CircleCount helps you better understand Google+

2013-05-23 23:29:32 (21 comments, 0 reshares, 12 +1s)

Hypothetical:

If someone were to put together a 24-hour telethon to raise donations for a variety of open source projects... would you watch it (or part of it)?

2013-05-23 21:33:13 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Does anyone know what the maximum length of a Google+ On Air Hangout that gets published to YouTube is?  Anyone think it could be 24+ hours? :)

2013-05-23 21:20:09 (7 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Any +SUSE Studio users out there know of a good repo to use for adding +GNOME 3.8 to my +openSUSE 12.3-based appliances?

2013-05-23 21:10:10 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 34 +1s)

I just want to take a moment to give virtual high-fives out to a whole ton of you crazy nerds on G+.  I have found the various discussions -- accompanied by the crazy and awesomely diverse insights of all of you -- to be immensely helpful in everything that I do.

G+ has become my defacto "go to" place to have truly nerdy conversations.  And that is okay by me.

2013-05-23 18:07:18 (66 comments, 0 reshares, 16 +1s)

I've been talking a lot, over the last year, with software developers.  Specifically indie devs that earn a living (or attempt to do so) by making their apps and games.  And many of them have been pondering how to successfully pull off what I failed to do last year.

[What I failed to do: I tried making my software Open Source, then find a way to fund full time development via either donations or by a "pay to download" system.  Both flopped.  Big time.]

Many (myself included) make closed source software.  And much of that software (including mine) does a dandy job of funding itself.  But how to do it in a way that accomplishes all of the following remains elusive for all of us:

1) Provide source code.
2) Provide the software in a free or cheap way to all.
3) Actually fund continued development at a similar (or improved) rate.
Thi... more »

2013-05-23 16:44:01 (4 comments, 2 reshares, 7 +1s)

App-Make-inator 13.06 Beta 4 is out for Linux, Windows and Mac.  Includes the ability to scroll your project area by clicking and dragging in any empty space.

2013-05-23 19:46:47 (52 comments, 153 reshares, 564 +1s)

Oh, +Linus Torvalds.  You so goofy.

Update: This may not be the real Linus.  It's possible this is an impostor.  Verification underway.  (Though why someone would impersonate someone else just to leave a short, benign comment on a YouTube video is beyond me.)

Update #2: Linus has chimed in -- "+Bryan Lunduke: not real, I'm afraid.  The lack of cursing should have clued you in."

So, there you have it.  Move along.  Nothing to see here. :)

[For those not "in the know", this is for the "Why Linux Sucks" - 2013 and "Why Linux Doesn't Suck" - 2013 videos.]

2013-05-22 17:26:19 (3 comments, 3 reshares, 13 +1s)

<1920's Bad Buy Voice> There's this guy named +Zane Swafford, see.  And he wants a hamburger, see.  So he made some Open Source time tracking software that he's also selling on the Ubuntu Software Center, see! </1920's Bad Buy Voice>

Seriously.  Check out the video on the link.  It made me smile.

Now somebody go buy this kid a hamburger!

2013-05-22 04:20:15 (4 comments, 2 reshares, 11 +1s)

Want to sort your files via shell script?
311 function MakeTree() {
312    local outf="/tmp/mktree-$RANDOM"
313    find . -maxdepth 1 -a \(\
314          -iname '*.jpg' \
315          -o -iname '*.png' \
316          -o -iname '*.gif' \
317          -o -iname '*.tif?' \
318          -o -iname '*.dng' \
319          \) \
320          -a -type f \
321    > $outf.a
322  
323    cat $outf.a | while read F ; do
324       local b1=$(head -c4096 $F \
325       | strings \
326       | egrep '201.:..:..')
327       local b2=${b1%% *}
328       local b3=${b2//:/-}
329       echo "$b3 $F"
330    done > $outf.b
331  332    cat $outf.b \
333    | sort | while read F ; do
334       local d=${F%% *}
335       local ... more »

2013-05-21 22:05:17 (23 comments, 18 reshares, 69 +1s)

The RPiCluster is a 33 node Beowulf cluster built using Raspberry Pis (RPis). During my dissertation work at Boise State University I had need of a cluster to run a distributed simulation I've been developing. The RPiCluster is the result. Each RPi is overclocked to 1GHz and is running Arch Linux. This demo shows the RPiCluster running a parallel program I developed using MPI to control all of the RGB LEDs installed on each of the nodes.

