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

Archive for March, 2010

March 30th, 2010 by Niels Horn in , , |

A new version for Zabbix - the open source enterprise monitoring solution - was released yesterday. This new version (1.8.2) solves some bugs in the previous version and introduces some new features and improvements. For the complete announcement, check this link.
I submitted the new SlackBuilds for the server and agent parts to SlackBuilds.org. Pre-built packages [...]

March 27th, 2010 by Niels Horn in , , |

The guys that are developing FBReader are releasing so many updates that it is difficult to keep my SlackBuild and packages up-to-date!
Only a few days ago I mentioned the new 0.12.7 version and they're already at 0.12.9
The new version resolves some bugs and improves the Smashwords library support. The code is also compatible [...]

March 23rd, 2010 by Niels Horn in |

I created several packages for Slackware that can be downloaded from my site. Of course, some are more popular than others. To have some idea what people actually download from my pages, I created a counter that increases whenever someone requests a file. These counters started on August 30th, 2009.
I planned to create a simple [...]

March 22nd, 2010 by Niels Horn in , , |

A new version of FBReader, an e-book reader with functions to download books from some popular sites, has been released.
Version 0.12.7 is mainly a bug-fix release, but it also add some extra support for ePub files.
The new SlackBuild script is in the pending queue on SlackBuilds.org and pre-built packages for Slackware 32-bits, 64-bits and ARMedslack [...]

March 21st, 2010 by Niels Horn in |

My hosting provider is updating its MySQL boxes, so some services might suffer small periods of unavailability. If you have problems accessing one of these services, please try again some time later:

This blog
Downloading Slackware packages, page statistics, etc. from my main site
My TRS-80 Wiki

These interruptions will occur during the coming week and should last a [...]

March 13th, 2010 by Niels Horn in , |

In a previous post I wrote about this little program I found called statifier.
This program can create a "statified" version of an executable program, that will be portable (so that it won't need the locally installed libraries). This also serves in many cases to make 32-bits programs executable on a 64-bits installation.
A new version was [...]

March 13th, 2010 by Niels Horn in , , , |

A new version of sdltrs, the TRS-80 emulator (originally based on xtrs) was released recently.
It adds the new "turbo mode", that can be switched on and off with the F11 key and reorganizes the disk numbering.
I submitted the new SlackBuild script to SlackBuilds.org and pre-built packages (Slackware 32 & 64-bits + ARMedslack) are available from [...]

March 11th, 2010 by Niels Horn in , , |

Today version 3.07 of Hercules, the System/370, ESA/390, and z/Architecture Emulator for Windows, Linux and Mac OSX, was released.
Since I use Hercules on an almost daily basis, I quickly downloaded the latest sources and prepared the new Slackware packages and SlackBuild script. The script is already in the "pending" queue, and the packages are being [...]

March 6th, 2010 by Niels Horn in , , |

Already a few weeks ago the Geeqie team released the first stable version of this image viewer, a fork from gqview, included in many Linux distributions.
The original gqview program had some bugs, but development had stalled some time ago. But lucky for us, some guys picked up this project and created a new program that [...]