Monthly Archives: April 2010

Today I released a complete rewrite of XNotesPlus, which I've renamed XNotesNG. This version was properly architected (well, mostly) and implemented in Java. Unlike other Java developers, I don't use IDEs like Eclipse or NetBeans. Instead, I rely on the tried and true tools of kernel developers: cscope and vi. […]

XNotesNG: XNotesPlus never dies, it just evolves

Tue April 27, 2010 in Fedora / General / GTK+ / java / Linux / SWT tagged calendar manager / cscope / GTK+ / java / java plugin / jpf / Linux / plugin api / rpm / XNotesNG / xnotesplus (updated 5129 days ago)

Good news: the wife okay’d the cable disconnect over lunch today. I’m going to look for ways to hook up antenna’s to the TV’s through out the house. I could hook it the incoming cable distribution box but I need that, at least for now, to keep the cable modem. […]

The General’s Approval

Tue April 27, 2010 in General (updated 5130 days ago)

Here in the armpit of America known as Colorado Springs we have one cable provider, Comcast, at least in the area we live in. For the past four years we've had Extended Basic Cable service for about $50/month with no cable boxes required. Two xmas's ago our "big" projection TV […]

Comcast is going bye-bye

Tue April 27, 2010 in General / Personal / TV tagged basic cable / cable box / cable boxes / cable provider / ClearQAM / colorado springs / Comcast / digital broadcast / digital channels / digital signal / digital signals / DirectTV / graphics / PBS (updated 5129 days ago)

I built an Ubuntu Server image this week because I needed to test an application we built at work would work without X.org and GTK+ installed. Turns out it does. That’s good. But in testing I got annoyed with the 80 character width of the console. See, Ubuntu Server doesn’t […]