More information:
http://coen.boisestate.edu/ece/raspberry-pi/

2013-05-21 20:53:37 (7 comments, 1 reshares, 17 +1s)

Was reminded, earlier today, of some of the amazing things that Gary Kildall accomplished in his, far too short, life.  Gary, more than any other person in the computer field, influenced me starting to do... what  I do.  He showed to so many of us what was possible.

Don't know who Gary Kildall is?  Watch this old episode of Computer Chronicles all about him.  Heck, this is one of the most interesting (and accurate) 30 minutes of early micro/personal computers.

2013-05-21 19:57:31 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Anyone here listen to the Voice of Russia radio station?  It sounds like I'll be on tomorrow some time talking about Open Source privacy software and submitting news tips in secure, anonymous ways.  (Basically some of the stuff in this article.)

The show plays from noon to 2pm Eastern time (I think).  I'll try to get information for those of you that want to tune in.

2013-05-20 23:25:23 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

Full visual project file for the HTML5 "Motivational Poster Generator".  Feel free to use however you like.  Go crazy.

2013-05-20 22:39:04 (7 comments, 1 reshares, 20 +1s)

Wish someone would put together a "bundle" of consumer Linux desktop apps.  Like the Humble bundle... only not for games.  This would make me smile.

2013-05-20 21:06:05 (11 comments, 10 reshares, 42 +1s)

I love how confident Ubuntu is in my abilities.

Made with this: http://is.gd/7fxMr6

2013-05-20 15:57:15 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 17 +1s)

Motivational posters are awesome.  But motivational posters about Operating Systems?  More awesome.

http://www.lunduke.com/osmotivation/osm.html

Here is a web app to build them for you.  Now you have an unlimited supply.  You're welcome.

2013-05-20 15:38:14 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Want to make the sexiest looking HTML5 apps in human history?

Good.  Because App-Make-inator was just updated to include a new visual style.  And it looks goooooooood.

2013-05-19 20:28:44 (16 comments, 0 reshares, 16 +1s)

This is how Doctor Who made me feel last night. What does everyone else think? Pure awesome? Or only really super duper great?

2013-05-19 04:30:46 (86 comments, 2 reshares, 23 +1s)

What would you say is the classiest looking Linux Desktop distro out there?  +elementary?  +Linux Mint?  +Ubuntu's Unity?  Stock KDE or GNOME?  Maybe something else?

2013-05-19 03:21:28 (8 comments, 0 reshares, 13 +1s)

Dear Internet: I am avoiding you until I have watched the Doctor Who season finale tonight.  Please do not do anything awesome while I am away.  

2013-05-18 04:45:26 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Having a 24 hour "Pay What You Want" sale.  Because it's nice outside.  And I feel happy.

What you can snag (for Linux, MacOS X and Windows) : Illumination Software Creator, App-Make-inator, Game-Make-inator, Linux Tycoon... and a bunch of other stuff too.  Check the link for the full list.

2013-05-18 04:25:56 (42 comments, 2 reshares, 14 +1s)

Ok.  Doctor Who chit chat time.

With the big episode coming up tomorrow... I'm curious what you guys think Clara really is.

My fingers are crossed for something big and crazy.  Like "Clara is really the Master".

2013-05-18 03:40:16 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 0 +1s)

Having a 24 hour "Pay What You Want" sale.  Because it's nice outside.  And I feel happy.

What you can snag (for Linux, MacOS X and Windows) : Illumination Software Creator, App-Make-inator, Game-Make-inator, Linux Tycoon... and a bunch of other stuff too.  Check the link for the full list.

2013-05-18 01:50:52 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 0 +1s)

Having a 24 hour "Pay What You Want" sale.  Because it's nice outside.  And I feel happy.

What you can snag (for Linux, MacOS X and Windows) : Illumination Software Creator, App-Make-inator, Game-Make-inator, Linux Tycoon... and a bunch of other stuff too.  Check the link for the full list.

2013-05-17 23:38:04 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 12 +1s)

Work is ongoing to get the Ubuntu phone is a basic state for daily use at the end of May - see http://www.jonobacon.org/2013/05/17/dogfooding-the-ubuntu-phone-my-early-experience/ for current state of the phone.

