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Archive for November, 2010

November 28th, 2010 by Niels Horn in , |

The third Beta release for LibreOffice 3.3.0 happened about a week ago, but only now I had some time to resubmit the SlackBuilds and create the packages.
As with the previous Beta2, I created the packages from the binary RPM distributions and uploaded packages for the base LibreOffice suite and for the en_GB, pt_BR and nl [...]

November 21st, 2010 by Niels Horn in |

Another week has passed, so it's time for some news on nHex-Ed
The third alpha release of nHex-Ed offers several new features, bringing it close to what I had in mind for the first "real" release of this little hex editor.
The following items are new or improved:

Completely rewritten menu routines, with shortcuts and direct-access [...]

November 21st, 2010 by Niels Horn in , , , |

Version 0.4.3b of Fritzing was released already some time ago, but only now I had some time to take a look and create the new packages
The main improvements of this version are:

much easier on the eyes, faster, and smaller files: reduced rats nests
no more jumper wire/item confusion (got rid of the legacy 'wires')
new [...]

November 21st, 2010 by Niels Horn in , , |

Version 0.4 of Hebe, the KDE GUI for Hercules, was released recently.
It brings the following improvements:

New Image tool bar with actions similar to the Linux console panel
New improved, bigger status bar with CPU selector
If a suspend file is found, an option to resume is offered

Here is a screenshot of the new version, running the standard [...]

November 20th, 2010 by Niels Horn in , ,

Windows XP and newer versions have the standard feature of "sharing" access to the desktop from remote computers. This is very easy to set up and no extra software is required on the computer that is sharing or the one that is accessing the desktop - as long as they are both running Windows…
I needed [...]

November 20th, 2010 by Niels Horn in , , , |

The beginning of this month a new version of Snort was released - 2.9.0.1. The companion Data Acquisition library (daq) was also upgraded to version 0.3.
I updated my SlackBuilds and installed the new versions on my server. I waited a bit before releasing the packages as there had been some reports on a new "Unknown [...]

November 13th, 2010 by Niels Horn in |

Work continues on my little hex-editor…
Although a lot still needs to be done, I decided to release a second alpha version, as the first one has been downloaded quite a few times already.
This second test version brings:

A "find" function (still not the way I want it, but for now it's working)
"Goto" to jump directly to [...]

November 11th, 2010 by Niels Horn in , |

After my post about the "Unknown record type 104″ problem in Barnyard2, I received several e-mails recently about a new error that started popping up:
ERROR: Unknown record type read: 110
I had not seen this one myself, but did some quick investigating and found out that it is a new record type in Snort 2.9.0
This new [...]

November 7th, 2010 by Niels Horn in |

Only a few days ago I mentioned my work on nHex-Ed, the rewritten hex-editor.
I managed to get the code in a reasonable state this weekend and it is now available for download from its new homepage.
Feel free to take a look, compile it using the normal configure / make / make install sequence and tell [...]

November 3rd, 2010 by Niels Horn in , |

HN_Hex-Ed
I wrote about my little Hex Editor before, but somehow this subject still comes back… It is still being downloaded several times a day (more than 2.000 downloads only this year!).
Evolution
Although I haven't done any programming in Windows for years, and Hex-Ed has received it's last update in 2004, I still receive requests once in [...]