I’m trying to watch a recorded event for a class. Unfortunately it is provided as a streaming .ram file, which means that RealPlayer is basically my only option for watching it. While I have a high-bandwidth internet connection, RealPlayer was still breaking up from time to time, so I decided that the best [...]

When I posted Dual Head on Fedora 11 last night, I thought I had the problem completely solved, but when I booted the system this morning, the video card was acting up again.  There were lots of black horizontal streaks through the display, and the server crashed in short order.  Rebooting again got the same [...]

I finally have a working dual-head configuration on Fedora 11 with a Radeon 2600 Pro AGP card and two LCD monitors.  The ATI Catalyst (fglrx) binary-only driver is crashing again; I think they’ve had a regression in their AGP support for the R600 GPUs.  Getting dual-head to work with the X.org radeon driver was interesting [...]

Apple wants me to accept a revised license agreement for the iPhone developer program.  Generally I want to save copies of all such agreements that I accept.  The web page as a link for a PDF copy of the license that I could save, except that when I click on the link, I am told [...]

It is with great reluctance that I have just sent two DMCA notices to parties that are distributing software I’ve written in violation of the licenses.  I sent informal notices to the parties a month ago, and received no replies.  Two of the parties are using aliases, and I do not have postal addresses or [...]

Update:  I upgraded one of my machines from Fedora 7 to Fedora 9, and it started using tiny fonts.  Tom Horsley on the Fedora list explained that now the X server is actually using the display resolution (dots per inch) from the monitor’s EDID data to choose default font sizes.  On NX sessions I was [...]

I was just watching some of the “Get a Mac” advertisements on the Apple web site yesterday. They’re quite entertaining.
Before I went to bed last night, I told iTunes to download a bunch of the iPhone development videos. After the first one had finished downloading, I watched it while others continued downloading.
I just [...]

Over the past week I purchased several iPhone applications through the App Store, including Super Monkey Ball, a Rotary Dialer, and a few others.  I also downloaded some free applications.
Today I connected the iPhone to the Mac Mini for the first time.  I had to update iTunes, but that was relatively painless, other than dealing [...]

I’m just starting to learn about printing in GTK+. The documentation provides a good API reference, but is a bit intimidating, and I didn’t find much in the way of sample code. There’s a sample called “printedit” in libegg, but it is somewhat out of date. I updated it for renamed functions [...]

I’m still making progress towards a new release on Nonpareil.  Sometimes it seems like the more work I do, the more I find that needs to be done.