I’m in the process of revising my last book, The Artist’s Guide to GIMP Effects. It will take about a year, I’m guessing. To make sure its meaningful a little longer than the last version I’m working from the git repository. Git is the replacement for cvs and svn that […]
Yearly Archives: 2009
My daughter is heading off to college shortly and I’ve been informed that mother and daughter will be communicating via text messages. I disabled text messaging on my and my wife’s phones to prevent unwanted charges from dorks sending unwanted messages. Now I have to turn it back on. Oh […]
Getting new phones: argument for the Palm Pre = Linux ...
Another kernel upgrade, another VMware failure. This gets old. It used to be you patched using the vmware-any-to-any patches but these appear to have dried up. Now we have a new patching mechanism: google till you find someone who fixed the problem. Fortunately, someone fixed the problem for VMware Workstation […]
VMware Server 2.0.1 on linux 2.6.29
My Peek isn’t expected to get here till Saturday and I haven’t ordered the USB-to-Serial cable yet, but I will soon. However, while I wait for all that I’m digging into the links on the elinux.org/peek wiki. The link to the TI site for the TCS2310 (the main chip with […]
More Peek Research
I placed an order for a gray Peek from Amazon. The gray Peek’s are$2 less than the colored ones. Who needs a colored one for hacking? Anyway, it should arrive by Saturday. In the meantime I’ve been watching the videos and scanning online resources to learn about the internals of […]
Peek ordered, learning about the hardware
My previous posts on doing Fedora upgrades cover most of the topic but I realized there were a few things I left out. Installing additional applications The first thing has to do with some useful applications that Mauriat Miranda doesn’t cover on his excellent Fedora installation guidelines. xpdf – a […]
Upgrade addendum: other packages of interest, configuring a Wacom ...
I just wanted to brain dump a few things I thought were interesting and worth looking at more deeply. This is just so I don’t forget about them. Making KVM images I got this from Linux Journal’s August 2009 issue, in Serge Hallyn’s article on Making Root Unprivileged: qemu-img create […]
Interesting stuff, nothing major
I was researching why Battle of Britain would not auto-fill using the new tmdb.pl in MythTV’s Video Manager when I started a tail on the backend log. tail -f /var/log/mythbackend.log I got a bunch of these messages: 2009-07-07 20:09:22.069 Error: offset>181, pes length & current can not be queried According […]
MythTV: EIT errors in backend log and fixing Video Manager ...
2 With the upgrade to F11 I’ve discovered that when I install a DVD GNOME automatically mounts it with an option (right click on the desktop icon) for copying the DVD to an iso image. The ISO is typically 4-8GB which is roughly 3-4 times the size of the AVI files […]
Switching from AVI’s to DVD ISOs for use with MythTV
The terms of service apparently changed for imdb.com and the original imdb.pl script in MythTV that is used to retrieve data about movies (via the Video Manager) is no longer working properly. The results vary but in my case the director information was not be pulled properly. There is a […]
Update to MythVideo imdb.pl – getting the right metadata for ...
5 Fedora 11 was released this past week and I’ve already downloaded the various netinst and DVD ISO images for both 32bit and 64bit systems at home. I’ve got 5 computers to upgrade: 1 development server, 1 MythTV server, my desktop, 1 Myth client and my laptop. Since I’ve now […]
Preparing for Fedora 11: Installation on the Acer laptop
Someone asked on the Boulder Linux User Group mailing list today for recommendations for video cards. He wanted to avoid NVidia. One of the responses pointed out this very handy web site: 3D Graphics hardware performance using Free Software drivers (X.Org DRI). I noticed just recently that my NVidia GeForce […]