Santa, in the form of my wife and daughter, really came through this year. Ry got me a Dell ST2010 HDMI monitor to use with my BeagleBoard. I think she saw the mammoth CRT TV I had hooked up to it and thought I deserved something more modern. I have […]
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Judging from the most used searches and posts (thank you wordpress stats), interest in the Intel Xorg. driver is extremely high. While it’s easy to see that’s true on the X.org mailing list, looking at my own blog stats was the first time I realized other end users were having […]
Intel driver updates: 2.5.99.2 and 2.6.0, plus a little about ...
I’ve brought F10 up on my MythTV server and my laptop at home (with my dev server yet to be upgraded) so now it’s time to bring it up on my systems at work. The first box is a Dell Dimension 9150 which has a 64bit CPU. So after going […]
F10 64bit failure
As the year grows to a close I find myself finishing up projects and preparing for the new year. I put together roughly 90,000 lines of code this year on a single project with one other developer, probably split somewhere around 80/20. It is, as I’ve told him, our boss […]
Top ten things I’ve learned about software development
I found an interesting story online about a producer at CNN who got canned for blogging – mostly about stuff that didn’t pull the corporate line. It’s interesting to read from my point of view because it mirrors (to an extent) the pitiful way in which Dell treated its employees […]
Big media (along with corporate stupidity) must die, die, die.
It’s interesting to find old friends and coworkers reading my blog, mostly since I write it for myself and really don’t expect anyone else to read it. But I guess a few do. So it was a pleasant surprise to hear from Charlie Sauer today. Charlie was director of product […]
Another look back: the history of Dell Unix
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
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
Daniel Lyons interview of Larry McVoy might raise the wrath of open source purists, but he raises some good points about the difficulty in building a software business around open source ideals. Unfortunately, his conclusions based on his own experience with those difficulties don’t quite stand up to inspection. Open […]
Not quite heretic, but not quite right, either.
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 […]