http://blog.zerodogg.org Geeky comments on geeky things Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:19:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Day Planner 0.10 was released on the 25th of March! This release is, imho, a great step forward from 0.9. It fixes various minor bugs, cleans up parts of the UI, handles strange or broken iCalendar files better, enforces UTF-8 encoding on the calendar and adds a plugin system. The largest ... http://blog.zerodogg.org/2009/04/16/day-planner-010/ Last year, the 21st of December I had to send in my GF's cellphone for repairs (bought online), incredibly enough the repairs went smoothly and fast, and on the 29th of December it was shipped back to us, using the Norwegian postal system. Little did we know that it wanted ... http://blog.zerodogg.org/2009/02/18/the-happy-travels-of-a-postal-parcel/ I've just written my first blog post for Linux Game Publishing on the new LGP blog. The post is about the LGP community. You can head over to the LGP blog to read it. http://blog.zerodogg.org/2009/02/13/blogging-for-lgp/ I've got some plans for SWEC in the future. One of its primary limitations at the time is that it can't really do advanced tests using things like POST or specific pattern matching. So I'm planning a simple command-based file format where you can define advanced checks for sites, to ... http://blog.zerodogg.org/2009/02/09/swec-future-plans/ I've been doing some web development lately, and the old question of testing has of course come up (and some might say, of course I had to roll my own solution). I wanted a simple way to sanity check a site, to ensure that my article changes didn't suddenly break comments ... http://blog.zerodogg.org/2009/02/02/simply-checking-my-web/ The new Linux game turned out to be Sacred: Gold an action-RPG similar to Blizzard's Diablo 2. The package includes the original Sacred, a free (official) expansion pack called Sacred Plus and the Sacred: Underworld expansion pack. I for one can't wait for this port to be released. http://blog.zerodogg.org/2008/05/14/sacred-gold-announced-for-linux/ 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 ... http://blog.zerodogg.org/2008/05/03/new-linux-game/ 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 ... http://blog.zerodogg.org/2008/05/03/day-planner-09-and-looking-forward/ (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 ... http://blog.zerodogg.org/2008/04/27/microdia-0c45624f-webcam-on-linux/ 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 ... http://blog.zerodogg.org/2008/04/25/automated-day-planner-development-snapshots/ An e-mail dumped into my inbox today, from the CEO of the MP3Tunes service, that I use for backing up my music collection. It stated that EMI claimed that this use was illegal and had sued MP3Tunes (this happened a while ago, I know). This isn't even a case of ... http://blog.zerodogg.org/2008/04/23/mp3tunes-and-emi/ 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 ... http://blog.zerodogg.org/2008/04/19/day-planners-second-anniversary-and-a-development-snapshot/ 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 http://blog.zerodogg.org/2008/04/15/history-meme/ 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 ... http://blog.zerodogg.org/2008/04/06/best-gift-certificates-ever/ 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 ... http://blog.zerodogg.org/2008/03/19/a-bunch-of-new-stuff/ 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 ... http://blog.zerodogg.org/2008/02/14/day-planner-maemo-port-under-way/ 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 ... http://blog.zerodogg.org/2008/02/05/n810/ Day Planner 0.8 was released on the 1st of January (2008). The primary focus of this release was getting some new technology in there and cleaning up old stuff. The daemon (or "reminder" as it is called in the user-facing UI) was rewritten from the ground up. The new one is a ... http://blog.zerodogg.org/2008/01/08/day-planner-08/ 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 ... http://blog.zerodogg.org/2007/12/10/proprietary-webcam-driver-wonders/ 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. ... http://blog.zerodogg.org/2007/11/10/maemo-nokia-n810-device-program-application-accepted/