Archives Aug. 23, 2007
Presentation Invites (Very different audiences...)
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Young Coders.
Two requests for presentations today. One is for an academic conference on education, one for a DemoCamp night (local hip-tech crowd). Should wind up with two very different presentations. I'm hoping to be able to set up a video camera to be able to record the presentations for redistribution. Maybe just record practice runs?
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Finally got pressure-sensitivity in the pressure-sensitive tablet! (Years later...)
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Tuxedo.
I use an old Wacom Graphire instead of a mouse on my workstation. I've done this for years, and I find it really helps my wrists. It's worked fine as an absolute-mode mouse while in Linux, but it's always been lacking the pressure-sensitivity controls.
Last night I upgraded the machine to the 2.6.22 kernel, and ...
Yay, kernel drivers for all! (Once we get past the activation code...)
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Looks like the kernel drivers for the virtualbox/vmware virtual devices have been added to the devel builds. Couldn't get past activation with the images from today, however, so haven't been able to confirm that they work. Still, yay.
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Mike C. Fletcher, the VRPlumber, is a philosopher of design turned computer programmer based in Toronto, Canada. He works primarily in the Python programming language, and maintains a large number of Open Source software packages. You can reach him at: mcfletch@vrplumber.com.