Monday, December 30, 2013
For Christmas one of the gifts-to-myself was a Logitech Harmony Smart Control. This was to replace an aging Harmony 550 with some button issues. In the course of setting things up I wanted to get IR working with my Xbian installation on the Raspberry Pi. I needed to get an IR receiver and found that […]
Recently I came across a Google+ discussion about a post that was in the tutorial section of a community. The problem was the post itself wasn’t, to many, a tutorial at all. It was more of a ‘look what I did’ post. Sure it described what it was, what it was used for, and the […]
Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach. It seems that there should be a third option; Those who know, introduce others to the topic. As some readers know, I run the monthly meetings for the Columbia Area Linux Users Group located in Maryland. I want to share with you the most difficult part of my job, […]
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
After some consideration of both recent and historical decisions by Canonical in regards to the Ubuntu project and distribution, the lack of any noticeable dissension by the community leadership, I’ll be deleting my Launchpad account, along with all memberships to Ubuntu groups, this Saturday, March 2nd. The date represents the six year anniversary of my creating the account, […]
Sunday, February 24, 2013
I want to let everyone know that the Ubuntu Maryland Loco Team has a new contact. Ron Swift has stepped in to take over the reigns. Those who have been involved with the team know that he has been an invaluable part of the team since its earliest days. Whenever help was needed he has […]
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
I hope that the day was wonderful for everyone, and if not then you made the best of it!
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Yup, I’ll be heading to Blacksburg, VA for the Fedora FUDCon 2012! I’m looking forward to going to this event. I’ve recently switched a couple of machines over to Fedora and been happy with the results so far. It’ll be interesting to see how one of these events works for someone fresh to the Fedora […]
So I’ve been doing the whole reflecting on the last year and goal setting and planning for the next year thing. As part of the process I look at the schedules for the various groups that I am a part of and those that I run. In particular I want to talk about the Columbia […]
On Thursday, May 19th I’ll be giving a talk to the Open Source Maryland group at the Howard County Library Central Branch from 7-9pm. Titled “Exploring the possibilities of the best tablet value on the market, the Nook Color”. The talk will be an introduction to the publicly available information about enhancing the Nook Color […]
Come and join the Opensource Maryland group for our monthly meeting this Thursday April 21 from 7-9pm at the Howard County Central Library. Our feature presentation this week will be given by Ron Swift. He will be giving an introductory talk on OS virtualization and some of its uses with VirtualBox. Following the presentation we will […]