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Santa, in the form of my wife and daughter, really came through this year.  Ry got me a Dell ST2010 HDMI monitor to use with my BeagleBoard.  I think she saw the mammoth CRT TV I had hooked up to it and thought I deserved something more modern.  I have […]

Happy Holiday: Lilliput and HDMI monitors, another WD archive





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I’m a constant tinkerer on my computers.  While I hate system administration I like to experiment with things.  But a computer is a virtual world.  What you get is visual and (in some cases) auditory.  You don’t get a hands on feeling.  You don’t really build something substantial.  I think […]

makezine.tv: Getting my fix of hands on projects



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Over the holidays I upgraded my laptop to Fedora 10 (previously I had only upgraded my MythTV server).  The upgrade went fairly smoothly following the information from my previous post on upgrading a MythTV server to F10.  However, my laptop supports dual monitors.  Of course, that didn’t work out of […]

Fedora 10 issues with intel driver and multihead



As the year grows to a close I find myself finishing up projects and preparing for the new year.  I put together roughly 90,000 lines of code this year on a single project with one other developer, probably split somewhere around 80/20.  It is, as I’ve told him, our boss […]

Top ten things I’ve learned about software development



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Migrations to new releases of Fedora are not a huge problem for me since I use a separate partition for system files (including repository managed packages) and separate partitions for home directories (/home), multimedia files (/store and /music), and web server root directories (also under /home).   About the only […]

Migrating a MythTV server from pre-Fedora 10 to Fedora 10