Finding off the shelf supported hardware is a tough task for Linux. The problem with such lists is that they often include hardware that you can no longer purchase from retails outlets. So it’s easier to get a list of what the outlets have available and then search the list […]
As the year grows to a close I find myself finishing up projects and preparing for the new year. I put together roughly 90,000 lines of code this year on a single project with one other developer, probably split somewhere around 80/20. It is, as I’ve told him, our boss […]
Top ten things I’ve learned about software development
1 Migrations to new releases of Fedora are not a huge problem for me since I use a separate partition for system files (including repository managed packages) and separate partitions for home directories (/home), multimedia files (/store and /music), and web server root directories (also under /home). About the only […]
Migrating a MythTV server from pre-Fedora 10 to Fedora 10
If you hadn’t heard, Fedora and Red Hat systems had a break in of sorts that impacted their software repositories. I don’t quite understand the details but apparently nothing bad happened except that they need to create a new GPG key to sign their software packages. That means that all […]
The Fedora signing key issue – a plan for users
After installing F9 I had to go through the process of reinstalling all my old multimedia tools. Fedora doesn’t generally include support for playing MP3s or DVDs so you have to install them from alternate repositories such as Livna or ATrpms. I’d written up how to do this in the […]
Fedora 9 postinstall: multimedia dependencies, sounds and other annoyances
My Epson Style 740 finally gave out earlier this year, joining a Lexmark E210 laser printer that had given out before that. That left me without a printer (though my wife has two nice printers for her graphics design business). So I decided to get a low end model for […]
A new printer: Epson Style Photo R280
I’ve finally figured out how to get my external monitor working with my Acer Aspire 1691WLMi laptop in side-by-side mode. The trick is to use the Virtual option with a large enough x dimension. Most of the documentation I’ve found up till now has stated that making Virtual larger than […]
XRandr and Intel i915
I’ve gotten into the habit of skipping every other Fedora release since that lets me skip doing upgrades every year. I feel a little more productive that way. Most especially since I have lots of boxes at home doing special things (development, httpd staging, MythTV servers and frontends, etc). Well, […]
Fedora 9 upgrade but a GNOME downgrade
I made notes on my upgrade from 0.20 to 0.21. The software upgrade is clean but the runtime is somewhat broken on two of my three frontends. These are my (raw) notes. Upgrading to MythTV 0.21 All upgrading was done via the ATrpms repository which provided the previous release (0.20) […]
MythTV 0.21: problems with playback profiles
I keep running into this problem and I decided it was time to make notes on how I resolve it. The problem is that I’ve used the methods I’ve described previously to include missing multimedia support in Fedora 7 and when I do updates I run into this problem: Error: […]
Updating xine with DVD playback (or how to deal with ...
I found an interesting story online about a producer at CNN who got canned for blogging – mostly about stuff that didn’t pull the corporate line. It’s interesting to read from my point of view because it mirrors (to an extent) the pitiful way in which Dell treated its employees […]
Big media (along with corporate stupidity) must die, die, die.
A recent article about GNOME 2.22 included this brief mention: Totem 2.22 features plugins for YouTube and MythTV. The YouTube plug-in allows you to search and browse YouTube.com video files all within Totem. The MythTV plugin for GNOME allows you to view recordings from a MythTV server as well as […]