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Archive for 2010

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 [...]

October 25th, 2010 by Niels Horn in ,

LibreOffice
So you installed one of the beta versions of LibreOffice and it seems to work fine. But you had OpenOffice.org running in your local language and can't get used to "File", "Tools", etc. menus and want them back in your own language you got used to after all these years.
Language Packs
The Document Foundation does not [...]

October 23rd, 2010 by Niels Horn in ,

Is it possible to change the boot logo in Slackware?
This is a question that pops up once in a while on IRC and the forums, and the answer is yes, but there are some little details to take care of.
I made a step-by-step how-to once for myself, so I thought I might as well put [...]

October 23rd, 2010 by Niels Horn in , |

Today DVDAuthor 0.7.0 was released.
It has several new options for locale encoding and subtitles. The complete ChangeLog can be read here.
I tested this new version with tovid and DeVeDe, the two front-ends I use for DVDAuthor, and everything worked fine.
The updated SlackBuild has been submitted to SlackBuilds.org and the pre-built packages are available on my [...]

October 19th, 2010 by Niels Horn in , , |

Fixing problems with Linux systems is something I like. I've been in the support business for most of my professional life, and solving a difficult problem still gives me that satisfaction
The system
Recently I upgraded a system that was still running Slackware 13.0. It's a not-so-new system, but should be good enough to serve [...]

October 15th, 2010 by Niels Horn in , |

The Document Foundation released a binary tarball of the second beta version of LibreOffice 3.3.0
Packages for both the 32- and 64-bits versions are available on my site. Remember that it is still a beta release and is not recommended for production.

October 12th, 2010 by Niels Horn in , , |

Yesterday I installed Slackware on a computer that came with a Debian-derivative installed. Nothing against Debian, but I'm more used to Slackware, and the hard drive had enough space left…
This box is an all "no-brand / low-price" system, but has very reasonable specs: Quad-core AMD GHz processor, 4GB memory, 400GB hard drive, NVIDIA 6150SE nForce [...]

October 11th, 2010 by Niels Horn in ,

When experimenting with the new Snort version 2.9.0 I ran into some problems with Barnyard2. It would simply crash with errors like:
ERROR: Unknown record type read: 104
Fatal Error, Quitting..
I started looking for information on the internet (Google is our friend…), and found out that at least I was not alone
Similar problems
Basically, I found [...]

October 10th, 2010 by Niels Horn in , , |

A few days ago Snort 2.9.0 was released. The official announcement can be read here.
This new version brings some essential changes to Snort that needed special attention.
New dependencies
libdnet is a "simplified, portable interface to several low-level networking routines" and has a SlackBuild on SlackBuilds.org.
daq is a new "Data Acquisition library" that can use several [...]