Mikes Thoughts

Sometimes an easy truce prevails but in this case, I’ve found a place where I can live with Ubuntu and its power management.  Somewhere with the changes to the driver, editing a variety of files, and explicitly defining the radeon driver suspend now works.  Why?  I don’t really know.  But I like it.  Perhaps my [...]

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I’ve purchased themes and used the free ones that Sadish offers for some time now.  This theme is my favorite but I’ve had to move between platforms of late because of work.  I’m building a community profile site for some work tasks; so I have been building and testing on Drupal so I split time [...]

If you happen to read here every so often, I should mention that I’m going to be shifting my base of operations to my hosting solution and its Drupal install. Not gonna be posting here all that much. The new weblog is here! Come on over and visit.
I’ve also exported the existing [...]

I think perhaps there is a lesson to learn from how this happened and what should be pointed out in future operating system wars with countries that have completely different views on technologies that either enable or compete.  As the article points out, mere years ago, China was actively avoiding Microsoft software and there was [...]

Just testing… excuse my small amount of dust.

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I like to find tools which make tasks like creating mp3 files easy.  There is sound-juicer which comes packaged with gnome; but by default it will not create mp3 files.  Here is the way to make it work with sound-juicer if you are at all curious.  There is also grip which I’ve used in the [...]

Well, for some reason today, when I got a new kernel on my Edgy AMD64 boxen, it gave up and would not boot.  I got a whole bunch of libc6 errors so I booted to an earlier kernel and it all worked.  Then I futzed. And of course I broke things even worse :).  So, [...]

I signed up for Linuxworld San Francisco this year again to only see the exhibition.  I don’t think I’ve ever gone to listen to the papers or presentations. If I want to go listen to Linux papers, I tend to go to SCALE for that kinda thing.  I did want to say a few things [...]

I read over this post which talks about a few points he has made regarding whether Linux is alive or dead, whether Torvalds has a job, whether Linux was only due to Apache, mysql, SugarCRM. You know what?
Hilf does not matter. He is extraneous and his opinions really don’t matter if you run Linux. If [...]