Archive for January, 2010
virsh/libvirt error: failed to connect to the hypervisor
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010I'm working with libvirtd/virt-manager/qemu at work. I have a bunch of F11 systems installed and working just fine. Today I tried one of the extra lab boxes, same OS config, but when I tried to use the virt-* commands I'd get an error:
mjhammel(tty0)$ sudo virsh –connect qemu:///system
error: failed to connect to the hypervisor
It took quite [...]
LXF releases PDFs of a bunch of my tutorials
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010It’s a good thing I check my blog stats otherwise I never would have known about this. Linux Format has released, through TuxRadar, the PDFs for 18 of my GIMP tutorials from my column in their magazine. Pretty cool. I’d always hoped they’d get a wider net audience. Too bad I can’t put them on [...]
New slide presentation with audio: Crunch Cloud
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010I've posted a page linking to my Slideshare presentation on Crunch Cloud, a product my company (or rather the software group) is working on. This presentation has the added bonus of audio – my voice reading from a script I wrote for the slides. Kind of a cool process to create one of those, though [...]
Creating slides with audio on Linux for SlideShare
Monday, January 18th, 2010I'm in the process of creating a set of slides at work to describe a software product we're working on. Making slides is easy. I just use OpenOffice. Publicizing the slides is just as easy. I use Slideshare.net. An interesting feature of this site is the ability to add audio to each slide after you've [...]
3D vision – get over it already
Friday, January 15th, 2010The movie industry inundated us with 3D this past holiday season. If you didn't catch Jim Carey's take on Dickens, you didn't miss much. My wife and I saw it in 2D, sans glasses. Turns out the movie is a flop if you're not into being wowed by 3D tricks. Without the glasses you're treated [...]
Hating RTF
Thursday, January 14th, 2010I’m was working on the 2nd edition of The Artists Guide to GIMP Effects tonight when I ran into an ugly bug. The documents I exchange with my publisher are in RTF format, possibly because its easier for them on the production side though I’m not positive of that. Anyway, I’ve been editing these with [...]
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