Chris
Jan 6th, 2009 |
By Chris |
Category: Blog, Chris
A couple of months back I was contacted by Jude from Packt, a UK based publishing company specializing in focused IT books, she was looking for people to review the book “MediaWiki Skins Design” and offered to send me a copy.
I accepted the offer and think it’s a really useful book for anyone working with mediawiki. Part of the book walks you through how to create your own …
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Tags: book, mediawiki, review
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Dec 14th, 2008 |
By Chris |
Category: Blog, Chris
Went to the Brisbane internet censorship protest yesterday, the video below from the ABC says that there was around 200 people there. It was a very hot sunny day. Overall I think everyone had a good time, the speakers were good and the crowd was getting behind them, occasionally people made internet geek jokes, it was cool to be around such a large crowd that actually get those jokes. Good …
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Tags: Brisbane, censorship, filter, internet, protest
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Nov 23rd, 2008 |
By Chris |
Category: Blog, Chris
Theres many guides on how to share the internet using gnu/linux on the web, this one will be fairly basic and I’ll try not to ramble on about you could also use this or that device to do it this way or that way. This will just be the cheapest way to get it up and running.
All you need is an optus cable internet connection, 2 computers with network adapters …
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Tags: networking, optus, ubuntu
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Sep 3rd, 2008 |
By Chris |
Category: Blog, Chris, Software

Happy birthday GNU :) Thank you to all the GNU hackers that write free software, thank you for giving me so much freedom when I use my computer and thanks from my friends who I share it with :D
I’m not familiar with Stephen Fry though I enjoyed his video. Rather then repeat what others have written, I’ll just include some info below.
Check out GNU and FSF audio and …
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Tags: birthday, free software, fsf, gnu
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Aug 26th, 2008 |
By Chris |
Category: Chris, Education, Software, Tutorials, Video, virtual world

Makehuman Wikipedia article:
MakeHuman is a software application that generates 3D humanoids; similar to Poser or DAZ Studio. It is written in C++ and Aqsis is necessary to produce a render. The MakeHuman team work towards correctness both in programming (using common file formats) and anatomy. MakeHuman makes extensive use of university research in …
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Tags: 3d, Blender, bvh, makehuman, sculptie, secondlife
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Aug 18th, 2008 |
By Cath |
Category: Blog, Chris, Education, Tutorials, Video, secondlife, virtual world
Chris has found a couple of scripts which may be useful to educators and builders in Second Life.
The Linked Prim Animator Lite (LPAL) is a set of open source scripts which enable you to animate linked objects and attachments . LPAL is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free …
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Aug 10th, 2008 |
By Chris |
Category: Blog, Chris
View, listen and download the album on Jamendo.
My favourite track and one i want to use for something is track 11 Orchestronic.
Tags: cc-by, free, jamendo, music
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Aug 5th, 2008 |
By Chris |
Category: Blog, Chris
fragments of stories by saru (nom provisoire).
I like the first track - “can we speak”
If you want to check out my starred albums visit my Jamendo profile.
Tags: jamendo, music
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Jul 30th, 2008 |
By Chris |
Category: Blog, Chris, Software
I have this movie on internet archive and Youtube. I’m using it to test the vPIP Wordpress plugin, mostly to see how it works with cortado.
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Jul 16th, 2008 |
By Chris |
Category: Blog, Chris, Software
Most people know that stet was the first Web2.0 application, its the software that was built to facilitate public consultation during the Version 3 draft process of the GNU General Public License.
I’ve been meaning to write something about Bradley Kuhn and the AGPL but keep getting sidetracked. Here’s …
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Tags: AGPL, annotation, co-ment, foss, web2.0
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