Yearly Archives: 2013

Needed some place to note this short one-liner for generating a changelog between version releases with git. git log v0.5...v0.6 --pretty=format:'%s' The output looks something like this. RM #225: Fix xcc to build when gmp is already installed. This is a back-rev'd patch from Crosstool-NG that required no changes so […]

git changelog generation: one liner

Sun October 27, 2013 in General

Okay, so working alone you often find yourself falling behind the curve. I just got my DisplayLink working the other night and today I found this little device – a 2.8" TFT resistive touch screen for the Pi. This is a much better solution than the DisplayLink for the trailer. […]

DisplayLink vs TFT resistive touch screen for PiBox

Wed August 21, 2013 in Hardware / Raspberry Pi tagged displaylink / graphics / prototype / resistive touch screen (updated 3913 days ago)

A while back I made an official 0.5.0 release for PiBox which I announced on the Raspberry Pi Forums. Since then I've made significant advances in preparing PiBox for use as a media server in my travel trailer. Some of the features I've recently implemented include: Support for running as […]

PiBox: 0.5.0 released, many new features since

Mon August 19, 2013 in Hardware / Linux / omapfb / PiBox / Raspberry Pi / X11 / XBMC (updated 3913 days ago)

NOTE: This doesn't work! It's missing all my recent saved mail. Evolution saves the newer stuff in individual files with a ",S" suffix in a different directory. Ugh. I have Evolution. My Fedora 19 upgrade at work has gone badly. I've reinstalled twice, back peddled to F18 (which didn't work […]

Evolution out, Thunderbird in (or how to migrate the quickly ...

Mon August 19, 2013 in Fedora / Linux tagged evolution / thunderbird (updated 3915 days ago)

I'm still a Fedora user, even after years of releases that seem to cause more headaches than they solve. I understand it's a bleeding edge distro. But at the current rate of change it's bound to bleed out by the end of the year. Systemd is a pain for me […]

F19 upgrade: is this really getting better?

Tue August 06, 2013 in Fedora / GTK+ / Linux / NVidia / PulseAudio / X11 / XFce

First, let me say that the fire is long gone and we were never evacuated. It was stressful waiting around for them to decide if we needed to go or not, but in the end the fire moved away from us and not closer to us. Now we have everything […]

PiBox: Another long break ends and new work begins

Sun July 07, 2013 in General / Linux / PiBox / Raspberry Pi (updated 3958 days ago)

The Black Forest Fire is north and east of us. We’re currently in voluntary evacuation mode, which is the second level of evacuation out of three. Next mode is mandatory. However, we’re on the far south side of the box that marks the voluntary evacuation. And we’ve got a lot […]

Fire update – yeah, we’re close

Wed June 12, 2013 in General (updated 3983 days ago)

Nicholas Copernicus. I mention this only because I often name computers after scientists, physicists and engineers. Over the years I’ve had a number of systems named copernicus. Related posts No related posts.

Happy Birthday…

Tue February 19, 2013 in General (updated 4096 days ago)

I mentioned in a previous post that my wife got me some more old books this past holiday. Last year she got me Pat and the Iron Horse, the first book I remember reading as a kid. This year, she found me some Big Little Books similar to the one […]

Big Little Books

Sat February 16, 2013 in Art and Graphics / General / Personal tagged christmas story / graphics / holiday / little books

After buying a variety of Wifi dongles (to use separately on a Pi, BeagleBoard and APC at the same time), a collection of USB extenders, three different keyboards, an extra powered USB hub and two new Raspberry Pi’s (which showed up unexpectedly yesterday even though Element14 made me think they […]

USB magic

Tue January 22, 2013 in General (updated 4124 days ago)

If you’re playing with the idea of getting into embedded Linux, you might start with the most basic question: what does embedded Linux mean? In the not so distant past that was a little easier to define. An embedded board was typically physically smaller or at least used a very […]

What makes it embedded Linux?

Thu January 17, 2013 in BeagleBoard / BeagleBox / PiBox / XBMC / XBMC (updated 4129 days ago)

I’ve finally got a build for PiBox that supports a proper XBMC build. The latter took some finagling to force a cross compile that didn’t pick up any bits and pieces from the build system. So it’s all checked in and the builds placed on the SD card and it’s […]

PiBox / BeagleBox update: lost keyboard access?

Tue January 15, 2013 in BeagleBoard / BeagleBox / PiBox / XBMC (updated 4129 days ago)

Michael J. Hammel

Building a better today…because tomorrow is in question…