Adobe released the Flash Player 9 plugin for Linux this week.  I downloaded it and tried it under identical software configs (FC5 & Firefox 1.5.0.7) on two different machines.  I tried viewing my two favorite sites that contain Flash content:  ABC's Lost and SciFi.com's Battlestar Galactica .  With the old […]

No joy with Flash Player 9 Beta under Fedora Core ...

I was working on my Dept 56 pages when I discovered that all child pages of a top level page would be displayed in the sidebar.  I don't really want that.  I want child pages to be linked from the top level page only.  That way the hierarchy isn't stuffed […]

WordPress hack: disabling showing page children

Herb Swanson wrote to tell me that my web site comes up first in his Google searches for Aiptek 12000U on Linux.  Because of that he suggested posting one of the places where he found more information.  The site is Ubuntu specific but it might help users of other distributions, […]

Update: Aiptek 12000U tablet and Linux

Rondam Ramblings: Top ten geek business myths is a  blog from a guy named Ron Garret who's been there, done that, and wants the geeks of the world to know that the truth just aint what you think.  I won't rehash the whole blog, but let me summarize: If you […]

Geek happiness != wealth

After many, many years of using Applix Words for documents at home, I have just become aware that FC5 no longer includes the C++ library I needed to continue running the old Applix binary.  It was bound to happen.  But I need to convert those old documents (all of them […]

Applix to OpenOffice: forced migration

I've finally gotten back to working on my MythBox project.  This is a project to build an embedded distribution for MythTV that will run on a high-end appliance for the backend.  In other words, I want to build a distribution that can run off a IDE CF card so power […]

Back to Mythbox, finally

This blog entry tells me one thing:  software developers are still stupid.  Have we not learned anything from bloated Windows environments?  Why don't we just tie the X environment into the kernel and then embed all our X applications inside that!  WOW!  Let's see if we can keep the CPU […]

OpenOffice to embed Thunderbird and Sunbird? Bleck.

Linux Devices posted a story about a new Linux-based DVR from a company called Neuros that is going into beta specifically for Linux-hackers.  This looks pretty cool.  It would be fun to play with if I had a spare $230.  But that price point is too high for me when […]

Linux-based DVR goes beta to Linux hackers

I recently did a major systems upgrade at home, moving multiple systems from FC2 and FC3 up to FC5.  One of those systems holds my MythTV backend server while another is my wireless connected laptop running the MythTV frontend.  Obviously, the front and backends got updated too, along with the […]

MythTV 0.20: First Impressions (plus workaround for OpenGL problem)

My SSR's arrived from an eBay purchase last week.  I got a set of 4 10A / 120V solid state relays for about $24 including shipping.  Not a great price, but reasonable enough.  I was in a hurry to get this done.  I haven't tried the SSRs yet, but at […]

Holiday lighting fun

After about 1 1/2 years on FC2, I finally upgraded my Acer Aspire 1690 laptop.  If you read my earlier posts on installing FC2 then you know it wasn't a straight forward configuration to get everything working.  I'm pleased to say that is no longer the case.  FC5 covers essentially […]

Acer Aspire 1690: FC2 -> FC5 upgrade

I've got MythTV working with a keyboard now, but the builtin IR receiver and remote are sending signals to the keyboard and I'm not to good with trying to learn how to map the remote into the keyboard driver.  I managed to get the down arrow to map to a […]

MythTV and the HP de100c