Well this will be a short and sweet one, I have generated a simple wallpaper for Lucid for my laptop. (1920x1200), thought I would share it with all of you. Hope you everyone likes it.

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In a fairly recent article post, I called out for some testing with the new version of Mythbuntu Log Grabber.
On a similar note, i would like to share a bit of python knowledge gained in the venture of building the new version.
As many will tell you, the Threading module in Python is usually not one to just go diving into for many reasons (none of which I have plans to go into here). However with a little know how (and allot of documentation) I was able to make things work quite well.

Just wanted to give a quick update, my small business site has gone through a complete rebuild over the last 24 hours or so with the goal of getting the pre-configured Mythbuntu based systems out the door (finally).

After much request and much delay while waiting for code enhancements and building some of my own, the systems are to the point where I am comfortable shipping them to end users. This will be a great new venture and hope to provide a great DVR at a great price.

This is a short a sweet one, I have uploaded a build of MythTV, libvdpau, and nvidia-glx-190 (190.53) to my personal PPA.. This build is simply to verify MythTV works as expected when built against the latest libvdpau.

The Mythbuntu team and I would appricaitate some testing and reporting results back to the mailing list with your results.

I have spent the better part of the last several years trying to spend my own time and money on developing and prototyping ideas for different products, some of which didn't or won't pan out. I have however come up with a few, from piratical needs or otherwise, that would be rather great to produce.

The problem, I work in information technology in a support services role. I do have a small business that I have been using to cover the costs of my inventions and maintain progress of different products.

Recently I completed work on the latest version of Mythbuntu Log Grabber. Mythbuntu Log Grabber was built originally to provide an easy to gather diagnostic data for users that don't know exactly what to provide. After a few releases in the wild and some minor bugs I decided to covert it to a Mythbuntu Control Centre plugin and give it some upgrades.

A few quick features:

• Built-in pastebin posting removing the dependency on pastebinit
• Selection of which logs to post
• Full log posting

What is the shortest path from zero to millions of dollars with little to no effort?

The Internet of course.

As a follow-up and the next in a short series and what seems to be a developing theme, I plan on exposing the Money making methods for what they really are, scams.

Alright, so after a short respite and much thought, here goes with the third part of the unintentional multi-part series on the software business model and how it interacts with FOSS.

In Martin Owen's most recent article on the subject in continuation of this series, he pointed out several good points that I would like to address. So lets jump right into it:

"Proprietary software isn’t useful to the community, it’s useful to individuals."

One the things I have had a passion for quite sometime is Artificial Intelligence. However, thinking about the requirements, and the technology that already exists it seem unlikely to be possible.

Recently though, while spending time with my nephews, who are both under 5 years of age, it occurred to me that the technology may already exist. In its most rudimentary form, AI is code learning from a history, its environment, and what others can teach it. It then will need to respond to interaction, be it from speech, text, or visual.

I seemed to have touched on something in my very recent Making money with Linux? article. I was pointed to a rebuttal written by Martin Owens by some fellow developers in the FOSS community.

Before jumping right into this, I would like to make a cople of things clear. First off, I do not claim, nor have all the answers. Secondly, I am glad for the differing opinions. I firmly believe that posing the question and having different opinions will lead us all to the answers.