The G1 has a chip in it that handles h264 encoded video (the same video codec used for YouTube videos), though format and scaling when transcoding video from other formats was a problem for me. With a lot of research and tweaking, the commands below seem to work very well for transcoding any video source [...]

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A nice article from TuxRadar on spicing up your LUG and tips on ensuring LUG success.

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Here’s a pretty good list of less known open source software that one might find very helpful. Top 100 open source gems part 1 Top 100 open source gems part 2 While not complete and listing too many games (I’ve never seen Linux as a very good gaming platform), it’s still worthy of a post.

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Simply type this in your Linux command line (assuming Python is installed, and it usually is on many Linux desktops). python -m SimpleHTTPServer & This will launch a very simple web server in the directory from which the command was run, and will establish that directory as root. You can then access it from your [...]

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