Archive for the ‘ Free Software ’ Category
The bzr guys just released 1.0 yesterday. Congrats guys! bzr is truly awesome, as in just works, and for the past 1 or 2 years have been been working really good for MMS. [ READ MORE ]
Ole, friend and collegue from iola, released flot today. Flot is a Javascript plot library for jQuery released under the MIT license. The release got mentioned on Ajaxian and brought the server this blog is also hosted on to its knees. Several hours later, out server is now up and running again with lighthttp as [ READ MORE ]
Two microsoft licenses approved as open source. It had to happen, open beats closed in the long run. [ READ MORE ]
Stumpled upon this story the other day. Finally a tool where you can actually decide which things get prioritized instead of the kernel relying on heuristiscs. I did a test with alsaplayer playing back using through jackd (very sensitive to not getting enough time slices). To stress the system I did a emerge sync together [ READ MORE ]
Stumbled upon this guide today for how to create better patches when the project in question is using bzr (such as MMS ). [ READ MORE ]
A long time ago, Rett D. Walters created a console frontend for Xine so that we could use that in MMS. I’ve since the last release created quite a few patches for it, and because Rett wasn’t actively maintaining it anymore I decided to roll all my patches into a new release: http://people.iola.dk/anders/cxfe/ [ READ MORE ]
Today I decided to change nic in my server because the onboard NIC wasn’t working properly. And so again I hit the problem that udev can assigns a NIC a different ethX name than what the kernel is printing in dmesg. So one modprobes the module and gets the following output: e100: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver, [ READ MORE ]
Found this crazy piece of software tonight. It’s a clone of guitar hero as far as I understand. Open source (written in python(g)) and seems to work on all major OS’s. The game is really entertaining but also extremely hard on my fragile coding hands after a few hours [ READ MORE ]
I was creating some patches for tracker today from a rather large amount of local changes which was nicely filtered together. Some source files had several independent changes that I wanted to extract and submit as a single patches instead of one big megapatch. So I looked around and found out that the OO guys [ READ MORE ]
So I’ve been known to rant about bzr before. I got a new machine recently and it came to my attention that it quite a pain to keep two local bazaar branches in sync. So I thought I would have a look at the new breed of revision control systems: git and bzr. My first preference [ READ MORE ]
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