2013-05-17 22:28:28 (9 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

I could kill for a donut right now.  Up in Bellingham, WA there's a place called Rocket Donuts.  You can sit right at Gort's feet.  Good donuts too.  (Here's a picture of the last time I was there with the wife and kiddo.)  So far to drive though.  Very lazy.

2013-05-17 19:56:12 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

Having a 24 hour "Pay What You Want" sale.  Because it's nice outside.  And I feel happy.

What you can snag (for Linux, MacOS X and Windows) : Illumination Software Creator, App-Make-inator, Game-Make-inator, Linux Tycoon... and a bunch of other stuff too.  Check the link for the full list.

2013-05-17 19:37:45 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

App-Make-inator 13.06 Beta 2 adds animated windows and improved drawing blocks.

And I'm totally not going to tell you how you can pick it up nice and cheap for the next few hours.  *cough*  http://lunduke.com/?p=4423

2013-05-17 15:16:09 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 10 +1s)

Oh, the huge Manatee!  Only 12 hours left to pay what you want for Games and game-making software.  Only 12 hours!  *RUN FOR THE HILLS!*

Oh yeah.  Here's the link.  http://lunduke.com/?p=4423

2013-05-17 03:39:55 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Having a 24 hour "Pay What You Want" sale.  Because it's nice outside.  And I feel happy.

What you can snag (for Linux, MacOS X and Windows) : Illumination Software Creator, App-Make-inator, Game-Make-inator, Linux Tycoon... and a bunch of other stuff too.  Check the link for the full list.

2013-05-16 21:53:52 (10 comments, 5 reshares, 11 +1s)

Having a 24 hour "Pay What You Want" sale.  Because it's nice outside.  And I feel happy.

What you can snag (for Linux, MacOS X and Windows) : Illumination Software Creator, App-Make-inator, Game-Make-inator, Linux Tycoon... and a bunch of other stuff too.  Check the link for the full list.

2013-05-16 20:12:12 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

App-Make-inator 13.06 Beta 1 introduces super-slick, super easy to use, animations for your HTML5 apps.

2013-05-16 18:11:55 (14 comments, 6 reshares, 34 +1s)

There are 2 constants in the Universe.

1) We all like screenshots.
2) We like them, even more, if they are screenshots of awesome, and rarely seen, Linux Desktop Environments.

2013-05-15 18:59:45 (7 comments, 1 reshares, 18 +1s)

I'm not necessarily 100% behind Bitcoin as a currency.  But the fact that the Department of Homeland Security is attacking companies for, what seem like to me, technicalities in paperwork processing... that just smells wrong.

2013-05-15 17:09:24 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 19 +1s)

Maaaaaan.  Between +Ubuntu's UDS and Gogole I/O... I'm going to be spending a lot of time watching videos this week.

2013-05-15 15:53:28 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 5 +1s)

T-Minus 7 Minutes, and counting, until ZE KEYNOTEZ.  (You can watch it live at this link.)

2013-05-15 06:04:37 (5 comments, 3 reshares, 14 +1s)

Everybody in the house do the Bartman

2013-05-14 22:27:38 (18 comments, 2 reshares, 17 +1s)

I present to you: The Ultimate Fedora Code Name Generator!  http://lunduke.com/?p=4418

It's time for a return to the glory that is the "Beefy Miracle".  Find the best possible code name (from 1,764 possibilities) and post your favorites.  Don't forget to let the +Fedora Project know too. :)

2013-05-14 20:27:36 (13 comments, 3 reshares, 13 +1s)

Man.  I wish all Fedora code-names were meat-based.

"Beefy Miracle" was awesome.  "Spherical Cow" I can kinda get behind... though significantly less awesome.

"Schrödinger's Cat"?  I mean.  I guess that's cool.  Makes for a cool t-shirt, to be sure.  But it doesn't have that BEEFY MIRACLE bang to it.

Hey +Fedora Project dudes and dudettes!  You should let me name Fedora 20.  I promise you will get press attention for what I will choose.

2013-05-14 19:52:40 (20 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

Any of you have any recommendations for great consumer, commercial apps that run on Linux?

I've gotten a few notes from folks looking to buy commercial Linux software -- because they want to support more quality Linux apps.

