There is a discussion ongoing in the GIMP Developer mailing list about rumors of the Ubuntu distribution removing GIMP from the base installation in an upcoming release. The reasoning is that GIMP is a professional application and should only be included as add-on software similar to how Photoshop is not […]
I just got word that another article of mine has been accepted by Linux Journal. It should be published in February with the Desktop focused issue. The article is on the various ways to access remote Linux applications and have them display locally. For those who don’t know: there is […]
Another LJ article in the pipe
I’ve publicly opened the XNotesNG project. The CVS, forums and related are on SourceForge but their policies for web services are restrictive to what I wanted to set up so I also registered xnotesng.org, set up a blog and wiki and pointed the SourceForge web stuff to that. The blog […]
Public opening of XNotesNG project
I’ve just read that Google has signed an agreement with Twitter to include tweets in their search results. Now, I think Google has done some pretty clever things so far such as Google Maps. But while I have no problem with Google adding features like this to their search engine, […]
Google oversearch
I’ve been having problems with my external USB drives used on my MythTV backend. The drives are no longer being recognized on bootup. This started happening after I added additional 500GB and 1TB drives to the system when there was already a 500GB drive. All of the drives are USB […]
Reviewing disk labels, problems with USB attached drives and running ...
My kiddo is off to a good start at Eastern Washington, where she’s playing tennis on scholoarship. She did great in doubles (that’s her in the photo) this past weekend to follow up an even better run in singles the weekend before. Go Eags!
Ryann struts her tennis stuff for EWU.
I stumbled upon an interesting site today: ohloh.net (recently acquired by SourceForge). I haven’t had a chance to look through it much yet but I noticed that the GIMP developers were listed in it. Actually, it was Martin Nordholts blog that pointed me to it. I’m preparing a new release […]
Tracking software projects
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 […]
Building GIMP from source
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 […]