Well… hello…

So I guess I finally decided to start a real blog. I had one at my website some time ago … More

Configuring A/V Equipment in Linux for Recording

Microphones You can check the sound card configuration with “cat /proc/asound/cards” and the pcm configuration with “cat /proc/asound/pcm”. These produce … More

Renaming a volume group on Linux without a reboot

It is possible to rename a volume group on Linux without rebooting the system and loading up a rescue image. … More

My xterm Configuration

Here’s the configuration that I use for xterm: xterm -bg black -fg green -sb -font -*-fixed-medium-r-*-*-18-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*

Mounting LVM volumes on Linux

To mount an LVM volume on Linux, first set the volume to the “active” state: vgchange -ay Mount the drive … More

Fitting data to a function with Gnuplot

Put your x,y data in a file that Gnuplot can read, like a simple text file with an x,y pair … More

Dumping detailed hardware info on Linux

There’s a nifty tool called “dmidecode” that will dump detailed hardware information about a Linux system. You must be root … More

Connecting IBM Rational Team Concert 3.0 to a Subversion repository

I am migrating my NiCE project to SourceForge so that we can get it out of the door to customers … More

Fixing annoying MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME errors

If you are having problems with SWT crashing because it can’t find MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME on Linux, make sure that you have … More

Migrating to RTC3.0 from RTC 2.0.0.2 iFix 5.

I had trouble upgrading from RTC 2.0.0.2 Express-C iFix 3 to RTC3.0 Express-C with both versions using the Derby database. … More