Category Archives: Software

Dual-head on Fedora 11

Posted on September 18, 2009 by Eric

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Fedora, X11 | 1 Comment

Suboptimal iPhone developer program license agreement

Posted on June 8, 2009 by Eric

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Blog/website/news comments, Software, The Suboptimal Way | 3 Comments

DMCA notice

Posted on September 24, 2008 by Eric

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.  … Continue reading →

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Suboptimal fonts after Fedora 9 upgrade

Posted on September 14, 2008 by Eric

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) … Continue reading →

Posted in Fedora, The Suboptimal Way, X11 | 5 Comments

Suboptimal iTunes video downloading

Posted on August 23, 2008 by Eric

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Customer satisfaction, Mac OS X, The Suboptimal Way | 3 Comments

Suboptimal iPhone “Sync” and “Back Up”

Posted on August 16, 2008 by Eric

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Gadgets, Mac OS X, The Suboptimal Way | 3 Comments

GTK+ printing

Posted on June 14, 2008 by Eric

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 … Continue reading →

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Nonpareil status

Posted on June 11, 2008 by Eric

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.

Posted in Calculators, Nonpareil | 8 Comments

The suboptimal way to expand a filesystem online

Posted on April 12, 2008 by Eric

I used LVM to increase the size of a logical volume containing an ext3 fileystem from 300GB to 500GB. After expanding the logical volume, it is necessary to expand the filesystem to use the added space. In theory, this can … Continue reading →

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Suboptimal new computer experience — privacy vs. Mac OS X

Posted on April 10, 2008 by Eric

I just got a refurbished Apple Mac mini, with the 1.83 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor. It is mainly intended for use compiling my open source programs such as Nonpareil for Mac OS X. I am extremely surprised at … Continue reading →

Posted in Mac OS X, Nonpareil, Privacy, The Suboptimal Way | 4 Comments