It’s Test Day time again! This Thursday, 2010-03-11, is webcam Test Day. It’s really pretty simple: if you have a webcam we want you to boot up a recent Fedora and check if it works. There’s detailed instructions on the Wiki page but that’s really what it boils down to – fire up your webcam, [...]
This is by far the most interesting blog post I’ve read this year. It also gives me a great urge to buy something – anything – made by Chumby. If the guy who runs the company is that on the ball, they must be making good stuff, I reckon…
It’s Test Day time again!
This Thursday, 2010-02-18, will be Color Management Test Day. There’s some exciting new color management features in Fedora 13. That is to say, there are color management features in Fedora 13! We’ve never had any real color management in Fedora before, so this is great news for photographers and designers in [...]
Thanks a lot to Jaap A. Haitsma for alerting me to WPTouch, a very neat plugin for WordPress which automatically presents a mobile-friendly appearance when it detects a mobile browser user agent (and you can customize the user agent list). So now when you visit this blog with a mobile device you should get a [...]
So, this is insane:
That’s Spring. What’s Spring? Well, it’s a fairly neat open source RTS framework that started out as a Total Annihilation clone, but more to the point, it’s a pretty complex 3D game. What’s cool about the picture? Well, it’s in the renderer info in the console (which you probably can’t quite make [...]
So, I somehow forgot to mention that I got a new shiny: it’s an AT&T Tilt 2. Odd choice since it’s an American phone and there are several versions available in Canada, you may think, but there’s a method to my madness: it has the exact frequencies required to work on 3G networks in both [...]
So, here’s something about MythTV that people may actually find useful!
MythTV has, as I mentioned, a neat web frontend called MythWeb. Obviously since I have a webserver I wanted to run MythWeb on that; doesn’t make any sense to have two of my local machines exposed to the internet. To my surprise, however, these seems [...]
This is the kind of thing I just love. Now I have my PVR setup, it’s possible for the power state of the cable box to get kind of ‘out of sync’, with the combination of two different ’setups’ – direct TV, and PVR – that use it, and my Harmony remote control for controlling [...]
So I managed to find myself yet another ‘little’ project. I’ve had an HTPC for years, running Freevo; but that’s all it’s been, it just plays videos and music. At the very start I had it set up as an analog PVR, and recorded all of two things on it, but then the sound broke [...]
Well, this has been nostalgic – I haven’t pulled a packaging all-nighter in a while!
I was still sore about having to rely on Google for my calendar / contact synchronization, so I figured I’d sort that out. Cue eGroupWare. This is a rather nice SOHO/small business-targeted groupware suite; it does contacts, calendars, tasks and a [...]