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Despite the obvious geek bent of my blog it would appear, based on web stats, that once a year I'm far more popular for my Deptartment 56 village setups than I am for Linux and open source. The spike in visitors isn't huge but its obvious and they're all headed […]

Less Geek, More Art

Fri November 27, 2009 in Art and Graphics / dept 56 / General tagged Department 56 / dept56 / dickens / Geek / Lemax / village

I’ve opened a little shop on CafePress called Go Geek Early. I’ve made a few small designs and I’m working on some more. This is just a way to generate a little extra cash to help, for example, get my kid a beater car while she’s up at college. It’s […]

CafePress: Go Geek Early

Mon November 23, 2009 in Art and Graphics / General / GIMP / Open Source / Personal tagged CafePress / Geek

I’ve added copies of the final image from each of the last four tutorials I did for Linux Format’s GIMP column. These are the last of the series, as Linux Format is putting the coumn to sleep for now. They said it might come back later. For now, however, I’ll […]

LXF Gallery updated and updating my

Sun November 22, 2009 in Art and Graphics / GIMP / Linux / Open Source / Writing tagged GIMP / Linux / linux format

I’m in the process of revising my last book, The Artist’s Guide to GIMP Effects. It will take about a year, I’m guessing. To make sure its meaningful a little longer than the last version I’m working from the git repository. Git is the replacement for cvs and svn that […]

Building GIMP from source

Wed September 02, 2009 in Art and Graphics / GIMP tagged cvs / GIMP / gimp developers / graphics / svn

Someone asked on the Boulder Linux User Group mailing list today for recommendations for video cards. He wanted to avoid NVidia. One of the responses pointed out this very handy web site: 3D Graphics hardware performance using Free Software drivers (X.Org DRI). I noticed just recently that my NVidia GeForce […]

3D graphics hardware for Linux

Wed April 29, 2009 in GIMP / Linux / NVidia / Wacom / X11 tagged Fedora / GIMP / nvidia / nvidia geforce / Wacom / X11

I was reading Slashdot this morning and ran across a link to a story about the Internet instability last week caused by minor bugs in two routers that propagated across the planet in something like 30 seconds. While the story itself is interesting (a good read if you’re into how […]

The Internet needs no bailout

Sun February 22, 2009 in Open Source / Politics / Security / Software Development tagged bailout / internet instability / open protocols / Open Source / proprietary solutions / renesys / routers / software implementation

I’ve been using the SANE backends with the XSane plugin for GIMP for many years now, but because of digital photography I don’t seem to need the scanner much these days. When we got the senior photos for my daughter, however, I needed a way to make a few copies […]

Setting up scanners under Fedora 10

Sun February 15, 2009 in Art and Graphics / Fedora / GIMP / Linux / Scanners tagged epson / Epson Perfection 1260 / Fedora / GIMP / graphics / Linux / rpm / sane / Scanners / xsane (updated 5555 days ago)

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

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

Sat January 31, 2009 in Aiptek Tablet / Art and Graphics / Fedora / General / GIMP / Hardware / Linux / Wacom tagged aiptek 12000u / drawing tablets / Fedora / GIMP / graphics / input drivers / Wacom / wireless mouse

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 5608 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 5741 days ago)

Michael J. Hammel

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