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 [...]
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. [...]
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*
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 [...]
I finally finished the nexuiz package! Got Michael to do a patch for it that makes it compile properly and split it into 4 subpackages (one nexuiz, nexuiz-glx, nexuiz-sdl and nexuiz-data). Now it’s time for me to have a break!