Writing

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 […]

Joining in with Boinc

Thu August 31, 2006 in General tagged holiday / Linux / Writing

I discovered one problem today – the aiptek driver loaded even though it couldn’t talk to the evdev driver. I didn’t have that module built for my particular kernel. So I went into the 2.6.11 source tree under drivers/input and ran make -C /usr/src/linux SUBDIRS=$PWD modules where /usr/src/linux symlinked to […]

Some success w/Aiptek today

Fri October 21, 2005 in Aiptek Tablet / General / GIMP / Hardware tagged GIMP / Linux / Writing (updated 6760 days ago)

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 6782 days ago)

Everything was working well today. I took the laptop over to Panera Bread at lunch and got the wireless working there with a little script (the RH network config doesn’t bring it up for some reason). Then I managed to squeeze in a little writing work on my book. But […]

More laptop troubles

Tue June 07, 2005 in Aiptek Tablet / General / Hardware tagged atrpms / rpm / Writing / yum (updated 6760 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 6924 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 7006 days ago)

My new book on GIMP is going well so far. I’ve received a template with styles for OpenOffice from the publisher that I need to use. Up to this point I’ve been doing everything in vi. They probably wouldn’t appreciate the book being submitted that way, though I do get […]

The book writing process

Sun February 27, 2005 in Art and Graphics / General / Writing tagged GIMP / Lost / Writing

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 7055 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 7082 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 7112 days ago)

I’m setting up a section on XEUS to post source and examples from articles I write for magazines. I wanted to make it somewhat automated so I didn’t have to regen pages for each article. I just wanted to drop a tarball in someplace and let my system take care […]

Mod Rewrite rules

Mon November 08, 2004 in Linux / Software Development tagged Writing (updated 7120 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 7129 days ago)

Michael J. Hammel

Building a better today…because tomorrow is in question…