Yesterday, for a small project of mine, I needed to implement a small utility to deform jpeg images from command line. The idea was to use texture mapping for deformations, so I needed a way to manipulate the jpeg images at the pixel level. The first thing I tried was the imagemagik utility. I’ve browsed…
Running X applications under chroot jail
Having a Gentoo32 chroot as a fallback on a Gentoo64 system is not unusual. Some things simply do not work on Gentoo 64 (as FlashPlayer 9) or you need a distcc server for the other (32 bit) systems. I wrote a simple bash script that allows the X applications under chroot jail to connect to…
Every time you feed a troll, God kills a kitten
http://lists.lug.ro/lurker/message/20070205.152933.4a60c9ff.en.html
Sharp Zaurus Out of Production
It seems that Sharp will no longer produce the Zaurus line. Hi all, yes, we have to confirm that Sharp pulled the plug out of the Zaurus line. No successor model is planned, and the end of production will be early February. For sure we’ll continue with support, service and accessories for the Zauri. Also…
Gentoo on IBM ThinkPad 385XD
Another birthday present was a laptop IBM ThinkPad 385XD upgraded to 96MB of RAM and 10GB HDD. It came with Windows 2000 preinstalled but I already build a Gentoo image on my desktop for it. Due to the fact that it has a quite slow CPU and only 96 MB of RAM, I was thinking…
Logitech Formula Force EX Wheel on Linux
On my birthday, my friends bought me a Logitech Formula Force EX Feedback Wheel. After playing with it a lot in Windows, I decided to make it work on Linux. The force feedback part didn’t work out of the box. I managed to make it work with the usb-hid driver after I added it’s usb…
Linux DC++ was added to Gentoo today
The ebuild for the Linux port of DC++ Direct Connect client (Linux DC++) was added today to Gentoo portage. I was waiting for a long time to see a reliable Direct Connect client on Linux.
Romanian Demoscene Memories
When I was in highscool I was part of the Romanian demoscene subculture under the “PuthreGuy” nickname and I was part of the “General Failure” demogroup. I was also the SysOp of InfoVox BBS (FidoNet 2:531/10). “General Failure” was later renamed to “Float Entertainment” then to “Float|FX” when it merged with “Brain Damage” group. As…
Piatra Neamt 2007
It seems that Piatra Neamt looks better than ever this year. Too bad I could not go there these holidays. (Picture by Roger Mantu) More pictures can be found here: http://picasaweb.google.com/acsell/2006_12_13MyPiatraNeamt/
Bluetooth GPS on Gentoo
Configuring a Bluetooth GPS receiver on Gentoo was pretty straight forward for me. This assumes that you already have the bluetooth stack up and running on your Gentoo box. # emerge -p gpsd # hcitool scan Scanning … 00:0B:0D:6E:65:8A iBT-GPS # sdptool browse 00:0B:0D:6E:65:8A Browsing 00:0B:0D:6E:65:8A … Service Name: SPP slave Service Description: Bluetooth SPP…