I am, once again, late to the party. Last time it was mp3s. This time it is RSS feeds. This site has had one for a while, but only because the software I use to provide the blog section happens to support it without my doing anything. Until this week,… Read More
I have recently had cause to re-evaluate the license I use for a piece of software I wrote a few years ago. BEEPy is a Python network communications library I wrote to teach myself Python several years ago. Well, when I say wrote, I mean wrote to the point that… Read More
I’ve made a lot of progress with seafelt 2.1 lately. I managed to implement the TCP polling framework with some working examples in a frenzy of activity over two weekends and about 40 hours all together. The big bonus for me was really learning how Jim’s backend framework actually works.… Read More
I just set up MythTV to stream video from the desktop to my laptop. I’ve had to muck about with the playback resolution because the poor little laptop just doesn’t have the hamsters to playback HDTV at full resolution. It’s also running over 100MiB wired ethernet, not GigE. It’s quite… Read More
Bill Moore came to visit us today. Bill works with Jeff Bonwick on the Solaris kernel, specifically on ZFS, the new uber-filesystem that runs on Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris. It’s still a beta product, really, but it works quite nicely as is. There are all sorts of great features in… Read More
I’ve been having a second go at installing Quickbooks today. I attempted it last weekend but it failed to install correctly. It appears the key I used for the upgrade from Quickbooks 2002 to 2004 doesn’t actually work. It installed fine, but wouldn’t run. I’ve since verified the correct key… Read More
I’ve recently embarked on a major rebuild of my desktop system from a Debian sid based testing/unstable distro for amd64 to an Ubuntu Breezy Badger install for amd64. The Ubuntu bit was relatively painless, and happily VMWare Workstation 5.5 now supports amd64, so it works nicely. Unfortunately, MythTV isn’t packaged… Read More
Today I explored some of the extra items to the left of the rhythmbox GUI. I use it because it supports all my tunes and I can create playlists out of fairly complex search criteria. It also automatically detects new songs as I rip them into the directories I’ve told… Read More
I love the internet. I also love Debian. I am starting to develop unhealthy emotions towards OpenOffice. I am definitely a geek. Perhaps it’s the lack of sleep talking, or maybe the caffeine, but the internet has once again validated all that is awesome about people being able to share… Read More
