n my earlier entry on uShare, I took a look at installing and using uShare. I'll spare you the introduction to uShare and get to the point of this writing. If you're unfamiliar with uShare, then by all means, read our review. In the article, I discussed creating an rc-script for uShare in Gentoo, to automate the process of starting and stopping it. This is beginning of a series of articles on how to package an application for Gentoo's Portage. I'm going to start by creating a more advanced rc-script than what I wrote earlier.

Years ago, I remember buying many Sunbeam-branded cold cathode fluorescent lights (CCFL). Since that time, they've expanded their product offers several times over. You can find cases, power supplies, keyboards, and more all bearing the Sunbeam name. Tuniq is a new divison of Sunbeam, and they offer many similar products, but with a much more enthusiast-like focus. They sent us some of their new thermal compound, Tuniq TX-2.

Jon, Pat, and myself attended Ontario Linuxfest on October 13, 2007 at the Toronto Congress Centre in Toronto. Herein is my review of the first of what we hope is a long-standing conference. The trip up was fortunately uneventful. Neither Jonathan nor Pat have been to Canada, so crossing the border was a new experience. We exchanged some dollars for loonies at the Duty Free, and got through the booths quickly. The hotel, Radisson, is cool and has a ritzy feel.

uShare is UPnP (TM) A/V & DLNA Media Server. It implements the server component that provides UPnP media devices with information on available multimedia files. uShare uses the built-in http server of libupnp to stream the files to clients. Originally, uShare was developed for use with GeeXboX, a LiveCD version of Linux aiming at turning PCs into small Home Theatre systems. We'll save our thoughts on GeeXboX for another time, but we do want to look into uShare. We discovered uShare as an way of connecting Microsoft's XBox360 to a Linux PC.

Several members from BIOS_LEVEL attended the Ohio LinuxFest on the weekend of October 3rd.

The trip in was easy--Columbus traffic didn’t get us down.

Morning session was awesome. Keynote was great, Max Spevack of Red Hat/Fedora gave an talk on community and freedom.