I'm building a mythclient for use at home.  It's being installed on FC5 using the ATRPMS repository so I can do a simply yum install mythtv-suite.  Except that there is a missing dependency that, as it turns out, is hard as hell to resolve.  MythMusic depends on libmp4ff which (after […]

MythTV 0.19 and Fedora yum dependency problem: libmp4ff

I've signed up three machines at home (plus one more when I replace the power supply) and one at work in the BOINC network.  These machines run 24/7 so I've been flying up the stats except for some downtime while the machines were down during my recent move to a […]

Joining in with Boinc

So someone in this big ol' planet found my little blog entry about the Hanso Foundation image and linked to it on Technorati.   I followed a thread about this and found that at least a few people thought I was crazy and had no clue what I was talking […]

Fun with Lost, again.

A previous post on working with Aiptek and Wacom Graphire4 drawing tablets drew the following response from Garett Harnish: While it isn't "out-of-the-box," here are instructions on how to get the Graphite4 working under linux. The instructions are for a distribution I've never heard of before, zenwalk, but they seem […]

Update on Wacom Graphire4 support

My family and I spent the last month moving into a new home, and I'm just starting to get back to my day to day nerd activities.  We moved to a rented house in Colorado last year for a job, but that job fizzled (worst managed project I've ever been […]

Catching up – again.

Working on an article for LWN.net late last night, I ran into what is apparently a well known problem.  The Via Rhine driver in Linux will ocassionally disable the PXE firmware so netboots don't work anymore.   I found the solution in an Linux Kernel archive early this morning.   […]

EPIA-M 10000 netboot stops working

I'm working on a project to build my own distribution based on Linux From Scratch . I've been trying to get Bootsplash to work with a LiveCD and a netboot version of the distribution.  Unfortunately, using bootsplash with Linux kernel 2.6's initramfs is not well documented.  Thus, I'm making notes […]

Using bootsplash with Linux kernel 2.6.x

I was digging around the ABC website tonight after the season finale, rumaging through the forums. I found a link to The Lost Experience Blogspot and started reading. In there was a clue posted on the Hanso site (which I can’t read with Firefox for some reason – Arggghhh). There […]

Decoding a Hanso clue (re: fun with Lost)

I posted a few new images and added more descriptive filenames to my GIMP Gallery.  All of the new stuff is under the LinuxFormat and Logos pages.  Nothing earth shattering.  Just stuff I’ve been meaning to do for some time. I had to fix some bugs in my admin scripts […]

GIMP Gallery updates

See the Elephants Dream web site. This is kind of cool – a 3D animation created completely with open source tools. They’ve even included the production files for everyone to examine. The download is 99MB at it’s smallest resolution, or up to 450MB in other formats.  They say it’s playable […]

Open Source Animation: Elephants Dream

See: Save the Internet : Fighting for Internet Freedom If you haven’t done so yet, you need to go to this site and sign the petitions. Remember that this is a non-partisan effort. You can also sign the petition at MoveOn.org. The Internet is one of the most equalizing aspects […]

Fighting for Internet Freedom: Moby, REM, Indigo Girls, Dixie ...

My daughter won the Colorado High School 4A State Championship for #2 Singles in tennis this past weekend. High school team tennis runs with 7 lines, with 3 singles lines (1-3) and 4 doubles (1-4). My daughter plays line 2, primarily because the state champion at line 1 is also […]

Linux video editing: Avidemux2