I just heard about this a few minutes ago: Roland Emmerich will be directing the film adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series. Emmerich directed hits like Independence Day and Stargate along with bombs like 10,000 BC. IMDB says he’s also in pre-production on a remake of Fantastic Voyage. A quick […]
If you’re like me and log into work from home, you should probably be using the AllowUsers option in your sshd_config at work. This option allows you to specify IP addresses that are allowed to login to your system. So, for example, I might have an entry like this: myUserid@192.168.1.* […]
Cutting down sshd logs
Judging from the most used searches and posts (thank you wordpress stats), interest in the Intel Xorg. driver is extremely high. While it’s easy to see that’s true on the X.org mailing list, looking at my own blog stats was the first time I realized other end users were having […]
Intel driver updates: 2.5.99.2 and 2.6.0, plus a little about ...
Long ago I slid my way into the Linux world by attending and taking an active part in two different Linux user groups in Denver. One of these is the Colorado Linux User Enthusiasts, or CLUE, which got its start in the south Denver metro area. This group remains very […]
An (oral) introduction to Asterisk – BLUG 1/8/09
I was reading various web sites today when I came across an article on ComputerWorld discussion the 5 best features of Linux 2.6.28. On of these items is GEM, the Graphics Execution Manager. This is a new architecture of sorts that allows for better X performance (in a nutshell). Why […]
F10 intel driver: a few more tidbits
My problems with the intel driver provided in the F10 distribution have been resolved. I had to compile the driver manually, along with the libdrm prerequisite, but it was rather painless and surprisingly easy to accomplish. MythTV is now happily serving up live TV and videos on my laptop monitor […]
F10 and xorg intel driver: solved
I’ve brought F10 up on my MythTV server and my laptop at home (with my dev server yet to be upgraded) so now it’s time to bring it up on my systems at work. The first box is a Dell Dimension 9150 which has a 64bit CPU. So after going […]
F10 64bit failure
I’m a constant tinkerer on my computers. While I hate system administration I like to experiment with things. But a computer is a virtual world. What you get is visual and (in some cases) auditory. You don’t get a hands on feeling. You don’t really build something substantial. I think […]
makezine.tv: Getting my fix of hands on projects
My displeasure grows with my latest upgrade. F10 on my laptop caused my firefox and evolution sessions to always start up in offline mode. I’m never in offline mode – I have a cable modem and I’m always connected to the Internet. So I wasn’t sure why things had changed. […]
Fedora 10 and Firefox upgrade complaints
6 Over the holidays I upgraded my laptop to Fedora 10 (previously I had only upgraded my MythTV server). The upgrade went fairly smoothly following the information from my previous post on upgrading a MythTV server to F10. However, my laptop supports dual monitors. Of course, that didn’t work out of […]
Fedora 10 issues with intel driver and multihead
I finally upgraded to WordPress 2.7 for both my personal blog and my book (the Artist’s Guide to the GIMP) web site. As part of the upgrade I switched both sites to a new theme: ByteTips. This theme is extremely clean when viewed in Firefox and seems to work well […]
WordPress updates
I’ve finally updated my Dept 56 galleries to include both 2007 and 2008 images. The new gallery software on the blog displays the galleries much better than the old software and makes it easier to upload and add captions. So I’ve retro-fitted captions to the old galleries to help describe […]