It’s that time again. Time to upgrade all the servers in the house (and at work, probably early next month) to the latest Fedora release. I started with my MythTV server since it only serves two purposes: run as the MythTV backend and run BOINC. I jumped into this a […]
So we here lots about how IBM is a big supporter of the Linux OS. Granted, “Linux” is different than “Linux distribution”, but let’s not mince words here. IBM says they support it all. And mostly, they do. Unless you want to look at the Live Scores on the US […]
Does IBM really support Linux and open source? I ...
I've been hearing quite a bit about Michael Vick being charged with dogfighting. It's disgusting to think anyone would allow such a thing to happen. It's cruelty beyond belief. It's barbaric. For his actions, Michael Vick should be banned from the priviledge of playing sport for money. Permanently. Now I […]
Boycott the NFL (Vick) and NBA (Marbury): Dogfighting is ...
I stumbled upon some IBM developerWorks articles this week that are short but informative. The first is on the Linux Kernel and the source code layout. It’s a nice introduction to the kernel for those who have a little background but aren’t really sure how things are structured in either […]
Interesting reading material
My sister needed me to pull some pictures off her digital camera so we could place an ad in our parents home paper for their 50th wedding anniversary. Unfortunately, she didn’t have the USB cable for the camera. However, the camera had an SD card. And my Acer Aspire 1691WLMi […]
Getting the Acer Aspire 1691 SD slot working under Fedora ...
I just released the companion website to my new GIMP book, The Artist’s Guide to GIMP Effects. I hope to make it a a place for general GIMP discussion along with tutorials and other useful end-user information. The book, which is a collection of tutorials similar to the Photoshop WOW! […]
The Artist’s Guide To GIMP Effects website goes live
This is a little bit of useless fun – you’ll need to find your own audio file to replace “kuku.au”: KUKU=`/bin/date +%I` while [ $KUKU -gt 0 ]; do eject /dev/cdrom cat /root/xxx/kuku.au > /dev/dsp eject -t /dev/cdrom KUKU=$((KUKU-1)) done
“Time” for fun with your cd drive
Watching the Democratic debate tonight, I listened when the candidates talked about how to cut the deficit. Several of the candidates talked about how to work on helping education. They also talked, of course, about the cost of the war. And I had a little thought. So I looked up […]
A simple calculation
If you’re interested in the whole copyright law issue that seems to be the backbone (or spineless) matter for the DMCA, you gotta watch this little 10 minutes video. It’s called “A Fair(y) Use Tale”. It explains it all. With a chuckle. Just don’t try to follow the scenes. Just […]
What is fair use (or how I laughed at the ...
Our Linksys WRT54G router at home started acting up the other day. My wife’s web site had problems delivering image galleries. We’d get about 4 thumbnails downloaded and then the connections seem to go away and the page would never completely load in the browser. I couldn’t find the exact […]
Upgrading a WRT54G’s firmware to DD-WRT
My wife and I are planning this year's landscaping projects for our new home (we bought it last August). I thought a clever way to do that would be to run some landscaping software I bought a few years back. It's a Windows 98 application. I have a copy of […]
Getting a windows app running under Fedora Core 5
I was trying to install a package on an FC5 box at home today and discovered that yum was being uncooperative. Well, I blame it on yum but it was actually rpm. There were no error messages, no indication at all that something was wrong. It just hung. I noticed […]