Ryan Kavanagh's /dev/brain

Turnin-NG version 1.1 has just been released.

Here's a recipe that first appeard in La nouvelle encyclopédie de la cuisine by Mme Jehanne Benoit under the name of Foie de veau à la vénitienne (Venetian veal liver).

I use LaTeX for nearly all of my document preparation.

Kobby 1.0 beta 5 is now available in Kubuntu Lucid.

I've finally migrated my blog to HTML5.

Yesterday, Slashdot reported on an ASCII art animated cat from 1968, made by printing hundreds of computer generated images of an ASCII cat and photographing them onto cinefilm.

My typesetting of the Gavotte got accepted at IMSLP's Petrucci Music Library, download it now here.

I've typeset Prokofiev's Gavotte (Op. 32, No. 3) using GNU Lilypond and Frescobaldi.

I'm currently migrating my old wordpress blog to Jekyll.

The Kubuntu website has undergone a minor face lift this morning, we’ve moved the news off of the front page, added easy to follow action items in our masthead and tried to make the content a bit more captivating to our target users.

I learned of a cool feature in the cd command, which to my knowledge works under zsh, bash, ksh and possibly other shells. cd - takes you to your previous directory, letting you easily switch back and forth between two directories.

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Sun, 27 Sep 2009 20:00:00 -0500 In light recent new attacks against SHA-1 [1,2], and the NIST guidance on 1024 bit keys and SHA-1 hashes [3,4], I have decided to move to a new OpenPGP key of a larger size.

I’ve been trying to figure out why I was always getting mount.nfs: mount system call failed when trying to mount an NFS share from my Debian server on my Kubuntu box.

The Quassel irc client was shipped as default in Kubuntu 9.04 and has this lovely feature allowing you to monitor multiple windows simultaneously, see this screenshot for a better idea of what it does.

At work I was asked to write a small script that allows users to get their quota from a Windows machine since apparently Windows doesn’t have an equivalent to the ‘quota‘ command.

One of the hardest parts of starting a new project is finding a catchy, easy to pronounce and easy to spell name.

The Kubuntu wiki has a flashy new theme!

As webmaster, one should test their work in as many browsers as they can.

Sorry, two posts in a row, but here’s my quote.

Hi Planet, Due to numerous requests, we’re looking for screenshots of Kubuntu Intrepid to put on the Kubuntu website.

After months of work, Kubuntu now has a lovely new website.

Happy New Year to everybody!

Well, on the way back from getting school supplies, my mom decided to stop in at the local computer shop (Her old "MDG" computer is on its last legs with 512MB ram / P3).

I'll be away for the next two weeks...

July 27th is Sysadmin Appreciation Day, so, I'd just like to thank all the Sysadmins out there, for keeping our systems ticking.

I finally managed to pick up a copy of Accelerated C++ by Andrew Koenig & Barbara E.

Here's a rosary that my school asked me to make for our retiring nun, it's made out of stainless steel and bronze.

As some people might know, you can easily switch Caps lock with the Left Ctrl key, by adding Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:swapcaps" to the Keyboard InputDevice section in /etc/X11/xorg.conf However, to have caps lock switch with the right control key, don’t…

As some of you may remember, 3 weeks ago, I posted a blog entry announcing that I would be switching to the Dvorak keyboard layout.

I happened to stumble across what is possibly the internet's longest and most creative riddle.

I got my 3 Ubuntu and 3 Kubuntu CDs in the mail today.

Here is a light and dark blue half-persian 3-in-1 anklet that I made for a friend's birthday.

I've finally decided to give Dvorak (Not the composer, Antonin, but the keyboard layout) a run...

A couple of weeks ago, nixternal blogged about notify-send and irssi in Kubuntu.

I’m currently looking for multiple choice questions that could be used for Quizbuntu, #ubuntu-trivia ’s trivia bot.

Friday, March 23, CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Canada’s main TV/radio news channel) posted an article on their website encouraging readers to switch to Linux, Ubuntu in particular.

We now have access to ubuntu trivia 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, thanks to Quizbuntu, the Trivia bot.