I just got word that another article of mine has been accepted by Linux Journal. It should be published in February with the Desktop focused issue. The article is on the various ways to access remote Linux applications and have them display locally. For those who don’t know: there is […]
General
I’ve publicly opened the XNotesNG project. The CVS, forums and related are on SourceForge but their policies for web services are restrictive to what I wanted to set up so I also registered xnotesng.org, set up a blog and wiki and pointed the SourceForge web stuff to that. The blog […]
Public opening of XNotesNG project
My kiddo is off to a good start at Eastern Washington, where she’s playing tennis on scholoarship. She did great in doubles (that’s her in the photo) this past weekend to follow up an even better run in singles the weekend before. Go Eags!
Ryann struts her tennis stuff for EWU.
I stumbled upon an interesting site today: ohloh.net (recently acquired by SourceForge). I haven’t had a chance to look through it much yet but I noticed that the GIMP developers were listed in it. Actually, it was Martin Nordholts blog that pointed me to it. I’m preparing a new release […]
Tracking software projects
I just wanted to brain dump a few things I thought were interesting and worth looking at more deeply. This is just so I don’t forget about them. Making KVM images I got this from Linux Journal’s August 2009 issue, in Serge Hallyn’s article on Making Root Unprivileged: qemu-img create […]
Interesting stuff, nothing major
I’ve noticed a lot of searches on xrandr in my blog stats and have been wondering what the problem is. Xrandr is a command line tool for enabling or disabling multiple display ports on your system as well as setting display resolution and even rotation. You would use it, for […]
Using xrandr with external display ports
6 Back 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 […]
Using the Aiptek 12000U on Fedora 10
I finally upgraded to WordPress 2.7 for both my personal blog and my book (the Artist’s Guide to the GIMP) web site. As part of the upgrade I switched both sites to a new theme: ByteTips. This theme is extremely clean when viewed in Firefox and seems to work well […]
WordPress updates
1 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
I found an interesting story online about a producer at CNN who got canned for blogging – mostly about stuff that didn’t pull the corporate line. It’s interesting to read from my point of view because it mirrors (to an extent) the pitiful way in which Dell treated its employees […]
Big media (along with corporate stupidity) must die, die, die.
It’s interesting to find old friends and coworkers reading my blog, mostly since I write it for myself and really don’t expect anyone else to read it. But I guess a few do. So it was a pleasant surprise to hear from Charlie Sauer today. Charlie was director of product […]
Another look back: the history of Dell Unix
I’ve upgraded pretty much all my systems, both at home and at work, to F7 now. I’m not completely pleased with it – the issues with the intel driver on my laptop are still a problem. But something that is more prevalent across all machines is general, perceived performance. I […]