'Software' Category

• Oct 05
  2012

  Google TV and Native Libraries

  The Google TV runs a fairly unusual flavor of Android (at least the 2nd-gen ARM-based devices). I have a Sony Internet Player (not the Blu-Ray version), so what I’m about to write applies to that device, but maybe not any other, though it stands to reason that the other ARM-based GTVs are the same. Phone-and-tablet [...]

  posted in Software by Brian Tarricone

• Apr 16
  2012

  Techie TODO

  In no particular order. Start blogging again. Suck less at Javascript, even if it’s a shitty language. Learn jQuery, even if it’s just a library to make a shitty language less shitty. Learn Rails properly. Get back into open source dev. Find a project/idea I can potentially monetize, and build and launch it. Throw out [...]

  posted in Software by Brian Tarricone

• Dec 06
  2010

  Gentoo Linux on an 11? MacBook Air (October 2010)

  I just posted a page detailing my experience installing Gentoo on one of the new MacBook Air models (in my case the MacBookAir3,1 with 1.6GHz CPU, 128GB SSD, and 4GB RAM). Hopefully it’ll be useful for others.

  posted in Software by Brian Tarricone

• Dec 26
  2009

  Amazon MP3 Downloader on 64bit Gentoo Linux

  (This is going to be a bit of a narrative. If you’re impatient, scroll to the “How-To” section at the bottom of the post.) Today I decided to download an MP3 album from Amazon. I actually wanted all the songs … Continue reading →

  posted in Software by Brian Tarricone

• Jul 06
  2009

  New Laptop (aka Gentoo On MacBook Pro 5,5)

  NB: I’ve cleaned up this guide and moved it, and I’ll continue to update it there. This blog post will not get any more updates. Those of you who have chatted with me over the past… er… 18 months or … Continue reading →

  posted in hardware, Software by Brian Tarricone

• Jun 17
  2009

  On In-Kernel Drivers

  It’s pretty well-known that the Linux kernel developers advocate getting your drivers into the main line kernel tree. Doing so ensures that your driver always gets fixed to conform to the latest “correct” internal interfaces when they change, and in-kernel … Continue reading →

  posted in Software by Brian Tarricone

• Mar 18
  2009

  Git Weirdness, Part 2

  Ok, now this is just ridiculous: [brian@machine1 airconfig $] pwd /home/brian/src/airconfig [brian@machine1 airconfig $] git branch -a advanced-ip-settings * master nm-frontend notification-rework reconnect origin/master origin/pre-hal [brian@machine1 airconfig $] cd .. && mkdir t && cd t [brian@machine1 t $] git … Continue reading →

  posted in Software by Brian Tarricone

• Mar 17
  2009

  Git Weirdness

  So I have a git repo on my machine at home, that’s cloned from a repo on git.xfce.org. I was doing some work in it the other day — in a private branch, not published to git.xfce.org — and I … Continue reading →

  posted in Software by Brian Tarricone

• Mar 01
  2009

  Xfce making great strides with version 4.6

  A little more than two years after version 4.4 was released into the wild (on 21 January 2007), the Xfce development team has announced the availability of the new version of the Xfce desktop environment yesterday (yes I’m late to the party…). In an email, release manager Stephan Arts announced the new version 4.6 (only [...]

  posted in Reviews, Software, xubuntu by vincent

• Dec 09
  2008

  Backlight Change Notification?

  Is there a decent (non-polling) way to get notified when a laptop panel’s backlight brightness changes? HAL exports methods to set and get the brightness level, as well as query the number of possible levels, but there doesn’t appear to … Continue reading →

  posted in Software by Brian Tarricone