Archive for October, 2004
Hiding in the Hoodlands
Saturday, October 30th, 2004My daughter taught us a new slang term the other day: The Hoodlands. That’s the nickname the kids have given to the area we live in, known more commonly as The Woodlands which is a northern Houston suburb. I’m not clear on why the kids call it that, though my daughter thinks [...]
Gallery Article
Saturday, October 30th, 2004I’m working on part II of a two-part series on using GIMP and PHP to create an online gallery for LinuxFormat. The first part was writing a script that could be run on a directory full of images to generate thumbnails in both grayscale (actually, 24-bit destarutated) and color. That one was delivered [...]
MythTV segfaults when starting LiveTV
Sunday, October 24th, 2004I’m making progress – the kernel modules all load now. I had to switch to RH’s insmod from Busybox’s because translucency.o won’t load with BusyBox’s. That means all insmod’s need -r now and all modprobe’s don’t work (they got switched to insmod’s). But that pretty much matches what Larry did so I [...]
MythTV: via_v4l_drv not loading
Saturday, October 23rd, 2004The via_v4l_drv.o module is available and the init.sh script should be loading it, but apparently it didn’t get loaded – maybe the load order is wrong. Anyway, once that module is loaded then /dev/video2, which makes me think MythTV will be happier and possibly run now.
I think I just need to find out why [...]
A new gig
Friday, October 22nd, 2004I’ve been invited to be a featured columnist in a new Linux magazine. Details are forthcoming. The only thing I’m allowed to say at this point is that if you are a regular reader of the leading Linux magazines then you’re likely to recognize the Editor-in-Chief of the new magazine (no, its not [...]
XNotesPlus updates
Thursday, October 21st, 2004I’ve moved the Future Plans page into the Wiki so I can more easily edit it. That lets me do design work from anywhere, and thus work a little bit more often on XNotesPlus than I have been.
Today I knocked off two more features from the 3.7 release. The first is [...]
Getting what you need when you need it.
Tuesday, October 19th, 2004Rob Pike was interviewed by Slashdot today. His replies to questions are extremely clear and lucid. And thought provoking.
One of the big insights in the last few years, through work by the internet search engines but also tools like Udi Manber’s glimpse, is that data with no meaningful structure can still be very [...]
Minimyth build – Alsa
Tuesday, October 19th, 2004The build system is coming along. Various reports of problems so far have been easy to fix although one report of really poor results on SuSE may be much more difficult to address. The goal is to make the MiniMyth build system run on any Linux platform on which MythTV works. As [...]
ColorMatch Remix
Friday, October 15th, 2004I was poking around the WP site looking at links to template and themes when I ran across a site with a link to ColorMatch Remix. Very cool. I’m not a trained artist – I’m a hacker with a hobby. So having access to tools like this is very useful. I [...]
Minimyth Build System commited
Thursday, October 14th, 2004Larry set up the Perforce repository and I checked in the build system tonight. There is still lots to do, though. Time to get back to work.
Since its been a couple of weeks since I worked on the build system (I had an article to get out for LinuxFormat and a tennis tournament [...]
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