Charity Project: Tux Clock for Grants4Grands.net

[vwxy20z]

What's youre spec?

[MrBSD1]

I WANT A CLOCK!!!!!!!!!!!

[JinxXiWolf]

Miss your friggin' weekly videos man. It was my one stop news shop for all things Linux/Android/OpenSource. I hope you eventually start doing this weekly again. My life has been to hectic recently to stop and read any more blog posts.

[shane1nurse]

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[in2040]

Dude, you have not said a thing about Android 4 aka Ice Cream Sandwich(ICS)!

Google Nexus!

Remember Android(Andy) is th grandson of Linux. :D

[RandomNewblet]

Rofl those clocks look awesome XD

[05pricej]

I think it might be ceramic.

[max360se]

@thisweekinlinux

have you tried new Mint 12 ? It should run smoothly on your machine.

[LGN12tv]

@thisweekinlinux so is this your P4A video then?

[thisweekinlinux]

@LGN12tv nah. I'd say it's 1/2 of it. I'm going to try to make a P4A video for this Saturday, and mention this video as a part of it.

[liamfraser280]

Mount a raspberry Pi in it :D! Linux clock :D

[MegaManNeo]

I like Tux.

Making him a actual clock also works quite well, as it looks like :]

[thatsmyh0rse]

What distribution are you running on your computer behind you.

[thisweekinlinux]

@thatsmyh0rse Ubuntu 11.10 with XFCE on it.

[nw0n]

have you tried mate de?

[thisweekinlinux]

@nw0n I have not. might have to look into it though.

[mob314]

Great clock, i'd like to have one.

I hope international sending to France is available :/

[jimbolooo]

hmm.. i wonder if it's ceramic

[thisweekinlinux]

@jimbolooo I don't know. I think it's ceramic though.

[jmac217x]

AHHHH I WANT THAT PENGUIN

[joe4ska]

XFCE for the win!

[jmac217x]

@joe4ska agreed, but today my xfce has broken down :'(

[0frecel0]

are you going to do a P4A vid?

[thisweekinlinux]

@0frecel0 thinking about it. I was considering making this one the P4A video, but I felt bad taking so long to make the video as it was. If I do a P4A video, I can always reference this one as well. a 2-for-1 charity event! :)

[CoryClaxon]

Do you still have your MBP?

[thisweekinlinux]

@CoryClaxon I do indeed. I was using the EOS Utility on it when I filmed this video, so I could see myself.

[hsafti]

Does this Tux clock comes with openbox ..... lol ;-) Glad to see a new upload

[thisweekinlinux]

@hsafti no, it came in a closed box, lol. :P

[Whizard72]

Broadcom Crystal HD is for decoding only unless someone found a way to make it work for encoding as well.... According to Broadcom website, there is no mention of encoding capabilities.

[thisweekinlinux]

@Whizard72 my mistake entirely. :/ either way though, if it can decode the HD videos I shoot with my camera, it might just make it possible to edit on that machine. Not likely, but still interesting.

Worst case, I could actually use it as a media center as well if I installed one.

[Whizard72]

@thisweekinlinux That'll work with playback for sure. Openshot I know uses FFmpeg which definitely supports Crystal HD but it's still pretty spotty and not really production ready which to my dismay seems to be the hallmark of a lot of Linux software. I became a Mac user because it's a Unix based OS striking the best balance between being a Unix OS and being free of Microsoft at the same time.

[bobdotexe]

raspberryPi out soon  :D

/off topic

[thisweekinlinux]

@bobdotexe very excited about that. :)

[BinaryLinux]

You, my friend, are one of a kind.

[thisweekinlinux]

@BinaryLinux a kind of what? :P lol

[schmidtbag]

lol "i wouldn't throw it against a wall". ya, because i test the construction quality of all my products by throwing them at my wall. generally, the only throwing of clocks is out of a window (to see time fly)

[n64dudeman]

Amazing! I don't own anything that features tux, and what better way to buy something featuring tux than purchasing one that supports a charity! I will definitely buy one!

[zikalify]

do visitors to your house think you have a penguin fetish or something? There have been 3 penguins in this video xD

[thisweekinlinux]

@zikalify Lol, they're all in the basement. Most people don't come into my basement, and if they did, the lights and camera equipment are generally the first thing people notice. :P

[joe4ska]

@thisweekinlinux ironicly that just leads to more questions.

[MichaelArmer92]

@thisweekinlinux that would make it more creepy than the penguin's tbh

[fodorgyuri666]

@thisweekinlinux so... in your basement... oooookay... :)

[joguSD]

@thisweekinlinux I'm loving arch + xmonad + xmobar. If you haven't checked out tiling WMs before they're really great (low resource! & powerful). Xmonad is particularly interesting as it's not a WM persay, but a module for haskell that allows you to build a WM.

[vimmy2492]

I think it looks beautiful, I think I'll buy one

[OniLinkPlus]

Curse you no money!