Yearly Archives: 2005

My old IBM iSeries 2611-412 finallybit the dust today. Strange that I was looking into buying a new laptop anyway, but right after I decided not to buy one, the PCMCIA slots died. While I might eventually get these working again, this system is 6+ years old and ready to […]

A new laptop – Acer Aspire 1690

Sat June 04, 2005 in Acer Aspire 1690i / Hardware / Linux tagged acer / aspire / Fedora / gnome / graphics / intel / Linux / rpm / Video / X11 (updated 7442 days ago)

Daniel Lyons interview of Larry McVoy might raise the wrath of open source purists, but he raises some good points about the difficulty in building a software business around open source ideals. Unfortunately, his conclusions based on his own experience with those difficulties don’t quite stand up to inspection. Open […]

Not quite heretic, but not quite right, either.

Thu May 26, 2005 in Linux tagged dell / GIMP / graphics / Linux / mysql / MythTV / Open Source (updated 7595 days ago)

Since my last entry the world has moved a little for me. It moved me to Colorado Springs, Colorado. I’m here with yet another company (I’ve lost count now how many that makes) to provide my skills as a Linux professional. I’m coding – a little. I’m running lots of […]

Where in the world is ….

Tue May 24, 2005 in General tagged Linux / linux format / Lost / Open Source / Writing (updated 7606 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 7688 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 7689 days ago)

My new book on GIMP is going well so far. I’ve received a template with styles for OpenOffice from the publisher that I need to use. Up to this point I’ve been doing everything in vi. They probably wouldn’t appreciate the book being submitted that way, though I do get […]

The book writing process

Sun February 27, 2005 in Art and Graphics / General / Writing tagged GIMP / Lost / Writing

I completed the port of the Graphics Muse Tools to GIMP 2.2.3 and GTK+ 2.6. The former required only a few minor changes to the use of layer and image menus (primarily) while the latter was more involved. Fortunately, most of this involved changing things like gtk_signal_connect to g_signal_connect. And […]

GIMP, porting, and XSane

Thu February 24, 2005 in Art and Graphics / Linux / Software Development tagged GIMP / graphics / GTK+ / ximba (updated 7696 days ago)

When I first encountered WordPress, I already had a blog package written (XIMBlog) for my own personal use. I used that blog as a lab notebook, both at home and at work (well, mylast job anyway). Maintaining yet another software package just didn’t appeal to me so I switched to […]

On blogging.

Thu February 24, 2005 in General tagged gnome / Wordpress

The job hunt continues. I’ve had an interview with Amazon that didn’t go well. Some kid screening for a group he didn’t even work for (and didn’t even know what group it was) asked me to explain how to write a function to compute a fibonaci sequence and make it […]

Looking for work

Fri January 28, 2005 in General tagged Open Source

I’ve finished XNotesPlus 3.7.0, which is the last in the GTK+ 1.2 line of releases. I’ve posted the release and updated the web site but haven’t announced it on Freshmeat. I guess I should do that soon. The next step for XNotesPlus is to port it to GTK+ 2.x. This […]

On porting…

Fri January 28, 2005 in Linux / Software Development tagged GIMP / graphics / GTK+ / xnotesplus

Since mylast entry RLXTechnologies has folded, leaving me (yet again) on the job hunt. They aren’t actually shut down but they cut 80% of the staff. The hardware guys up in Portland got picked up by Intel, so I’ve been told. I’m not sure how manyfrom my group are left […]

As the stomach churns…

Thu January 13, 2005 in General / Linux / Software Development tagged dell / epia / graphics / holiday / intel / Linux / linux format / mysql / MythTV / Open Source / Writing (updated 7737 days ago)

Michael J. Hammel

Building a better today…because tomorrow is in question…