Themes with Cairo were always a goal, but never implemented. Now, with PiClock, they are a reality.
holiday
I mentioned in a previous post that my wife got me some more old books this past holiday. Last year she got me Pat and the Iron Horse, the first book I remember reading as a kid. This year, she found me some Big Little Books similar to the one […]
Big Little Books
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 […]
Happy Holiday: Lilliput and HDMI monitors, another WD archive
The movie industry inundated us with 3D this past holiday season. If you didn't catch Jim Carey's take on Dickens, you didn't miss much. My wife and I saw it in 2D, sans glasses. Turns out the movie is a flop if you're not into being wowed by 3D tricks. […]
3D vision – get over it already
I’m was working on the 2nd edition of The Artists Guide to GIMP Effects tonight when I ran into an ugly bug. The documents I exchange with my publisher are in RTF format, possibly because its easier for them on the production side though I’m not positive of that. Anyway, […]
Hating RTF
I’m a constant tinkerer on my computers. While I hate system administration I like to experiment with things. But a computer is a virtual world. What you get is visual and (in some cases) auditory. You don’t get a hands on feeling. You don’t really build something substantial. I think […]
makezine.tv: Getting my fix of hands on projects
6 Over the holidays I upgraded my laptop to Fedora 10 (previously I had only upgraded my MythTV server). The upgrade went fairly smoothly following the information from my previous post on upgrading a MythTV server to F10. However, my laptop supports dual monitors. Of course, that didn’t work out of […]
Fedora 10 issues with intel driver and multihead
I’ve finally updated my Dept 56 galleries to include both 2007 and 2008 images. The new gallery software on the blog displays the galleries much better than the old software and makes it easier to upload and add captions. So I’ve retro-fitted captions to the old galleries to help describe […]
Dept 56 galleries for 2008
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
1 Migrations to new releases of Fedora are not a huge problem for me since I use a separate partition for system files (including repository managed packages) and separate partitions for home directories (/home), multimedia files (/store and /music), and web server root directories (also under /home). About the only […]
Migrating a MythTV server from pre-Fedora 10 to Fedora 10
My SSR's arrived from an eBay purchase last week. I got a set of 4 10A / 120V solid state relays for about $24 including shipping. Not a great price, but reasonable enough. I was in a hurry to get this done. I haven't tried the SSRs yet, but at […]
Holiday lighting fun
I've signed up three machines at home (plus one more when I replace the power supply) and one at work in the BOINC network. These machines run 24/7 so I've been flying up the stats except for some downtime while the machines were down during my recent move to a […]