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I recently saw some discussion on the Griffin PowerMate, a USB connected volume knob, and it’s use with GIMP. I’ve been trying to understand exactly why this would be useful. While it’s possible to map the features of the knob to various functions in the GIMP, it would require yet […]

Interesting device for use with GIMP

Tue March 06, 2007 in Art and Graphics / GIMP / Hardware / Linux tagged GIMP / graphics / Linux

I’d forgotten about this until I saw a post about it on a local Linux user group mailing list. The gist is to run: zdump -v America/Denver | grep 2007 for whatever timezone you are using. You should see Mar 11 in the output, not April something. Most recent Linux […]

Helpful tip: making sure your timezone is updated for ...

Mon March 05, 2007 in Linux tagged Linux (updated 6633 days ago)

I read a Slashdot post today that pointed to an AP article on Michael Dell returning as CEO at Dell, replacing his previously hand-picked crony Kevin Rollins due to lots of downside to the Dell business. The article had this interesting quip: …in recent years Dell has been stung by […]

Dell and Linux (or Unix): Microsoft still pulls the strings

Thu February 01, 2007 in General / Linux / Via Motherboards tagged dell / Linux (updated 6320 days ago)

I just installed the official FlashPlayer9 from Macromedia on my FC5 box at work. I then went to the Lost and Battestar Galactica sites, two sites that previously would not work correctly with the FlashPlayer9 beta releases. Well, they work flawlessly now. Kudos to the Adobe team for getting it […]

Flash Player 9: Official release (and it really works ...

Wed January 17, 2007 in Linux / Lost / Video tagged Linux / Lost / Open Source (updated 6664 days ago)

Take a little, give a little. I’ve been working on a Java/JBOSS project for the past 6 months and part of that includes working with the Java Native Interface. One of the things I have to do, practically at gunpoint, is to make sure our Java clients run on Windows […]

Java / JNI

Fri January 05, 2007 in JNI / Software Development tagged graphics / java / jni / Linux

There is a lot of information on the net about using WordPress as a CMS (content management system), in other words using WP as the foundation for a regular (non-blog) website. But that information is kind of spread out and not completely clear on the process required. Fortunately, it’s very […]

Using WordPress as a CMS: making e-Commerce Lite work on ...

Tue December 12, 2006 in Wordpress tagged Fedora / Linux / linux format / lwn / rpm / Wordpress (updated 6715 days ago)

There are a lot of examples of writing a simple JNI library for calling from a Java class. Unfortunately, few of them explain how to push your JNI class/loadable library into a package of it’s own. I ran into this problem today while trying to integrate a JNI library I’d […]

Working with JNI

Wed November 22, 2006 in Software Development tagged java / jni / Linux / Writing (updated 6736 days ago)

Ballmer: Linux “Infringes our intellectual property” | Hardware 2.0 | ZDNet.com If I may speak for Linux users everywhere: Hey Ballmer. Bite me.You’ll stop me from using Linux when you pry it from my cold, dead hands. You’re IP is a (to quote another moron) "non-starter". There are those of […]

Ballmer: Linux â€œInfringes our intellectual propertyâ€ | Hardware 2.0 | ...

Fri November 17, 2006 in Linux tagged intel / Linux

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 ...

Sat October 21, 2006 in Art and Graphics / Linux tagged Fedora / Linux / Lost (updated 6767 days ago)

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

Tue October 17, 2006 in Aiptek Tablet / Hardware tagged Linux / ubuntu / X11

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

Sat October 07, 2006 in General / Linux / Software Development tagged dell / graphics / GTK+ / java / Linux / Open Source / Writing

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

Sun September 24, 2006 in MythTV tagged Linux / MythTV

Michael J. Hammel

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