Yearly Archives: 2006

So someone in this big ol' planet found my little blog entry about the Hanso Foundation image and linked to it on Technorati. I followed a thread about this and found that at least a few people thought I was crazy and had no clue what I was talking […]

Fun with Lost, again.

Thu August 31, 2006 in Lost / TV tagged GIMP / graphics / Lost / Wordpress (updated 6977 days ago)

A previous post on working with Aiptek and Wacom Graphire4 drawing tablets drew the following response from Garett Harnish: While it isn't "out-of-the-box," here are instructions on how to get the Graphite4 working under linux. The instructions are for a distribution I've never heard of before, zenwalk, but they seem […]

Update on Wacom Graphire4 support

Wed August 30, 2006 in Hardware / Linux / Wacom tagged graphics / Linux / Wacom

My family and I spent the last month moving into a new home, and I'm just starting to get back to my day to day nerd activities. We moved to a rented house in Colorado last year for a job, but that job fizzled (worst managed project I've ever been […]

Catching up – again.

Wed August 30, 2006 in General

Working on an article for LWN.net late last night, I ran into what is apparently a well known problem. The Via Rhine driver in Linux will ocassionally disable the PXE firmware so netboots don't work anymore. I found the solution in an Linux Kernel archive early this morning. […]

EPIA-M 10000 netboot stops working

Sun June 25, 2006 in EPIA-M / Hardware / Via Motherboards tagged epia / Linux / lwn (updated 7058 days ago)

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 7075 days ago)

I was digging around the ABC website tonight after the season finale, rumaging through the forums. I found a link to The Lost Experience Blogspot and started reading. In there was a clue posted on the Hanso site (which I can’t read with Firefox for some reason – Arggghhh). There […]

Decoding a Hanso clue (re: fun with Lost)

Thu May 25, 2006 in Lost / TV / Writing tagged GIMP / graphics / Lost (updated 7090 days ago)

I posted a few new images and added more descriptive filenames to my GIMP Gallery.Â All of the new stuff is under the LinuxFormat and Logos pages.Â Nothing earth shattering.Â Just stuff I’ve been meaning to do for some time. I had to fix some bugs in my admin scripts […]

GIMP Gallery updates

Sun May 21, 2006 in Art and Graphics / GIMP tagged GIMP / graphics / Linux / linux format

See the Elephants Dream web site. This is kind of cool – a 3D animation created completely with open source tools. They’ve even included the production files for everyone to examine. The download is 99MB at it’s smallest resolution, or up to 450MB in other formats.Â They say it’s playable […]

Open Source Animation: Elephants Dream

Fri May 19, 2006 in Art and Graphics / Open Source tagged Open Source

See: Save the Internet : Fighting for Internet Freedom If you haven’t done so yet, you need to go to this site and sign the petitions. Remember that this is a non-partisan effort. You can also sign the petition at MoveOn.org. The Internet is one of the most equalizing aspects […]

Fighting for Internet Freedom: Moby, REM, Indigo Girls, Dixie ...

Fri May 19, 2006 in Politics tagged Video (updated 7095 days ago)

My daughter won the Colorado High School 4A State Championship for #2 Singles in tennis this past weekend. High school team tennis runs with 7 lines, with 3 singles lines (1-3) and 4 doubles (1-4). My daughter plays line 2, primarily because the state champion at line 1 is also […]

Linux video editing: Avidemux2

Fri May 19, 2006 in Audio / Linux / MythTV / Video tagged Fedora / graphics / Linux / MythTV / Video / yum (updated 7095 days ago)

This is something that I’ve been trying to figure out how to do for some time now. I finally was forced into it by upgrading my build server to FC5 (and merging with my staging server) at home. The process turns out to be fairly simple, but other than a […]

Migrating Evolution 1.4 to 2.x

Wed May 03, 2006 in General / Linux (updated 7112 days ago)

Iâ€™ve spent the past couple of weeks upgrading all my systems at home.Â My firewall is finally updated to a recent Linux distribution and I built a new staging/build server with lots of horsepower and disk space.Â I then migrated all the data from multiple machines onto the one staging […]

Migrations (Systems and “Evolution”)

Wed May 03, 2006 in General tagged graphics / Linux / Wordpress

Michael J. Hammel

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