LUGRadio is complete

LUGRadio is complete

Last night I edited LUGRadio Episode 1. For those unfamilar with the concept, LUGRadio is four of us from Wolves LUG sat round my studio with microphones chatting about Linux and having a bit of fun. Anyway, the edit is complete and the recording will be released any...
Judge Jono

Judge Jono

I have the great pleasure of announcing that I will be one of the judges in the Linux User & Developer Awards. I am looking forward to being part of this, and I can also announce that I will be giving a presentation on desktop Linux development on the first day of...
Stats crazy

Stats crazy

This site seems to be getting a lot of traffic recently. I am putting a lot of this traffic down to the recently announced Blender documents that are in the writing section. Let me give you a summary of the hits. On the 15th Feb I was averaging out at just over 2000...
Vetta II arrived

Vetta II arrived

Yes, thats right, it has arrived. Today I had two huge boxes delivered to my house, one containing a Line6 Vetta II and one containing a Line6 FBV pedal. Are they good? Are they what they cracked up to be? Well, yes!! I plugged the Vetta II in and went through the...
Judge Jono

Oh yes

Last night I hacked my Qt program some more. Got the file input/output working and it is all coming together nicely. This is great stuff and should make my writing far easier. Today is another busy day. I want to clear out a number of articles so I can get some book...
Fun and games

Fun and games

Well, the Debian machine I was setting up yesterday is now working. The problems I had with the 2.6 kernel were indeed because there was no IDE support compiled in. Thanks also go to Mark for leaving his advice on my last blog entry. 🙂 After I got 2.6 working I then...
Judge Jono

Debian fun

Last night I was hacking away at some Qt code to play with sockets still. I spent most of the time revising old code to handle QWidgets though. Finally fixed it after some head scratching. Today I brought the studio box downstairs and plugged it into the LAN. I...
Remote X

Remote X

After some discussions with Telsa today regarding remote X sessions over a LAN, I felt compelled to give this a whirl on the Mac with its suped up X installation. To say impressed is an understatement. This is incredible. I can now have my KDE kicker menu running on...
Wales

Wales

I drove to Wales today. It was a complete belter of a drive getting there – nearly 3 1/2 hours there and another dose of 3 1/2 hours back. My meetup with Telsa was cool; work done, randomness discussed and paper spread everywhere. 🙂 Wales seems quite a nice...
Remote X

Welcome Blenderheads

Ahhh cool, it seems my story that I submitted to the Blender website has been posted. I noticed 10 people online in the Writing section a few minutes back. Wow. Fingers crossed my whopping 11 part Linux Format Blender series will be made available sometime soon. 🙂...