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Tyler Nienhouse's Blog

Switched over to WordPress

I have switched TanCom over to WordPress so that I can concentrate more on the content for now. I’m working on a design, and I’ll try to get that up as soon as possible. Thanks for your patience!


Happy 10th Realese Ubuntu!

The popular community developed Linux distribution “Ubuntu”, which releases every six months (a month after each GNOME) is having it’s 10 release this month! This upcoming release is version 9.04 which is named “Jaunty Jackalope” Here I’ve compiled a list of all of the Ubuntu releases with their release dates, names, and version numbers. October 26, 2004 – Ubuntu Warty … Read More


Separate ALSA Devices for Amarok & Kaffeine

This tutorial explains how to set a specific default ALSA device for Amarok and Kaffeine. (This was tested in Amarok 1.4.9.1 and Kaffeine 0.8.6 both using xine on Kubuntu 8.04 [Hardy Heron]) The main advantage of this would be having your media go through one set of speakers and the system sounds going through another.


DRM…

DRM, which means Digital Rights Management (or as many say, Digital Restriction Manager), restricts how you can use media and even devices that you have purchased. DRM is used by many companies including Apple, Microsoft, and Sony. When a file is protected by DRM the number of computers it can be used on can be limited and many other things. … Read More


TanCom is created!

This website started as TanCom back in August 2004 as a simple archive of things Jake and I found across the web.