Some time back I tried to get a Griffin Technology radioSHARK working in Linux, but ran into USB problems. Now Michael Rolig has gotten it to work. Read on for my experience and suggestions.

For a while I’ve been using a Logitech Premium USB Headset 300 with Fedora Core 4 Linux on my desktop computer at home. I mainly use it for Skype, though I sometimes use it for games or movies. It didn’t require any configuration; I just plugged it in and it worked.
I unintentionally left [...]

I have a damaged DVD that will no longer play in my DVD player. My computer seems to be able to read it OK. The official position of the MPAA is that I’m shit-outa-luck, and should just buy another copy. Naturally I prefer to exercise fair use rights, and make a backup [...]

I’ve been trying to use the latest Xilinx FPGA development software (Foundation ISE 7.1i) under Linux. It’s been a huge hassle getting it set up, but it’s finally working.
Unfortunately Xilinx only officially supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, which is one major release back, uses a 2.4 kernel, and (worst of all) costs around [...]

When I heard that Fedora Core 2 was going to include natively-compiled Eclipse, I was excited since I’d wanted to try Eclipse for quite a while but had never been able to make it work. Unfortunately the native Eclipse didn’t actually make it into FC2 or even FC3, but it is part of the [...]

On Advogato, groom wrote:
System V’s init runs sequetially from 00foo to 99bar in each runlevel (1,2,3,4,5,6 in linux). And it is long. I wonder if it could be (yes it could) possible to extend init to handle 2 more types of daemons : xxFFbar (fire and forget) and xxPPfoo (Parallel in sequence xx). thus [...]

On a mailing list, someone pointed out a Windows lcd test program that was useful for adjusting the pixel clock frequency and phase of LCD monitors with analog VGA inputs (vs. DVI). It puts up alternating white and black vertical lines one pixel wide. This is useful either for auto-setup or for fine [...]

I installed Fedora Core 4 Test 2 in a spare partition to see if the supplied X server would solve the Radeon 9200 16-bit/24-bit problem. No dice. Ended up installing a Radeon 9550SE card instead, which works OK.

The refurb Sapphire Radeon 9200 card arrived yesterday. The card seems to work fine, as far as I can tell. Software is a different matter.

I just got a new Samsung SyncMaster 213T LCD monitor, on sale locally for $739 with a $100 mail-in rebate (better deals can be found on line, but I like instant gratification). 21″, 1600×1200. Same diagonal and resolution as the Nokia 445Xi CRT it replaced, but much easier on my eyes since I [...]