Archive for January, 2009
Using the Aiptek 12000U on Fedora 10
Saturday, January 31st, 2009Back in late 2006 I bought an Aiptek 12000U drawing tablet to work with GIMP. I had limited success back then and put the tablet back in the box. I pulled it out again the other night to give it another try. Without any additional configuration the wireless mouse worked on the tablet just fine. [...]
Reducing audio buzz for the average guy
Friday, January 30th, 2009The Boulder Linux User Group mailing list had a short but interesting discussions today. Karl Horlen asked how he could reduce a constant buzz he was receiving from his power amp/speaker connected to his laptop. The buzz only occurs when the power supply is plugged in. I found this problem interesting since I was getting [...]
A good sign: Obama’s robots.txt file
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009Wow. This is interesting. I found a comparison of the whitehouse.gov’s robots.txt file from the Bush administration vs. Obama’s. Looks like the new administration is a little less paranoid. Well, at least at the start of the administration. Let’s hope it stays that way.
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Using Xine with your MythTV videos: small screens while you work
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009I use GNOME or XFce for my desktop environments at home and work. In both places I tend to listen to movies while I work. I have a large collection of DVDs and even a larger collection of VHS tapes. The former are mostly ripped to disk now but the latter are a work in [...]
Quick Hit: Roland Emmerich to helm “Foundation”
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009I just heard about this a few minutes ago: Roland Emmerich will be directing the film adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series. Emmerich directed hits like Independence Day and Stargate along with bombs like 10,000 BC. IMDB says he’s also in pre-production on a remake of Fantastic Voyage.
A quick google search shows that this pairing [...]
Cutting down sshd logs
Monday, January 19th, 2009If you’re like me and log into work from home, you should probably be using the AllowUsers option in your sshd_config at work. This option allows you to specify IP addresses that are allowed to login to your system. So, for example, I might have an entry like this:
myUserid@192.168.1.*
which means that the userid myUserid can [...]
Intel driver updates: 2.5.99.2 and 2.6.0, plus a little about DRI2, Compiz and GEM
Saturday, January 17th, 2009Judging from the most used searches and posts (thank you wordpress stats), interest in the Intel Xorg. driver is extremely high. While it’s easy to see that’s true on the X.org mailing list, looking at my own blog stats was the first time I realized other end users were having issues getting the driver up [...]
An (oral) introduction to Asterisk – BLUG 1/8/09
Thursday, January 15th, 2009Long ago I slid my way into the Linux world by attending and taking an active part in two different Linux user groups in Denver. One of these is the Colorado Linux User Enthusiasts, or CLUE, which got its start in the south Denver metro area. This group remains very active and generally has a [...]
F10 intel driver: a few more tidbits
Saturday, January 10th, 2009I was reading various web sites today when I came across an article on ComputerWorld discussion the 5 best features of Linux 2.6.28. On of these items is GEM, the Graphics Execution Manager. This is a new architecture of sorts that allows for better X performance (in a nutshell). Why this is interesting comes from [...]
F10 and xorg intel driver: solved
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009My problems with the intel driver provided in the F10 distribution have been resolved. I had to compile the driver manually, along with the libdrm prerequisite, but it was rather painless and surprisingly easy to accomplish. MythTV is now happily serving up live TV and videos on my laptop monitor while I work on the [...]
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