I finally upgraded to WordPress 2.7 for both my personal blog and my book (the Artist’s Guide to the GIMP) web site. As part of the upgrade I switched both sites to a new theme: ByteTips. This theme is extremely clean when viewed in Firefox and seems to work well […]
Yearly Archives: 2008
I’ve finally updated my Dept 56 galleries to include both 2007 and 2008 images. The new gallery software on the blog displays the galleries much better than the old software and makes it easier to upload and add captions. So I’ve retro-fitted captions to the old galleries to help describe […]
Dept 56 galleries for 2008
Finding off the shelf supported hardware is a tough task for Linux. The problem with such lists is that they often include hardware that you can no longer purchase from retails outlets. So it’s easier to get a list of what the outlets have available and then search the list […]
Linux Hardware Compatibility – getting started with off the shelf ...
As the year grows to a close I find myself finishing up projects and preparing for the new year. I put together roughly 90,000 lines of code this year on a single project with one other developer, probably split somewhere around 80/20. It is, as I’ve told him, our boss […]
Top ten things I’ve learned about software development
1 Migrations to new releases of Fedora are not a huge problem for me since I use a separate partition for system files (including repository managed packages) and separate partitions for home directories (/home), multimedia files (/store and /music), and web server root directories (also under /home). About the only […]
Migrating a MythTV server from pre-Fedora 10 to Fedora 10
If you hadn’t heard, Fedora and Red Hat systems had a break in of sorts that impacted their software repositories. I don’t quite understand the details but apparently nothing bad happened except that they need to create a new GPG key to sign their software packages. That means that all […]
The Fedora signing key issue – a plan for users
After installing F9 I had to go through the process of reinstalling all my old multimedia tools. Fedora doesn’t generally include support for playing MP3s or DVDs so you have to install them from alternate repositories such as Livna or ATrpms. I’d written up how to do this in the […]
Fedora 9 postinstall: multimedia dependencies, sounds and other annoyances
My Epson Style 740 finally gave out earlier this year, joining a Lexmark E210 laser printer that had given out before that. That left me without a printer (though my wife has two nice printers for her graphics design business). So I decided to get a low end model for […]
A new printer: Epson Style Photo R280
I’ve finally figured out how to get my external monitor working with my Acer Aspire 1691WLMi laptop in side-by-side mode. The trick is to use the Virtual option with a large enough x dimension. Most of the documentation I’ve found up till now has stated that making Virtual larger than […]
XRandr and Intel i915
I’ve gotten into the habit of skipping every other Fedora release since that lets me skip doing upgrades every year. I feel a little more productive that way. Most especially since I have lots of boxes at home doing special things (development, httpd staging, MythTV servers and frontends, etc). Well, […]
Fedora 9 upgrade but a GNOME downgrade
I made notes on my upgrade from 0.20 to 0.21. The software upgrade is clean but the runtime is somewhat broken on two of my three frontends. These are my (raw) notes. Upgrading to MythTV 0.21 All upgrading was done via the ATrpms repository which provided the previous release (0.20) […]
MythTV 0.21: problems with playback profiles
I keep running into this problem and I decided it was time to make notes on how I resolve it. The problem is that I’ve used the methods I’ve described previously to include missing multimedia support in Fedora 7 and when I do updates I run into this problem: Error: […]