There is a discussion ongoing in the GIMP Developer mailing list about rumors of the Ubuntu distribution removing GIMP from the base installation in an upcoming release. The reasoning is that GIMP is a professional application and should only be included as add-on software similar to how Photoshop is not […]
Linux
I just got word that another article of mine has been accepted by Linux Journal. It should be published in February with the Desktop focused issue. The article is on the various ways to access remote Linux applications and have them display locally. For those who don’t know: there is […]
Another LJ article in the pipe
My daughter is heading off to college shortly and I’ve been informed that mother and daughter will be communicating via text messages. I disabled text messaging on my and my wife’s phones to prevent unwanted charges from dorks sending unwanted messages. Now I have to turn it back on. Oh […]
Getting new phones: argument for the Palm Pre = Linux ...
My Peek isn’t expected to get here till Saturday and I haven’t ordered the USB-to-Serial cable yet, but I will soon. However, while I wait for all that I’m digging into the links on the elinux.org/peek wiki. The link to the TI site for the TCS2310 (the main chip with […]
More Peek Research
I placed an order for a gray Peek from Amazon. The gray Peek’s are$2 less than the colored ones. Who needs a colored one for hacking? Anyway, it should arrive by Saturday. In the meantime I’ve been watching the videos and scanning online resources to learn about the internals of […]
Peek ordered, learning about the hardware
My previous posts on doing Fedora upgrades cover most of the topic but I realized there were a few things I left out. Installing additional applications The first thing has to do with some useful applications that Mauriat Miranda doesn’t cover on his excellent Fedora installation guidelines. xpdf – a […]
Upgrade addendum: other packages of interest, configuring a Wacom ...
I just wanted to brain dump a few things I thought were interesting and worth looking at more deeply. This is just so I don’t forget about them. Making KVM images I got this from Linux Journal’s August 2009 issue, in Serge Hallyn’s article on Making Root Unprivileged: qemu-img create […]
Interesting stuff, nothing major
2 I’ve been working with the various incarnations of Red Hat Linux, including Fedora, since before the company went public. In that time I’ve done more than just a few upgrades from one release to another. With each upgrade I learn just a little more about administering my own Linux system. […]
The Everyday Guide to Fedora Upgrades
I’ve been using the SANE backends with the XSane plugin for GIMP for many years now, but because of digital photography I don’t seem to need the scanner much these days. When we got the senior photos for my daughter, however, I needed a way to make a few copies […]
Setting up scanners under Fedora 10
I’ve noticed a lot of searches on xrandr in my blog stats and have been wondering what the problem is. Xrandr is a command line tool for enabling or disabling multiple display ports on your system as well as setting display resolution and even rotation. You would use it, for […]
Using xrandr with external display ports
I’ve added some slide presentations, with the help of Slideshare.net, to the Writings section. There is a presentation on using PmWiki for Project Management and a presentation on using WordPress as a CMS. I’ve also added a slide presentation on my book site on GIMP and Linux in Hollywood. Comments, […]
Online slide presentations
If you’re like me and log into work from home, you should probably be using the AllowUsers option in your sshd_config at work. This option allows you to specify IP addresses that are allowed to login to your system. So, for example, I might have an entry like this: myUserid@192.168.1.* […]