Category: libre software

pyBrainfuck v0.2 released

I just released v0.2 of pyBrainfuck. PyBrainfuck is a speed-optimized Brainfuck interpreter written in Python. Some other Python interpreters already exists for Brainfuck, but they are either obfuscated or awfully slow. PyBrainfuck has been optimized for speed by doing various preprocessing on the code such as pre-caching loop instructions, removing non-instructions, etc. PyBrainfuck also has […]

MiniOrganizer v0.1 released

I just released the first version of MiniOrganizer. MiniOrganizer is a small no-nonsense personal digital organizer written in GTK2, featuring appointments, todos and notes. It uses iCalendar files as its native back-end, supports multiple alarms per appointment/todo and has recursive todos. MiniOrganizer currently features: Appointments. Hierarchical Todos. Multiple alarms per appointment and todo. Alarm notification. […]

Transmission 1.x on Ubuntu 7.10

For some reason Ubuntu 7.10 has an ancient version of Transmission. Version 0.74 or somesuch. Unfortunately, that version of Transmission contained some bugs so it’s blocked by certain bittorrent trackers. In order to install a more recent version: You can download a more recent version from the gutsy backports package pool. Uninstall transmission: sudo aptitude […]

VeeDee-Eyes.com: VirtualBox VDI images for download

VirtualBox has been getting more and more attention as of late. It is vastly superior to other virtualization programs due to the simple fact that it actually runs on my system. All the others either don’t install (VMWare), crash (QEMU), or are a real bitch to set up properly (Xen). VirtualBox is Open Source, easy […]

DVTM – dynamic virtual terminal manager

I do a lot of remote UNIX administration on various servers and even some desktop machines. This usually means that I’m doing a lot of SSHing into machines, often opening multiple sessions to the same machine at the same time. It quickly becomes tedious to keep having to type ‘ssh fboender@some.machine.com‘ four times in order […]

Android

Android is here. There’s been a lot of rumours about a Google mobile phone. Now, it appears that there is no gPhone (thank god), but there is a Google Mobile Phone Software Development Kit! The SDK appears to have everything you need to build third-party applications for your mobile phone. The SDK is created in […]

History of the Free Software Movement

Found an interesting read over at O Reilly’s website: The GNU Operating System and the Free Software Movement, by Richard Stallman.

Finally a good Bittorrent client for Debian

I finally found a good Bittorrent client for Debian. Freeloader. The original homepage doesn’t appear to be live anymore, so perhaps it is unmaintained. But, it’s written in Python, so if I need some functionality that it doesn’t have, I can just add it myself. Here’s a screenshot: Things that are missing (which I’ll probably […]

Dutch consumer rights organisation recommends Ubuntu

The dutch consumer-rights organisation ‘Consumentenbond’ has recommended Ubuntu as a possible alternative to Vista after it received 4200 complaints about Vista in four weeks. Translation of the dutch Nu.nl article: Flood of complaints about Windows Vista AMSTERDAM – Consumer organisation ‘Consumentenbond’ has collected 4200 complaints about Vista in four weeks. Vista still isn’t a viable […]

GNOME/GTK hack: Smaller icon sizes

Icons are freaking huge in Gnome. Since I’m not blind, I’d like them a bit smaller. Unfortunately, GNOME doesn’t seem to offer an easy way to do this. There’s the desktop/gnome/interface/toolbar_icon_size in the gconf-editor, but it doesn’t appear to do anything, so that’s not really gonna work. Besides, I have no idea what I should […]

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