So after upgrading to Gutsy on my “made by Chinese slave labor POS” laptop I was unable to boot into any of the new 2.6.22 kernels. I decided to do a clean install to insure “freshness”. Unfortunately, the results were much worse than the upgrade. I wasn’t even able to boot into the live CD […]
I’ve been mulling over where I’d like to improve/grow my programming skills. I’ve decided I’d like to learn embedded Linux programming. To get things started I’m reading the following book:
Embedded Linux Primer by Christopher Hallinan. The book details the in and outs of working with embedded Linux devices and what the choices are for developing […]
I decided to upgrade my laptop to Gutsy a few hours before the mad rush by using the update manager and pointing to the development tree. I fired up the update manager as we were starting Wednesday night’s show on TLLTS. The installer worked fine as it downloaded and upgraded over 1100 packages. I […]
The server was running Ubuntu Edgy and with the immient release of Gutsy Gibbon I decided to upgrade it to Feisty Fawn. I simply replaced all references to Edgy with Feisty in my /etc/apt/sources.list file and did ‘apt get update’ and ‘apt-get dist-uprgrade’. I had to reboot as a new kernel was installed. Entire […]
It seems more and more websites are designed so you can’t read them. They generally have a black background and the words in some other very dark color. Basically, I can’t read them! Do I need a special decoder ring? Did I miss the meeting where they handed out the special viewing glasses? Am I […]
Basically this whole I-bricking from Apple is a result of people seeing a cool device and wanting to create and install 3rd party applications. Apple is merely being Apple. They own the whole stack and control every single aspect of its use. As soon as people realize this and move on their lives will be […]
What can I say about the Ohio Linux Fest that hasn’t been said by everyone else? It was a great time! We got to meet and hang out with a lot of wonderful people in the community. It was fantastic catching up with old friends and acquainces and finally putting a face and voice with […]