Yearly Archives: 2007

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 6117 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 6139 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 6147 days ago)

This is a little bit of useless fun – you’ll need to find your own audio file to replace “kuku.au”: KUKU=`/bin/date +%I` while [ $KUKU -gt 0 ]; do eject /dev/cdrom cat /root/xxx/kuku.au > /dev/dsp eject -t /dev/cdrom KUKU=$((KUKU-1)) done Related posts No related posts.

“Time” for fun with your cd drive

Sat June 16, 2007 in Linux (updated 6182 days ago)

Watching the Democratic debate tonight, I listened when the candidates talked about how to cut the deficit. Several of the candidates talked about how to work on helping education. They also talked, of course, about the cost of the war. And I had a little thought. So I looked up […]

A simple calculation

Sun June 03, 2007 in Politics tagged Education

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 6208 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

My wife and I are planning this year's landscaping projects for our new home (we bought it last August). I thought a clever way to do that would be to run some landscaping software I bought a few years back. It's a Windows 98 application. I have a copy of […]

Getting a windows app running under Fedora Core 5

Sun March 18, 2007 in General / Linux tagged Fedora / Linux / MythTV / Video (updated 6271 days ago)

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 6256 days ago)

I just read a very good (and short) article on working with rootkit checker utilities. A rootkit is a set of tools that crackers (the evil doers) use to break into your system. Linux is just as vulnerable to this sort of thing as any other OS if the system […]

Linux Security: checking for rootkits and other evil doers

Tue March 06, 2007 in General / Linux tagged Fedora / Linux (updated 6284 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

I’d forgotten about this until I saw a post about it on a local Linux user group mailing list. The gist is to run: zdump -v America/Denver | grep 2007 for whatever timezone you are using. You should see Mar 11 in the output, not April something. Most recent Linux […]

Helpful tip: making sure your timezone is updated for ...

Mon March 05, 2007 in Linux tagged Linux (updated 6285 days ago)

Michael J. Hammel

Building a better today…because tomorrow is in question…