Bose Triport (over-ear) review

Sorry for the time I’ve been gone. I’ve had lots of stuff going on and have been working; I swear. Although most of my writings will be on the topic generally of computers, on occasion I’ll bring you special pieces on the mobile and audio fronts. I’m heavy on both, as well as Linux/Open-Source news, and tech news in general. Today, I’d like to bring you a special review of the Bose Triport headphones. Let’s get started.

The Terminal: Managing Files & Directories

Next up in this series of tutorials on the terminal, we’ll look at managing files and directories. What do I mean by managing? What we’ll be doing today is learning how to create, move, copy, and delete files and directories. I’d like to give a better introduction to the topic, but what I’ve already got is pretty self explanitory, so lets just hop to it!

The Terminal: Logging in as Root and System Updates

Ok, so since you’ve been using your Debian Etch install for about a week now, you’ll probably have noticed an orange square with what can only be described as the North star on it in your top bar. If you move your mouse over it, a small box should pop up saying “There are X updates available”. Luckily for Linux, this is the only thing that handles updates, so you won’t get every application bugging you to upgrade to the next version (*cough*LimeWire*cough*). Now there are two ways to go about this: The GUI and terminal ways.

The Terminal: Viewing and Editing files.

So you’ve been moving through directory after directory, and wondering what all those files are. Hell, you’re probably wondering why your system has so many directories! Well, now that you know how to change and list directories, lets look a few ways of viewing and reading files. The first types of tools will simply print the file on the screen.

The Terminal: Navigating and Listing

OK, so we’ve gotten Linux installed and it’s not as bad as you thought it was, right? You’re surfing the net with Iceweasel or Epiphany, you’re jamming to your favorite tunes with Rythmbox, getting your email and managing your contact list with Evolution… You’re using Linux! You’re probably even thinking its not that different from Windows. Sure, a different looking desktop, and some different programs, but it functions the same, right? Well, yes and no. In a previous post I made note of some attributes and features standard in Linux that differ far from Windows. Things like the kernel type, software installation methods, file-system layouts, file types, etc. Well, today, you’ll begin to really see that as we journey on where your average users dare not to go… (cue scary music)… the Terminal.

Exploring Debian Etch

Hi, and welcome back to my blog. Where we last left off, we had successfully installed Debian Linux on our computers. Now let’s learn how to use it. By default, Debian has a ton of quality software available for you to use free of cost, and is a very stable OS. After selecting your new Debian installation in GRUB, shortly, you should see your log in screen. In put your user name and password you created during installation.

Installing Debian Etch

If you’re following this blog, and don’t know me personally, than you’re probably also interested in becoming a Linux Network Admin, right? right. You might be wondering where to start? Well, first and foremost, you need to be familiar with Linux as a user. You should know the basics of PC hardware, software, and also have some conception of what UNIX, Open Source programming, and Linux are. We’ll begin by installing Linux on your computer.

What is Linux?

Linux is an Open-Source Operating System (OS). It was first created by Finnish grad student Linus Torvalds in 1991. He started it as a project for school, modeled after Minix, which was a UNIX-based OS. Linus called it Linux, because his work was modeled after UNIX, and using his name. Linux has no direct relation to UNIX like other OSs such as Solaris (Sun Microsystems), SunOS (old Sun Microsystems), Irix (SGI), AIX (IBM), UNIXware (SCO), Tru64(Compaq), HP-UX(Hewlett Packard), BSD, and many others. Linux is written from the ground up and is very well written. It’s had a lot of help with it’s development, and has millions of programmers each day building it. Why so many, you ask?It’s Open-Source. By 1993, the Linux kernel had reached 1.0

What is UNIX?

Many people have heard of UNIX, but few have actually used it, especially recently. UNIX is rather old and and relatively unused by most of the general population? Why? Because most people aren’t Network Administrators/Engineers, or Programmers. My father has been working with computers in many ways, including several years in computer programming, and has never touched a UNIX machine.

What is Open Source?

In the last few years, you may have heard of this new programming model. Not like C++, Java, or Python. Those are languages. Different boxes of tools for the same jobs. By programming model, I mean different way of writing applications.

Open-source software is exactly what it sounds like. You (the average user) can have access to the source code for it’s corresponding piece of software. You may be thinking “Uh, great. Now what?” Doesn’t sound like much? When you get the source code for an Open-source application, it’s not partial, or locked in someway. It’s all there for you to take apart, rebuild, destroy, modify, whatever you want. If something doesn’t work