrating on guitar only. Other instruments may follow soon.

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Introduction

I have attended the school of “Google” for almost 12 years now. What do I mean by that? Google is such a powerful tool, they made it into a verb. Don’t know how to configure tool-x to do function-x? Google it! Don’t know how to hack the universe? Google it!

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  I have my high school football games on DVD and I wanted to put them on my Media Center.  Since the video stream for DVDs is MPEG2 and the audio stream for these DVDs were ac3, I should be able to compress them nicely with a newer codec.  The tool I use is open source and is called MEncoder.  It can be found here.

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Introduction

In this HowTo I will explain how to create website templates in Gimp that can be easily colored by adding a color layer and using the “Addition” blend mode. This is helpful when you want multiple color schemes for the template.
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FYI: I am submitting this post to the “Geeks Are Sexy Ultimate Howto Contest”.

Note: Some shortcut keys have changed in new versions. For instance, Ctrl-K should now be Delete.

Introduction

I done this for a friend the other day. He asked if I could do a quick Halo 3 logo with his number inside instead of the “3″. The hardest thing is getting the texture. I still don’t think it is quite right, but it’s as close as I could get it.

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Introduction

One of the first things to hit a new Linux user is partitioning of the hard drive. If you haven’t yet, you need to check out my Intro to the Linux file system for an overview of each of the important directories. Read the rest of this entry »

Introduction

Paths intimidated me once, because I didn’t understand them. They are actually quite simple. A path, in its simplest form, is a stencil. The best way to learn, is to use them. We’re going to put them to use here to create a checkerboard type logo. By the end, you should end up with something like this.

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Introduction

Fedora is a completely open Linux distribution. It’s policy is to not include any non-free or proprietary software with the distribution. This happens to include MP3, and WMV codecs, as well as many others. The open source codecs are actually better to use (flac for example), but not as popular. Sound familiar?
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Note:To use this procedure in other versions of Fedora, simply change the release number in the url of the rpm -Uhv statement.

Introduction

From Livna:

rpm.livna.org provides many useful packages that can not be distributed in Fedora (previously known as Fedora Core and Extras) for one reason or another, including multimedia applications such as xine and VideoLanClient, and video drivers for ATI and Nvidia cards……

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