Patrick’s weblog, featuring posts dating back to 2002 on topics including technology, open source, networking, and various technical adventures.
As part of the preparation for PennAve 0.4, I’d like to give the application a little bit of branding magic. So, if anyone out there has some graphics talent and would like to give me a hand, I could use a logo for PennAve. My…
I’m almost to the point where I’m ready to do a push out of the new 0.4 release of PennAve. This release sees lots of new features and bug fixes that make the software even better. Most of all, it’s got a UI that’s 83.6%…
Today I finally hit my breaking point with Evolution. It’s always been with it’s quirks, but in general it’s worked quite well for the last four years or so. It’s address book had suitable functionality, and the filtering was okay. But in reality, it sucked,…
One of the blogs I frequently read is the Make: Magazine blog. Today I noticed when reading it that one of the topics was How to make a combination composite/component cable for the Wii. “Wow,” I thought, “someone else had the same idea as me!”.…
My component cable for my Wii showed up this week, and Zelda in 480p is much nicer than 480i. However, I’ve got a slight problem. Because I use a YPbPr to VGA transcoder that only handles 480p, when the Wii switches to 480i output for…
The line at Walmart. Are you here for the poinsettias too? On Saturday, November 18th, 2006, I found myself inside the lawn and garden section of a local Walmart. I had come prepared. Papers to read, books, movies for the laptop. I was ready for…
Here’s a tasty little treat for you. The Linux client for Second Life allows synthetic events to be sent to it. What’s this mean? Basically, it means that you can script X input with other programs throught the wonders of XSendEvent. Where I find this…
Hey you! Yes you! What does your computer do most of the time? If it’s like most computers, it just sits idle. Sure, some of us may have reasons to leave our computers on all day, such as a web server, or a mythtv box,…
I released PennAve 0.3 today. This new release brings a slew of nifty new features that you can find on my gallery. Among them are: Slide show Nifty new graphics RSS feeds Customizable landing page Improved performance thanks to caching Anyway, if you’re running GNOME,…
Somehow I’m becoming a bit of a treehugger. Either that or I’m just getting annoyed with how hot rooms in the house get as a when I have computers on all the time. So, I set out to figure out how much power each of…