Category Archives: planet-ubuntu-users

PyOhio 2012 Presentation – Python and Android

Posted on September 4, 2012 by brousch

About a month ago I gave a talk titled “Python and Android: A descent into madness with Ben Rousch” at the PyOhio conference. I think the talk went really well, much better than the one I gave last year. There … Continue reading →

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Running Stardock’s “Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion” on Linux

Posted on July 17, 2012 by brousch

My sister works at Stardock, a company in the Detroit area, and she has been pestering me to try one of their games. It took a while for me to get motivated enough to do so since Stardock’s games are … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu 12.04 Splash Screen Lockup with LiveCD

Posted on May 9, 2012 by brousch

I just setup Kubuntu Linux 12.04 on a HP Pavilion zv6000 and ran into a pesky bug. This bug is on all of the Ubuntu and Kubuntu 12.04 final release CDs and ISOs, so this is going to be a … Continue reading →

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Video Editing on Linux at The Open Source Futures

Posted on May 4, 2012 by brousch

I gave an hour and a half demo of video editing on Linux at the May Open Source Futures meeting in Lansing. I covered a little bit of FFMPEG and a lot of the OpenShot non-linear video editor. There were … Continue reading →

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A Free Viewer for Microsoft Outlook .msg Files

Posted on April 18, 2012 by brousch

In my day job I ran into a situation where one of my users needed to read the contents of a bunch of .msg files. We use Google Apps and don’t have Microsoft Outlook installed anywhere, so this was a … Continue reading →

Posted in grlug, java, linux, planet-ubuntu-users, tech, troubleshooting, ubuntu-michigan, wmlug | 16 Comments