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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)

Mon September 18, 2006 in MythTV tagged atrpms / GIMP / gnome / graphics / intel / ivtv / MythTV / rpm / Video / yum (updated 6793 days ago)

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

Tue September 12, 2006 in Acer Aspire 1690i / Hardware / Linux tagged acer / aspire / gnome / graphics / intel / Linux / MythTV / Video / yum (updated 6803 days ago)

I’ve resigned from writing for Tux Magazine. I only wrote for them for the first 5 issues, but the anti-GNOME sentiment really started to bug me. While I have nothing against KDE, I just don’t use it much. I mean, after all, I was there when GTK+ was born – […]

Tux and the anti-Gnome sentiment

Wed October 12, 2005 in General / Writing tagged GIMP / gnome / GTK+ / kde / Linux / linux format / Open Source / Writing (updated 7140 days ago)

It used to be that you could fairly easily allow remote applications to connect to your X server using just xhost. The criminally insane (re: script kiddies) have caused us all to lock down our systems like a virgin during the dark ages. Fortunately, sitting behind a well plumbed firewall […]

Using remote X applications under Fedora Core 3 (re: xhost ...

Thu June 30, 2005 in Linux / X11 tagged Fedora / gdm / gnome / Linux / X11 (updated 6889 days ago)

I upgraded FC3 and got a new kernel: 2.6.11-1.27. This kernel supports the ipw2200 wireless correctly, although you may still need to get the updated acerhk module to enable the wireless after you power off and then back on. Once the wireless hardware is enabled, I think it stays enabled […]

Acer Aspire updates

Sat June 11, 2005 in Acer Aspire 1690i / Linux tagged acer / aspire / gnome (updated 7117 days ago)

After I got X running again late last night, I didn’t look too deeply at how everything else was working. One thing that stopped working was the Synaptics pad. Before X died (and was resurrected) the Synaptics driver was loading and working fine. But that was with my own kernel, […]

ACPI update and Synaptics changes

Wed June 08, 2005 in Acer Aspire 1690i / General / Hardware / Linux tagged acer / aspire / gnome / graphics / intel (updated 7117 days ago)

My old IBM iSeries 2611-412 finallybit the dust today. Strange that I was looking into buying a new laptop anyway, but right after I decided not to buy one, the PCMCIA slots died. While I might eventually get these working again, this system is 6+ years old and ready to […]

A new laptop – Acer Aspire 1690

Sat June 04, 2005 in Acer Aspire 1690i / Hardware / Linux tagged acer / aspire / Fedora / gnome / graphics / intel / Linux / rpm / Video / X11 (updated 7117 days ago)

When I first encountered WordPress, I already had a blog package written (XIMBlog) for my own personal use. I used that blog as a lab notebook, both at home and at work (well, mylast job anyway). Maintaining yet another software package just didn’t appeal to me so I switched to […]

On blogging.

Thu February 24, 2005 in General tagged gnome / Wordpress

I’ve hit a couple of snags in trying to do various types of upgrades. The first is related to upgrading, or rather porting, my GTK+ software from 1.2 to 2.x. The second is in upgrading my laptop at work from RH9 to Fedora.

Who said upgrading wouldn’t be hard?

Wed November 17, 2004 in General / Linux tagged Fedora / GIMP / gnome / graphics / GTK+ / kde / rpm / Wordpress / xnotesplus (updated 7469 days ago)

Michael J. Hammel

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