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The only real problem with being unemployed (aside from the whole money thing) is that you have far too much time to think of new, time consuming projects. If you’re in this industry and you’re mind isn’t twisting and crunching every time some fresh topic flies by your eyes then […]

A simple plan: open source provisioning software

Thu March 03, 2005 in Linux / Software Development tagged epia / GTK+ / Linux / Open Source / Writing (updated 7366 days ago)

Since mylast entry RLXTechnologies has folded, leaving me (yet again) on the job hunt. They aren’t actually shut down but they cut 80% of the staff. The hardware guys up in Portland got picked up by Intel, so I’ve been told. I’m not sure how manyfrom my group are left […]

As the stomach churns…

Thu January 13, 2005 in General / Linux / Software Development tagged dell / epia / graphics / holiday / intel / Linux / linux format / mysql / MythTV / Open Source / Writing (updated 7414 days ago)

I posted a new section to the GIMP Gallery to display the artwork I’ve been doing for Linux Format magazine. Linux Format is a glossy print publication from Future Publishing targeted and end users and is published in the UK. Note that their web site doesn’t do their publication justice, […]

GIMP Gallery updated

Fri December 17, 2004 in Art and Graphics tagged GIMP / graphics / Linux / linux format / Writing (updated 7442 days ago)

This past weekend marked the official start of the holiday season in the US. We call it Thanksgiving but it’s really just a 4 day weekend to prep for the craziness of the end-of-year festivities. My family celebrated with dual Thanksgiving dinners – one on Thursday with my inlaws and […]

Holidays and projects

Sun November 28, 2004 in General / Linux / Software Development / Writing tagged GIMP / graphics / holiday / Linux / rpm / ximba / xnotesplus (updated 7460 days ago)

I did a little research this morning and found some potential fixes to the fixed positioning problems under IE. There is Eric Bednarz’s solution, which includes references to using IE’s conditional comments to load appropriate CSS styles. And then there is a thread form 2003 on WebmasterWorld.com that gives specific […]

Fixed Positioning for IE

Tue November 23, 2004 in Art and Graphics tagged java / Linux (updated 7465 days ago)

I guess it’s okay to say this now since they officially announced yesterday, but my new writing gig will be with Tux Magazine, the new magazine being put out by Linux Journal. I’m about 3/4 complete on my first article for the magazine, but the first issue isn’t due out […]

New gig: Tux Magazine

Wed November 17, 2004 in General / Linux / Writing tagged Linux / linux journal / Writing (updated 7472 days ago)

I’m working on part II of a two-part series on using GIMP and PHP to create an online gallery for LinuxFormat. The first part was writing a script that could be run on a directory full of images to generate thumbnails in both grayscale (actually, 24-bit destarutated) and color. That […]

Gallery Article

Sat October 30, 2004 in General tagged GIMP / graphics / Linux / Writing (updated 7489 days ago)

I’ve been invited to be a featured columnist in a new Linux magazine. Details are forthcoming. The only thing I’m allowed to say at this point is that if you are a regular reader of the leading Linux magazines then you’re likely to recognize the Editor-in-Chief of the new magazine […]

A new gig

Fri October 22, 2004 in Linux / Writing tagged GIMP / graphics / Linux / Writing

The build system is coming along. Various reports of problems so far have been easy to fix although one report of really poor results on SuSE may be much more difficult to address. The goal is to make the MiniMyth build system run on any Linux platform on which MythTV […]

Minimyth build – Alsa

Tue October 19, 2004 in Linux / Software Development tagged debian / Fedora / Linux / MythTV / suse (updated 7500 days ago)

Larry set up the Perforce repository and I checked in the build system tonight. There is still lots to do, though. Time to get back to work. Since its been a couple of weeks since I worked on the build system (I had an article to get out for LinuxFormat […]

Minimyth Build System commited

Thu October 14, 2004 in Linux / Software Development tagged Linux (updated 7505 days ago)

Michael J. Hammel

Building a better today…because tomorrow is in question…