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I’ve added some slide presentations, with the help of Slideshare.net, to the Writings section. There is a presentation on using PmWiki for Project Management and a presentation on using WordPress as a CMS. I’ve also added a slide presentation on my book site on GIMP and Linux in Hollywood. Comments, […]

Online slide presentations

Sun February 01, 2009 in Art and Graphics / Linux / Open Source / Wordpress tagged cms / GIMP / graphics / hollywood / Linux / pmwiki / project management / slide presentations / Wordpress / Writing

I 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 […]

Using Xine with your MythTV videos: small screens while you ...

Wed January 21, 2009 in Art and Graphics / Linux / Movies / MythTV / Open Source / TV / Video / X11 tagged desktop environments / f10 / Fedora / firefox / GIMP / gnome / livna / MythTV / nfs / rpm / vhs tapes / Video / xfce / xine

Finding off the shelf supported hardware is a tough task for Linux. The problem with such lists is that they often include hardware that you can no longer purchase from retails outlets. So it’s easier to get a list of what the outlets have available and then search the list […]

Linux Hardware Compatibility – getting started with off the shelf ...

Thu December 18, 2008 in Fedora / Hardware / Linux / MythTV / Open Source / Video / X11 tagged epson / Fedora / games / GIMP / gnome / graphics / hauppauge / intel / ivtv / kde / Linux / multimedia / MythTV / nvidia / Open Source / printing / Video / wifi / xrandr (updated 5603 days ago)

My Epson Style 740 finally gave out earlier this year, joining a Lexmark E210 laser printer that had given out before that. That left me without a printer (though my wife has two nice printers for her graphics design business). So I decided to get a low end model for […]

A new printer: Epson Style Photo R280

Thu August 14, 2008 in Fedora / Linux / Open Source tagged epson / Fedora / GIMP / gnome / graphics / Linux / printing / r280 / rpm / yum (updated 5736 days ago)

I’m finally getting back to using my Epia M10000 board as a MythTV frontend. The goal here is to configure it to run with a CF card for booting and a wireless card to communicate with the backend, and use the TV-output connected to our TV in the living room. […]

Bringing up MiniMyth on an EPIA M10000 using wireless

Sun October 21, 2007 in EPIA-M / Hardware / Linux / MythTV / Open Source / Software Development / Via Motherboards tagged epia / Fedora / graphics / Linux / MythTV / Video / wifi (updated 6034 days ago)

My main system at work is up to date now, thanks to some help with missing multimedia tools and various other applications. Two sites helped with this: The Fedora 7 Installation Guide and Fedora 7: Installing multimedia Support. Both are well written and very helpful, but not absolutely complete. Neither […]

Fedora 7: The missing applications

Wed October 17, 2007 in Linux / Open Source tagged atrpms / Fedora / graphics / livna / multimedia / rpm / yum (updated 6039 days ago)

Well, I’m getting further along. I now understand how to use the intel driver better, well enough to setup dual head dynamically using xrandr. But there is a serious limitation that makes me think either the Intel guys don’t understand X11 or there is a shift in Xorg away from […]

i915GM/Fedora 7: Dual head success with intel driver, but ...

Tue October 09, 2007 in Hardware / Linux / MythTV / Open Source / X11 tagged Fedora / gdm / gnome / graphics / intel / MythTV / Video / X11 / xrandr (updated 6047 days ago)

So we here lots about how IBM is a big supporter of the Linux OS. Granted, “Linux” is different than “Linux distribution”, but let’s not mince words here. IBM says they support it all. And mostly, they do. Unless you want to look at the Live Scores on the US […]

Does IBM really support Linux and open source? I ...

Mon August 27, 2007 in General / Linux / Open Source / sports tagged Linux / Open Source (updated 6089 days ago)

My sister needed me to pull some pictures off her digital camera so we could place an ad in our parents home paper for their 50th wedding anniversary. Unfortunately, she didn’t have the USB cable for the camera. However, the camera had an SD card. And my Acer Aspire 1691WLMi […]

Getting the Acer Aspire 1691 SD slot working under Fedora ...

Sat July 28, 2007 in Acer Aspire 1690i / Hardware / Linux / Open Source / Software Development tagged acer / aspire / Fedora / graphics / Linux / rpm / ubuntu (updated 6118 days ago)

Our Linksys WRT54G router at home started acting up the other day. My wife’s web site had problems delivering image galleries. We’d get about 4 thumbnails downloaded and then the connections seem to go away and the page would never completely load in the browser. I couldn’t find the exact […]

Upgrading a WRT54G’s firmware to DD-WRT

Sun March 18, 2007 in Hardware / Open Source tagged Linux / Open Source / wrt54g

I was trying to install a package on an FC5 box at home today and discovered that yum was being uncooperative. Well, I blame it on yum but it was actually rpm. There were no error messages, no indication at all that something was wrong. It just hung. I noticed […]

How to fix a yum when it hangs with no ...

Sat March 17, 2007 in Linux / Open Source tagged atrpms / Fedora / Linux / rpm / yum (updated 6235 days ago)

This year’s Libre Graphics Meeting is taking shape, with a temporary website posted. The official domain is being readied and the web site will be transferred there later. The LGM is a conference for artists and developers who work with open source graphics tools such as the GIMP, Inkscape and […]

LGM 2007: Libre Graphics Meeting, Montreal

Sun January 28, 2007 in Art and Graphics / GIMP / Linux / Open Source / Software Development tagged GIMP / graphics / Open Source (updated 6300 days ago)

Michael J. Hammel

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