Open Source

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

Thu January 01, 2009 in Acer Aspire 1690i / Fedora / Hardware / Linux / X11 tagged acer / aspire / dual monitors / Fedora / freedesktop / gdm / graphics / holiday / intel / intel driver / laptop / Linux / linux format / multihead / multimedia / MythTV / Open Source / red hat / rpm / sports / vga port / Video / video memory / virtual display / X11 / xorg / xrandr (updated 5589 days ago)

I finally upgraded to WordPress 2.7 for both my personal blog and my book (the Artist’s Guide to the GIMP) web site. As part of the upgrade I switched both sites to a new theme: ByteTips. This theme is extremely clean when viewed in Firefox and seems to work well […]

WordPress updates

Mon December 29, 2008 in General tagged colorado springs / firefox / GIMP / meetup / Open Source / photoshow / widget / Wordpress (updated 5598 days ago)

Finding off the shelf supported hardware is a tough task for Linux. The problem with such lists is that they often include hardware that you can no longer purchase from retails outlets. So it’s easier to get a list of what the outlets have available and then search the list […]

Linux Hardware Compatibility – getting started with off the shelf ...

Thu December 18, 2008 in Fedora / Hardware / Linux / MythTV / Open Source / Video / X11 tagged epson / Fedora / games / GIMP / gnome / graphics / hauppauge / intel / ivtv / kde / Linux / multimedia / MythTV / nvidia / Open Source / printing / Video / wifi / xrandr (updated 5602 days ago)

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

Mon December 15, 2008 in Software Development tagged dell / Fedora / gnome / GTK+ / holiday / java / jni / Linux / Open Source / patents / Wordpress / Writing (updated 1880 days ago)

I tend to work very much to myself on projects. I get help from the open source community via discussion forums or mailing lists, but in-house (at work or at home) I’m pretty much on my own to figure things out. This has led to some development practices which work […]

Debuggers vs debug libraries

Wed January 16, 2008 in Linux / Software Development tagged java / Lost / Open Source

So we here lots about how IBM is a big supporter of the Linux OS. Granted, “Linux” is different than “Linux distribution”, but let’s not mince words here. IBM says they support it all. And mostly, they do. Unless you want to look at the Live Scores on the US […]

Does IBM really support Linux and open source? I ...

Mon August 27, 2007 in General / Linux / Open Source / sports tagged Linux / Open Source (updated 6088 days ago)

I stumbled upon some IBM developerWorks articles this week that are short but informative. The first is on the Linux Kernel and the source code layout. It’s a nice introduction to the kernel for those who have a little background but aren’t really sure how things are structured in either […]

Interesting reading material

Mon August 20, 2007 in Linux / Software Development tagged Linux / Open Source (updated 6095 days ago)

Our Linksys WRT54G router at home started acting up the other day. My wife’s web site had problems delivering image galleries. We’d get about 4 thumbnails downloaded and then the connections seem to go away and the page would never completely load in the browser. I couldn’t find the exact […]

Upgrading a WRT54G’s firmware to DD-WRT

Sun March 18, 2007 in Hardware / Open Source tagged Linux / Open Source / wrt54g

This year’s Libre Graphics Meeting is taking shape, with a temporary website posted. The official domain is being readied and the web site will be transferred there later. The LGM is a conference for artists and developers who work with open source graphics tools such as the GIMP, Inkscape and […]

LGM 2007: Libre Graphics Meeting, Montreal

Sun January 28, 2007 in Art and Graphics / GIMP / Linux / Open Source / Software Development tagged GIMP / graphics / Open Source (updated 6299 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 6295 days ago)

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

After many, many years of using Applix Words for documents at home, I have just become aware that FC5 no longer includes the C++ library I needed to continue running the old Applix binary. It was bound to happen. But I need to convert those old documents (all of them […]

Applix to OpenOffice: forced migration

Mon October 02, 2006 in General / Open Source tagged Open Source / yum

Michael J. Hammel

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