http://www.mikegerwitz.com Through the Eyes of a Web & Software Developer Sat, 16 Aug 2008 02:37:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Free/open source software has had a profound impact on the modern age of computing. It continues to grow with each day and has become a major competitor to even large software companies such as Microsoft. At this rate, free software will continue to develop to the point where it may ... http://www.mikegerwitz.com/2008/08/16/success-of-free-software/ I'm sure it's painfully aware how much I hate iPods by the amount of content on this page supporting the elimination of DRM. This post just goes to support that. A friend of mine is having a problem with their iPod. The iTunes library decided to be an ass and get ... http://www.mikegerwitz.com/2008/08/09/gentoo-banshee-with-ipod-flag-podsleuth/ Well, it's that time again. Gentoo is great - you have an incredible amount of control over the distribution. However, that can also be a bad thing. I screwed a few things up, and it got to the point where it'd be faster to spend the two days reinstalling and ... http://www.mikegerwitz.com/2008/08/01/installing-gentoo-via-ubuntu-pam-problems/ Recently, after an update, I experienced some rather irritating problems with GNOME or any other GTK+-based environment (Xfce, GDM). Xinerama was not working properly. That is, I have TwinView enabled, but everything would span both monitors (except for maximized applications). This includes the GNOME panel, GDM login screen, etc. Xfce ... http://www.mikegerwitz.com/2008/06/27/gentoo-gnome-overlay-problems/ Ubuntu 8.04 LTS was recently released. So I upgraded a couple of my computers (that I'm far too lazy and have no time to maintain Gentoo on) to this new release to find that my wireless PCMCIA card did not work on my laptop. Okay - that's fine. I've had ... http://www.mikegerwitz.com/2008/05/15/ubuntu-804-hardy-heron-broadcom-wireless/ Well; after several wasted hours looking into what I believed to be a bug within the PHP core, I have figured it out. I want to post this in the hope that you, the reader, do not have to go through the stress I went through in attempting to resolve ... http://www.mikegerwitz.com/2008/05/01/php-stream-wrapper-irritation/ Ah - the weather in NY is finally starting to look up. I'm sure it'll be a while yet before it is consistantly warm, however it gives me a wonderful glimpse of how things will be. In spring/summer, the quality of my work (as well as quantity) tends to increase. ... http://www.mikegerwitz.com/2008/04/08/warmer-weather/ Well, I recently ordered a Sansa e280 from Amazon. I was looking for a good mp3 player that the open-source firmware RockBox supported. I noted that the v2 series was not supported, but Amazon did not state that it was such a model. You can imagine my disappointment once it ... http://www.mikegerwitz.com/2008/03/10/sansa-e280v2-regrets-guide-for-gnulinux/ Some may call me crazy Some may call me wise Some may look down on me Some may look up high Some may make me suffer Some may help me heal Some may show me hatred Some may show me truth Some may crush my efforts Some may give me aid Some may give me nightmares Some may give me dreams Some ... http://www.mikegerwitz.com/2008/02/24/shadows/ It's rare that I release poetry, especially those that express some inner emotion. This is one of the few that I've written that seems fit for others to read. http://www.mikegerwitz.com/2008/01/20/rollercoaster-ride/