Art and Graphics

How they integrate w/ computers.

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 6401 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 6405 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 6413 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 6456 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 6485 days ago)

I just released the companion website to my new GIMP book, The Artist’s Guide to GIMP Effects. I hope to make it a a place for general GIMP discussion along with tutorials and other useful end-user information. The book, which is a collection of tutorials similar to the Photoshop WOW! […]

The Artist’s Guide To GIMP Effects website goes live

Sat July 21, 2007 in GIMP / Writing tagged GIMP / graphics (updated 6493 days ago)

If you’re interested in the whole copyright law issue that seems to be the backbone (or spineless) matter for the DMCA, you gotta watch this little 10 minutes video. It’s called “A Fair(y) Use Tale”. It explains it all. With a chuckle. Just don’t try to follow the scenes. Just […]

What is fair use (or how I laughed at the ...

Mon May 21, 2007 in Art and Graphics / Education / Politics / TV / Video tagged Video (updated 6554 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 6602 days ago)

I recently saw some discussion on the Griffin PowerMate, a USB connected volume knob, and it’s use with GIMP. I’ve been trying to understand exactly why this would be useful. While it’s possible to map the features of the knob to various functions in the GIMP, it would require yet […]

Interesting device for use with GIMP

Tue March 06, 2007 in Art and Graphics / GIMP / Hardware / Linux tagged GIMP / graphics / Linux

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 6667 days ago)

I’ve been playing around with Wink to create Flash-based tutorials on the GIMP. My goal is to put some of these tutorials on my upcoming book’s companion web site. I created my first tutorial, mostly as a proof of concept for myself. It shows how you can make basic shapes. […]

Experimenting with Wink: Flash tutorials for GIMP

Wed January 17, 2007 in Art and Graphics / Education / GIMP / Linux tagged GIMP / graphics (updated 6679 days ago)

Michael J. Hammel

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