Linux Game Publishing has announced a competition where one can win the first copy of their new unnannounced game for Linux.
The winner will be the first person to guess which game it is, based upon the slowly revealing image on http://competition.linuxgamepublishing.com/.
The chance to know what new game is coming out for Linux and the chance [...]
Day Planner 0.9 has been released. It is available for download as a Mandriva RPM, Ubuntu deb, Debian deb, generic installer and source tarball.
The release focused primarily on fixes and cleanups. A bunch of minor bugs were fixed, and I rewrote most of the iCalendar back-end. It should be faster now and preserves files better [...]
(Re: Proprietary Webcam driver wonders).
I recently discovered a free driver for my GF’s builtin Microdia webcam. It works very nicely (better than the crappy proprietary one did when I tested the “trial”). So if you’ve got a Microdia webcam, at least the 0c45:624f one, now you can have it working properly, with good quality without [...]
I’ve added automatic development snapshots of Day Planner to the Day Planner homepage. There are currently three different branches (trunk, next stable, current stable) being built, in two flavours (tarball and installer). The snapshots are updated twice each day and are available at http://www.day-planner.org/index.php/download/snapshot. Feel free to take them for a spin.
Today is the second anniversary of the Day Planner project. So hurray for Day Planner, and here’s to all the great releases to come.
In other related news, I’ve just released a development snapshot of Day Planner 0.9.
It is available at http://www.day-planner.org/index.php/download/devsnapshot. It contains all of the developed features for 0.9 (including the unfinished maemo port), [...]
Everyone else is doing it!
[0 zerodogg@firefly ~]$ history | awk ‘{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] ” ” i}}’ | sort -rn | head
279 cd
185 vim
117 ssh
75 screen
74 svn
66 wget
64 ls
60 perldoc
59 rm
58 cget
Today (6th of April) is my birthday, and my GF, being rather artistic, decided to go a different route when it came to the gift certificates she gave me.
This one is for TuxGames (well, this was /really/ from the cat (Junior) and the hamster (Tuxine)):
This one was for Aetolian credits (Aetolia being a MUD):
And the [...]
I’ve finally taken the time to prepare a website for all the various programs and scripts I’ve got in use here that the world might also find some use for. The address, right now, is http://random.zerodogg.org, though once I find some more imaginative name I’ll probably move it, but for now it’s random.
Everything mentioned is [...]
Okay, I gave up on the point of getting the perl bindings for gtk2 going.
It was just too much work, and would not only require getting the gtk2 bindings going, but also writing bindings for hildon, the maemo-specific stuff.
So I went to plan B, which was to reimplement a maemo-specific GUI in python that just [...]
It’s finally here, and I’m loving it so far :).
Tried some basic stuff, installed ssh+scp and tried ScummVM on it. All running nicely.
Now I’m about to move to the hard part, getting Day Planner actually ported to the thing.
The gtk2 perl bindings still don’t have a maemo port. I’m going to have a go at [...]
My girlfriend has a builtin webcam on her new x86_64 laptop.
The webcam has no free drivers, but there is a proprietary one available on linux-projects.org.
Pay 10EUR and you get the driver. Okay, doesn’t sound /so/ bad. But the driver is only available for x86 ubuntu gutsy, no other arch, no other distro, no other kernel. [...]
Yay!
I’ve been picked as one of the lucky 500 that will recieve a Nokia N810 at a heavily discounted price.
My initial plans will be to investigate ways of porting Day Planner to maemo. Because there are no Gtk2 perl bindings for Maemo at the moment, as far as I know. I’m going to have a [...]
Day Planner debs are now available on http://www.day-planner.org/. Both for Debian and Ubuntu (in addition to the already available Mandriva RPM and generic installer).
Creating a deb was interesting, as I had never done that before - used to rpm packaging, though I got a lot of help by Morten Werner Olsen.
The packaging also uncovered quite [...]
I know you’re probably sick and tired of these comparisions. If so, don’t continue to read, and definetely don’t troll in the comments :).
I had so many various problems with 2008.0 that I felt it might be prudent to try some alternatives (I’ve upgraded to 2008.0 on 4 boxes so far, with not a single [...]
I’ve been thinking of a method of creating simple configuration UIs.
Take the following config file:
RunMode = Inetd
AuthMode = Closed
Restricted = true
To create a simple configuration GUI for this I would write something like this:
filename is /etc/example.conf
setting RUNMODE can be (Inetd, Daemon)
setting AUTHMODE can be (Closed, Open)
option RunMode is RUNMODE with name “Run mode” and tooltip [...]
Now this is quite cool, Davide Duina (I think I spelled it right! :) of http://mandrakeitalia.org/ has posted an Italian translation of my SSH tips and tricks.
Original at: http://zerodogg.iamaturtle.org/index.php?type=docs&page=sshtips
Italian at: http://www.mandrakeitalia.org/modules/wfsection/article.php?articleid=151
Okay, I was just made aware of the Brazillian Mandriva store by Claudio. The DARNED THING USES ASP! AFAIK it isn’t Mandriva that runs it (duh), but STILL!
For a little more clarification:
[0 zerodogg@drizzt html]$ HEAD mandrivastore.com.br
…junk…
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
…junk…
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
Someone tell me I’m dreaming! *cries*
Sooo, plane leaves in ~2 hours and I’ve had, let me see, 0 hours, 0 minutes and 0 seconds of sleep this night. Mmm…
It’s time for yet another SkoleLinux (aka. Debian-Edu) developer gathering. My plane leaves tomorrow at 06:20 - that’s right 06:20 IN THE MORNING! Which means I’ve got to be up roughly around 5, yuck. I’ll probably be working on some KDE 3.5 translation and possibly a little bit of development or discussion about TransPO. [...]
I’ve been thinking about ways to upgrade configuration files lately and I’ve come up with the idea for CCP (common configuration parser). The idea is to take one template file, one old configuration file, one definition file and one mode. To give a better example of how this would work:
ccp –type basic –mode rpmnew –template [...]