Patrick’s weblog, featuring posts dating back to 2002 on topics including technology, open source, networking, and various technical adventures.
I’m five and half years into my journey with MythTV, and in that time I’ve managed to upgrade my system several times. Back in 2006 I wrote a tutorial on installing MythTV under Ubuntu with a pcHDTV card and a firewire tuner. While some pieces of the…
Way back in May of 2003, when the internet was ugly and Web 2.0 didn’t exist yet, CompUSA had an online deal that caught my eye - a WinTV PVR-250 Hardware MPEG Encoder card for $99 after rebate. I had been debating the whole media center…
The Internet is a great place of open standards and open implementations that allows just about anyone to put together their own services. The plethora of programming languages that advertise themselves as being well suited for web development gives a developer a number of different swiss…
I’ve been a Ubuntu user since before it was called Ubuntu, back in the days when the domain name was no-name-yet.com. It wasn’t a hard switch from Fedora Core, which at the time was Core 1 or Core 2. Ubuntu was like entering a magical…
When the iPhone was first released it was hailed as the “Jesus Phone”. The one phone that would surpass all other phones and bring a new era of non-suckiness to our personal communications. With the release of the iPhone App Store, it’s only gotten better.…
The Free Software Foundation has done some truly amazing things for computers. The creation of Emacs, GCC, most of the standard Linux utilities, and the genesis of the ideas that later created Open Source (although, Stallman despises it), are just a few of the important…
About two weeks ago I picked up a pair of iPhone 3G’s for me and Kristina. So far I’ve been really happy with them, well, aside from the fact that they’re more or less bricks under Linux. Not complete bricks, I can still download photos…
As far back as the middle of 2000 I’ve been using multiple monitors for my daily work routine (see this screenshot for some proof. That’s done with a couple of PCI voodoo cards and a built in RAGE AGP card). It’s probably one of the…
Virtualization of desktop operating systems is pretty commonplace for users of Linux and Mac OS. Initial implementations of desktop virtualization, such as VMWare 1.0, had the guest operating system running in complete isolation. Interaction was done through a custom application or network applications. There was…
Dear Liferea, I wish I could break this to you easier. I wish I could say, “It’s not you, it’s me.” I wish I could just do the college freshman breakup and say, “Hey, you’re a great feed reader, you do a good job. You’re…