September 2007
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Workrave on Slackware 12.0
Finally, I built it. Here are the libraries I used: libsigc++-1.2.7 glibmm-2.12.10 cairomm-1.2.2 gtkmm-2.10.10 gdome2-0.8.1 gnet-2.0.7 The result: workrave-1.8.5 Compiling gtkmm can take ages (see my previous blog entry for machine specs.), so I disabled building of examples, demos and docs: ./configure —prefix=/usr —disable-examples —disable-demos —disable-docs To reduce...
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GlibMM - is anyone home?
Today I begin my trip into Slackware 12.0 on my workstation. It’s an older machine: Pentium III 550MHz ATI RADEON GPU 265MB RAM 40GB HDD In short: Slackware 12.0 with KDE 3.5.7 runs quite smooth on this machine - having 256MB of RAM is crucial. Installation went fine, without any hickups. I choose full install and it took about 3.7GB of the disk drive. The first problem was after reboot. I...
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I'll do it better the second time...
…this just popped out of my fortunes and I like it so much, I have to show it here: An architect’s first work is apt to be spare and clean. He knows he doesn’t know what he’s doing, so he does it carefully and with great restraint. As he designs the first work, frill after frill and embellishment after embellishment occur to him. These get stored away to be used...
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Slackware 12 has arrived
and it really fulfills the promises. It’s just great, at least, what I discovered so far. The main reason for me to try it out was simulatneous SATA and SMP support. It’s worked out-of-the box, I just had to pick a right kernel. Seeing the four penguin images coupled with fast-boot time is really delightful. But, that’s not all. The other usual stuff seems to work ok, and new KDE...
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3D Spam
Those of you who bother to look at the spam you get sometimes, have already noticed how spammers are getting more clever. As text-based filters remove all the possible combinations of V1agr4 or C1ali5, they started to place the text in images. Apparently some anti-spam filters use OCR to detect such things, but now the spammers want to be a step ahead. Frist they introduced some noise into...
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VMWare goes open source
Well, I just learned about this, and I’m excited :) http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/ The Open Virtual Machine Tools (open-vm-tools) are the open source implementation of VMware Tools. They are a set of guest operating system virtualization components that enhance performance and user experience of virtual machines. As virtualization technology rapidly becomes mainstream, each...