Open Source

See the Elephants Dream web site. This is kind of cool – a 3D animation created completely with open source tools. They’ve even included the production files for everyone to examine. The download is 99MB at it’s smallest resolution, or up to 450MB in other formats.Â They say it’s playable […]

Open Source Animation: Elephants Dream

Fri May 19, 2006 in Art and Graphics / Open Source tagged Open Source

I’ve resigned from writing for Tux Magazine. I only wrote for them for the first 5 issues, but the anti-GNOME sentiment really started to bug me. While I have nothing against KDE, I just don’t use it much. I mean, after all, I was there when GTK+ was born – […]

Tux and the anti-Gnome sentiment

Wed October 12, 2005 in General / Writing tagged GIMP / gnome / GTK+ / kde / Linux / linux format / Open Source / Writing (updated 6786 days ago)

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.

Thu May 26, 2005 in Linux tagged dell / GIMP / graphics / Linux / mysql / MythTV / Open Source (updated 6916 days ago)

Since my last entry the world has moved a little for me. It moved me to Colorado Springs, Colorado. I’m here with yet another company (I’ve lost count now how many that makes) to provide my skills as a Linux professional. I’m coding – a little. I’m running lots of […]

Where in the world is ….

Tue May 24, 2005 in General tagged Linux / linux format / Lost / Open Source / Writing (updated 6927 days ago)

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 7010 days ago)

The job hunt continues. I’ve had an interview with Amazon that didn’t go well. Some kid screening for a group he didn’t even work for (and didn’t even know what group it was) asked me to explain how to write a function to compute a fibonaci sequence and make it […]

Looking for work

Fri January 28, 2005 in General tagged Open Source

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 7058 days ago)

Larry Matter contacted me about integrating my build system with his MiniMyth project. He’s setting up source code control using an open source licensed version of Perforce. When its ready I’ll check in my build tools and we’ll start working together from there. There is lots to do, not the […]

Minimyth Build System

Tue October 12, 2004 in Linux / Software Development tagged Open Source

Michael J. Hammel

Building a better today…because tomorrow is in question…