I found an interesting story online about a producer at CNN who got canned for blogging – mostly about stuff that didn’t pull the corporate line. It’s interesting to read from my point of view because it mirrors (to an extent) the pitiful way in which Dell treated its employees […]
Yearly Archives: 2008
A recent article about GNOME 2.22 included this brief mention: Totem 2.22 features plugins for YouTube and MythTV. The YouTube plug-in allows you to search and browse YouTube.com video files all within Totem. The MythTV plugin for GNOME allows you to view recordings from a MythTV server as well as […]
MythTV in GNOME and Maemo
I got an interesting question the other day that I thought might be of value to the general public. The requestor thought there might be a problem with the Linux scheduler, but that really wasn’t the issue: I’m using FEDORA 7 at work and I have run into a problem […]
Sockets vs pipes vs ordinary files
I tend to work very much to myself on projects. I get help from the open source community via discussion forums or mailing lists, but in-house (at work or at home) I’m pretty much on my own to figure things out. This has led to some development practices which work […]
Debuggers vs debug libraries
It’s interesting to find old friends and coworkers reading my blog, mostly since I write it for myself and really don’t expect anyone else to read it. But I guess a few do. So it was a pleasant surprise to hear from Charlie Sauer today. Charlie was director of product […]