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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 6402 days ago)

I stumbled upon some IBM developerWorks articles this week that are short but informative. The first is on the Linux Kernel and the source code layout. It’s a nice introduction to the kernel for those who have a little background but aren’t really sure how things are structured in either […]

Interesting reading material

Mon August 20, 2007 in Linux / Software Development tagged Linux / Open Source (updated 6464 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 6486 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 6668 days ago)

Take a little, give a little. I’ve been working on a Java/JBOSS project for the past 6 months and part of that includes working with the Java Native Interface. One of the things I have to do, practically at gunpoint, is to make sure our Java clients run on Windows […]

Java / JNI

Fri January 05, 2007 in JNI / Software Development tagged graphics / java / jni / Linux

There are a lot of examples of writing a simple JNI library for calling from a Java class. Unfortunately, few of them explain how to push your JNI class/loadable library into a package of it’s own. I ran into this problem today while trying to integrate a JNI library I’d […]

Working with JNI

Wed November 22, 2006 in Software Development tagged java / jni / Linux / Writing (updated 6735 days ago)

The project I’m working on has a Java client that communicates with a JBOSS server. The client launches applications on the local host, communicates with them using XML and sends data from the applications back to the JBOSS server using JAX-RPC (via Axis, at the moment). In order to manage […]

Learning to hate Java

Fri November 17, 2006 in Software Development tagged java / jni / Writing (updated 6740 days ago)

I’m working on a Java project at work that has a TCP-based server component that accepts XML messages from clients. I implemented an XML handler that I pass to the SAXParser class that takes the XML as an input stream. The client sends the XML message and then waits for […]

Discovery of the TCP Half-Close

Wed November 15, 2006 in Linux / Software Development tagged java (updated 6740 days ago)

Rondam Ramblings: Top ten geek business myths is a blog from a guy named Ron Garret who's been there, done that, and wants the geeks of the world to know that the truth just aint what you think. I won't rehash the whole blog, but let me summarize: If you […]

Geek happiness != wealth

Sat October 07, 2006 in General / Linux / Software Development tagged dell / graphics / GTK+ / java / Linux / Open Source / Writing

I'm working on a project to build my own distribution based on Linux From Scratch . I've been trying to get Bootsplash to work with a LiveCD and a netboot version of the distribution. Unfortunately, using bootsplash with Linux kernel 2.6's initramfs is not well documented. Thus, I'm making notes […]

Using bootsplash with Linux kernel 2.6.x

Tue June 06, 2006 in Linux / Software Development tagged Linux (updated 6902 days ago)

My daily trauling of news sources today brought me around to this very old article: Evolution, not revolution, in PC’s future | CNET News.com. What I found interesting about the images of future PCs is that they all look like bad sci-fi props. Visionary design my buttocks. PCs will never […]

Evolution of the PC = no design whatsoever.

Thu March 03, 2005 in General / Linux / Software Development tagged epia / MythTV (updated 7364 days ago)

The only real problem with being unemployed (aside from the whole money thing) is that you have far too much time to think of new, time consuming projects. If you’re in this industry and you’re mind isn’t twisting and crunching every time some fresh topic flies by your eyes then […]

A simple plan: open source provisioning software

Thu March 03, 2005 in Linux / Software Development tagged epia / GTK+ / Linux / Open Source / Writing (updated 7365 days ago)

Michael J. Hammel

Building a better today…because tomorrow is in question…