I used to keep a list of Commercial (Consumer Focused) Linux Applications on my site... but that list is old and way out of date.  So I could use your help in putting together an up to date list for folks.

(Not looking for Games here, we've got that covered.)

(Also not interested in a debate on the validity and value of commercial and/or closed source software on Linux.  We can have that discussion elsewhere.  Let's stay focused.)

2013-05-14 17:08:34 (9 comments, 2 reshares, 8 +1s)

Unity Next running on Mir - recently the Mir (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mir) and Unity 8 (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UnityNextSpec) teams got Unity Next up and running on Mir. Now, this work is still very early in development and neither Mir nor Unity Next are finished yet, but I reached out to Michael Zanetti, who is on the team, and asked him to put together a short video demo to show the progress of this work.

As you can see, impressive progress is being made; this demo is running on a MacBook Pro Retina utilizing the full resolution of 2880x1800 pixels and using Intel HD 4400 graphics. The performance is already looking great, and the team haven't done a deep dive into performance optimization yet.

If you are interested in participating in Mir development, see http://unity.ubuntu.com/mir/ and if you are interested in participating in Unity 8, see... more »

2013-05-14 16:42:44 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 7 +1s)

The Ubuntu Developer Summit kicks off in just a moment at http://summit.ubuntu.com/uds-1305/meeting/21798/intro/ - join us!

2013-05-14 01:07:00 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 11 +1s)

I got bored again this afternoon.  So I did what any sane, but slightly bored, nerd would do in my situation.  I added some more people to my "Put words in this nerds mouth" web app.  Obviously.

http://lunduke.com/MakeNerdsSay/MakeNerdsSay.html

This time I added some more famous nerds like +Felicia Day, +ze frank, +Leo Laporte, +Nixie Pixel and +Wil Wheaton to join the crew of semi-sorta-almost famous Linux nerds already on there.

Oh, and I also added a little "Follow This Nerdy Person on G+" button.  Because it was easy.  And I wanted to.

Now I fully expect to see some rather funny words being put in these folks mouths.  Chop chop.  I demand entertainment.

2013-05-14 00:04:42 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

24 is coming back

2013-05-13 23:52:54 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

Solidly good, productive day.  Almost done with the next version of Game-Make-inator (with full, fancy-pants HTML5 exporting).  Time to finish off the day doing something random and silly...

2013-05-14 01:32:01 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

This is what comes of having insomnia...

http://lunduke.com/MakeNerdsSay/MakeNerdsSay.html

You can make a bunch of nerds (mostly Linux nerds) say whatever you like.  You're welcome.

Some of the nerds you can use for your own enjoyment: Me, +Chris Fisher, +Matt Hartley, +Aaron Seigo, +Jono Bacon, +Jordan Keyes and +Linus Torvalds.

(Go easy on them.  These are folks that I either respect a great deal, or are good friends.  Ah, what am I saying... let 'em have it.  They can take it.)

2013-05-13 18:24:22 (25 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

I'm writing an article for Linux World where I cover some of the more... unusual Linux Desktop Environments out there.  I've already got a pretty awesome list (yes.  "awesome" is included)... but I want to make sure I'm not missing anything truly incredible.  (I've only got space to include about 10 of them.)  Stuff like Sugar, xmonad, UDE, etc.

What would you consider to be the craziest, most awesome looking (not necessarily the most usable) Desktop Environment for Linux?

2013-05-13 18:20:39 (6 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

Illumination Software Creator 6.0 Beta 9 brings back PyGTK, iOS and Flash project building from one, single, visual project!

2013-05-12 11:49:21 (12 comments, 4 reshares, 25 +1s)

This is what comes of having insomnia...

http://lunduke.com/MakeNerdsSay/MakeNerdsSay.html

You can make a bunch of nerds (mostly Linux nerds) say whatever you like.  You're welcome.

Some of the nerds you can use for your own enjoyment: Me, +Chris Fisher, +Matt Hartley, +Aaron Seigo, +Jono Bacon, +Jordan Keyes and +Linus Torvalds.

(Go easy on them.  These are folks that I either respect a great deal, or are good friends.  Ah, what am I saying... let 'em have it.  They can take it.)

2013-05-12 09:29:09 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 10 +1s)

Ah man.  Awake.  2:30am.  Doot dee doo.  Time to lay in bed, code... and watch Pulp Fiction.