Random thoughts, tips & tricks about Slackware-Linux, Lego and Star Wars

Archive for January, 2010

January 29th, 2010 by Niels Horn in , |

Some days ago I read some messages on the SlackBuilds mailing list about problems with building FBReader on 64-bits Slackware and the right location of the libraries. At first, I had no clue what FBReader was, I was just interested in the technical problem and how it was solved.
I decided to build the program and [...]

January 28th, 2010 by Niels Horn in |

One more update before wrapping up: Zabbix released version 1.8.1
As suggested by upstream, I do not offer pre-built packages for the server, so I suggest you all wait for the SlackBuild to get out of the pending queue.
Packages for the new agent can be downloaded from my site already.
If you are upgrading from a previous [...]

January 27th, 2010 by Niels Horn in , |

Another package has been updated, this time for ldglite version 1.2.4
It's a simple version update that corrects some small bugs.
As always, packages can be downloaded from my site while the SlackBuild is in the pending queue.

January 27th, 2010 by Niels Horn in , |

The parts library for LeoCAD has been updated and now contains 3.299 pieces.
The updated Slackware package (~ 14MB) can be downloaded from my site.

January 27th, 2010 by Niels Horn in |

A new version of HerculesStudio, the Hercules GUI front-end for Linux, has been released. It has some nice new features like editing your devices directly, and several new icons:

The updated SlackBuild is in the pending queue, but for those who cannot wait, pre-built packages for Slackware can be downloaded from my site.

January 15th, 2010 by Niels Horn in , |

I built a new package with LDraw_data for Slackware, containing the latest (200903) library from ldraw.org. Check my site for the pre-built while the SlackBuild is in pending.

January 9th, 2010 by Niels Horn in |

Sometimes you want to share some pictures from an event with your friends, family, etc. With modern cameras the files are simply too big to send them all by e-mail. There are several free sites available, like photobucket, flickr and picasa where I have accounts that I have used in the past.
But all have their [...]

January 4th, 2010 by Niels Horn in , |

After some DNS troubles, the new blog is up & running
Something went wrong when I canceled the "CNAME" entry in the DNS server that pointed "underpop.online.fr/n/nielshorn" to the old blogspot site. When I created the new "underpop.online.fr/n/nielshorn" subdomain I couldn't get it to point at my own server. :-/
But with a little help [...]

January 4th, 2010 by Niels Horn in , |

As you probably noticed, I changed my blog a bit. The biggest change is not in the visible part, but in the software that runs this blog.
After just over a year on Google's Blogspot, I decided to run my blog on my own site instead of redirecting it. And since I am a strong believer [...]

January 2nd, 2010 by Niels Horn in |

2009 is gone, 2010 has started.
Lots of sad news here in Rio, after all the rain that has fallen here over the last few days, but life goes on
In just a few days I will officially be on vacation, so I might not have too much time to write here, but I still [...]