Altoid tin MP3 player

I really do love altoid tin hacks

Read about this one here

Choosing your Linux distro

Excellent article on how to pick the linux distro that is right for you.

My advice. Leave yourself room for two separate distros on your hard disk. That way you can find one you like ande continue to experiment with the other partition so you can try out others.

Toollogic minilite knife

Ok Im southern we carry knives...its not a rule but its frowned upon if you dont.

I found this awesome pocketknife from toollogic. It's got a builtin LED flashlite that is way handy looking behind the PC etc

Getting a Nikon Coolpix 2000 to open under Linux

I have struggled...stupidly it appears to make my digital camera accessable under linux.

After many frustrating houyrs I found this awesome digital camera site: http://www.teaser.fr/~hfiguiere/linux/digicam.html

Getting my camera to work took exactly 30 seconds

Change the default USB protocol to PTP instead of mass storage

Wow somethings do get easier

My old Vol-camino

Just an old photo of a past project. This was my old Volvo 145 which I decided to convert into a El-Camino style pickup truck.

The project was much harder than I originally intended it to be. It involved cutting the roof off with a circular saw (blade turned backwards...and ummmm no carbide tips pleez they hurt). Removing the glass from the rear doors--filling in the gaps where the windows and such were.

When finished I had no real need for it and it was given to a friend with a farm where it is still in use (I think) today.

CVS video camera cable

Nice writeup about a CVS camera cable howto