Monthly Archives: October 2004

My daughter taught us a new slang term the other day: The Hoodlands. That’s the nickname the kids have given to the area we live in, known more commonly as The Woodlands which is a northern Houston suburb. I’m not clear on why the kids call it that, though my […]

Hiding in the Hoodlands

Sat October 30, 2004 in Politics tagged Video (updated 7130 days ago)

I’m working on part II of a two-part series on using GIMP and PHP to create an online gallery for LinuxFormat. The first part was writing a script that could be run on a directory full of images to generate thumbnails in both grayscale (actually, 24-bit destarutated) and color. That […]

Gallery Article

Sat October 30, 2004 in General tagged GIMP / graphics / Linux / Writing (updated 7130 days ago)

I’m making progress – the kernel modules all load now. I had to switch to RH’s insmod from Busybox’s because translucency.o won’t load with BusyBox’s. That means all insmod’s need -r now and all modprobe’s don’t work (they got switched to insmod’s). But that pretty much matches what Larry did […]

MythTV segfaults when starting LiveTV

Sun October 24, 2004 in Linux / Software Development tagged MythTV

The via_v4l_drv.o module is available and the init.sh script should be loading it, but apparently it didn’t get loaded – maybe the load order is wrong. Anyway, once that module is loaded then /dev/video2, which makes me think MythTV will be happier and possibly run now. I think I just […]

MythTV: via_v4l_drv not loading

Sat October 23, 2004 in Linux / Software Development tagged MythTV / Video (updated 5765 days ago)

I’ve been invited to be a featured columnist in a new Linux magazine. Details are forthcoming. The only thing I’m allowed to say at this point is that if you are a regular reader of the leading Linux magazines then you’re likely to recognize the Editor-in-Chief of the new magazine […]

A new gig

Fri October 22, 2004 in Linux / Writing tagged GIMP / graphics / Linux / Writing

I’ve moved the Future Plans page into the Wiki so I can more easily edit it. That lets me do design work from anywhere, and thus work a little bit more often on XNotesPlus than I have been. Today I knocked off two more features from the 3.7 release. The […]

XNotesPlus updates

Thu October 21, 2004 in Linux / Software Development tagged xnotesplus

Rob Pike was interviewed by Slashdot today. His replies to questions are extremely clear and lucid. And thought provoking. One of the big insights in the last few years, through work by the internet search engines but also tools like Udi Manber’s glimpse, is that data with no meaningful structure […]

Getting what you need when you need it.

Tue October 19, 2004 in Linux / Software Development (updated 7142 days ago)

The build system is coming along. Various reports of problems so far have been easy to fix although one report of really poor results on SuSE may be much more difficult to address. The goal is to make the MiniMyth build system run on any Linux platform on which MythTV […]

Minimyth build – Alsa

Tue October 19, 2004 in Linux / Software Development tagged debian / Fedora / Linux / MythTV / suse (updated 7142 days ago)

I was poking around the WP site looking at links to template and themes when I ran across a site with a link to ColorMatch Remix. Very cool. I’m not a trained artist – I’m a hacker with a hobby. So having access to tools like this is very useful. […]

ColorMatch Remix

Fri October 15, 2004 in Art and Graphics (updated 7113 days ago)

Larry set up the Perforce repository and I checked in the build system tonight. There is still lots to do, though. Time to get back to work. Since its been a couple of weeks since I worked on the build system (I had an article to get out for LinuxFormat […]

Minimyth Build System commited

Thu October 14, 2004 in Linux / Software Development tagged Linux (updated 7146 days ago)

It’s hard to believe that there are any undecided voters left in the U.S. To not know who you believe would make the best president is to not be passionate about life itself. While I can’t side with Republican ideals, I do believe they are passionate about what they believe […]

Mistakes were made. Heads will roll.

Tue October 12, 2004 in Politics tagged Lost / Politics (updated 5765 days ago)

Larry Matter contacted me about integrating my build system with his MiniMyth project. He’s setting up source code control using an open source licensed version of Perforce. When its ready I’ll check in my build tools and we’ll start working together from there. There is lots to do, not the […]

Minimyth Build System

Tue October 12, 2004 in Linux / Software Development tagged Open Source

Michael J. Hammel

Building a better today…because tomorrow is in question…