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Taking My Daughter to Penguicon This Weekend
The Penguicon website likens this weekend’s Science Fiction and Open Source Convention in Romulus, Michigan to a “whole solar system to explore.” “The twin suns of this binary system are two...
View ArticleHands-on and Close-up Fun: Penguicon 7.0
My daughter and I are making a note here: Penguicon 7.0 weekend road trip = Huge Success. We’re definitely planning on attending again, and I’d encourage other GeekDads and GeekMoms to give it a good...
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New Sugar on a Stick Brings Much Needed Improvements
The Sugar learning environment is the operating system and software that powers the XO laptops. Sugar Labs packages their software stack onto a flash drive allowing you to not only test drive their...
View Article100 Essential Skills for Geeks (GeekDad Wayback Machine)
As Geeks we are expected to have a certain set of skills that the majority of the population does not possess. This list is by no means complete, but I think it is a good sample of the skills required ...
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Ubuntu 11.04 Is Coming — And Here’s How to Preview the Beta
Canonical is set to release Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) this month, and the first Beta is now available as an installable image. I’ve been running various flavors of Linux for many years as my primary...
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Happy Ubuntu 11.04 Release Day!
Today is April 28th and the release version of Ubuntu 11.04 is now available for download. We previously discussed running the Betas of 11.04 in Virtualbox, and that’s still an option if you’re not...
View ArticlenD: The Game-Changing Handheld Console
The internet has been abuzz lately with news of “nD”, a newly-announced handheld gaming console aimed directly at the indie gaming world. According to the FAQs at the nD site, the console will boast a...
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How to Assemble a Home Network Storage Server
One geeky dad gets tasked with building a home media server, and shows why it's as easy as building with Lego bricks.
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An Adventure in Cable Cutting – 3 Weeks In
So my family is nearly three weeks into cutting the cable TV to our house. Here are the results so far… I’ll just say it’s gone smoother than expected. Writing for myself, I haven’t really missed...
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Dropping the F-BOMB at ShmooCon
If you’ve read any science fiction in the last decade or so, you’re surely familiar with the notion of computing motes or “smart-dust.” These nanotech computing devices are envisioned to possess a...
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Installing Debian Linux on Oracle VirtualBox
A few months back, I posted an article about setting up a small home server. I’ve been playing around with the setup of that machine lately, and rather than breaking the working system, I’ve been...
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Raspberry Pi Summer Programming Contest
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced a summer programming contest for young Makers, programmers, and other curious geeklings 18 and under. The rules are simple, develop software on the Raspberry...
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Kickstarter Alert | Illuminating Kickstarter Projects from Australia
You would think there was enough light in what is often referred to as the sunburnt country, but Australian entrepreneurs appear to have a growing obsession with making our lights smarter. Within...
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If you build it... | Third Generation of Lego Mindstorms Coming to Classrooms...
The third evolution of Lego robotics, Lego Mindstorms EV3, is announced with specially developed plans for classroom use.
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