Category Archives: IBM
Biting the Hand That Feeds
Granted, I’m not a Groklaw junkie. Lawsuits are the epitome of bureaucratic boring and are not a creational activity. So, keep in mind that I only read the occasional major headlines from The SCO Group’s escapade in futility. It does … Continue reading
Computer Aided Government?
Random thought of the day… As most programmers, I see tendencies of over optimism in myself. Yet Mike Judge’s Idiocracy seems like a strange window into the future. Part of me thinks that government should include an open source heuristic … Continue reading
Video of Windows 7 Black Screen of Death
Here’s a video to accompany my previous blog post Windows 7 has definite backlight problems (”Black Screen of Death”). As mentioned before, I cannot reproduce this in Arch Linux. The problem began after a recent “Patch Tuesday”. Microsoft has been … Continue reading
boo2pdf Update
I did some minor updates to boo2pdf. Graphics should now be within the page margins. Please let me know if there are any other common formatting mistakes. Unfortunately, IBM’s “transmogrifier” utility doesn’t work very well in Wine, so you should … Continue reading
Announcing boo2pdf
I’ve just uploaded a beta of boo2pdf, an IBM BookManager to PDF conversion app & web service. I’m currently experimenting with the HTML to PDF backends and would like feedback with book files I haven’t tried. Once the code is … Continue reading