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Over the past week since Automatous' initial release, many bugs have been squashed and features have been tweaked. Here's a current update for things that are new to Automatous.

New Additions

"Invite Friends" Page

Added a fews days ago, the ubiquitous "Invite Friends" option found in many Facebook applications has been added to Automatous. This page only list friends that do not already have the application. Be sure to invite as many people as possible to help test Automatous before it's official open release.
http://apps.facebook.com/automatous/invite.php

Bug Reports

Added recently was a system for reporting bugs. If you come across any bugs, interface glitches, ... [Read more]

After several weeks of development, I have finally opened up the Facebook application I've been working on. It's called the Automatous Facebook Status Updater. It's an application that allows you to schedule how and when your Facebook status changes. Here's a few screenshots of Automatous in action.

Adding a New Update

New Update Confirmed

Automatous is currently open to the public for testing. To add Automatous to your Facebook account and to find out more about joining the test, visit http://apps.facebook.com/automatous/.

While browsing the net, I started reading the "Code of Conduct" pages for several Linux distributions. It's interesting to see exactly why a distribution was created and what drives developers to contribute to them. Here's a short list, and feel free to post comments with links to other distros to be added.

Gentoo - http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/philosophy.xml
Ubuntu - http://www.ubuntu.com/community/conduct
Fedora - http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f9/en_US/index.html#sn-Welcome
Exherbo - http://exherbo.org/
OpenSUSE - http://en.opensuse.org/Guiding_Principles
Slackware - http://www.slackbook.org/html/introduction-slackware.html
Debian - http://www.debian.org/social_contract
Freespire - http://wiki.freespire.org/index.php/Freespire_Project_Vision_Statement
Arch - http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/The_Arch_Way

[EDIT 5/20/08 - 11:36 PM] Added Slackware and Debian
[EDIT 5/20/08 - 12:25 ... [Read more]

So, if you've been trying to visit Nerdica.com (ahhh, old posts) for the past couple hours, you'll notice that it's been down. I've currently just switched to Dreamhost, and I'm liking it so far. The main reason I switched is because my previous host, 1&1, was slow. Some of my friends never had problems with 1&1, but my site would take almost 10 seconds to appear most of the time. Sometimes even 2-3 minutes, and that was just ridiculous. Immediately after I switched, Nerdica loaded in 2-3 seconds. And after a little Wordpress tweaking, the site loads ... [Read more]

After browsing the web to find other people looking in random places for help, I've decided to add a forums feature to the site. If you ever have trouble, or would like to discuss Nerdica.com, feel free to do so on the brand new forums at http://nerdica.com/forums.

Introduction

Wanna know what really goes into just adding that simple extra line in "sources.list" for your favorite Ubuntu repositories? Well, in this article, I'll be detailing some of the work I do while maintaining the CLUG Ubuntu software repository. Listed here will be the basics of how to set up a repository to share your Ubuntu software packages, and a few notes on how to update the repository and troubleshooting a few things you may run into.

Ubuntu (or Debian) software repositories are usually simply hosted on HTTP web servers. There a several directories used for storing the software ... [Read more]

When one of my friends came up to Clemson this summer, he brought a belated birthday gift. At first, I thought it was some sort of notebook. When I realized what it was, I nearly died laughing. He said his dad found it in storage, and gave it to him. The friend knew that I would be the only one to appreciate something like this, and what would be a better gift for me two weeks late?

That's huge!

It was an eight inch "High Capacity Flexible Disk Cartridge". The disk holds a monstrous 10 ... [Read more]

I'd really like to thank Arturo Goga for providing a Spanish translation of the Building a BitTorrent Box article. You can find it at ArturoGoga.com.

Thanks again!

I've currently been tweaking Nerdica.com, and I've added a few features to make it easier to share material found here. The first would be a "Print this Article" option at the bottom of every article. Once that is clicked, a simple, printer-friendly edition is given to you. Second, would be the "Digg It!" button at the bottom of every post. If you like the material, help share it by voting for on Digg.com. And third, the site now uses FeedBurner for syndication. You can find the feeds on the right side of the homepage.

If you have any more ... [Read more]

Why?

While most of our time on the Internet is spent IM'ing, e-mail, or just browsing the Web, you may run in to situations when you need to do some powerful file transfers. If you use a laptop, you're use to getting up, suspending your laptop, and running out the door all of the time. But, sometimes you know you just need something dedicated to get work done. You'll need a solution to retrieve files and serve data when you need it. In this guide, you'll learn how to set a small headless Ubuntu server used to retrieve BitTorrent files, while ... [Read more]