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Archive for 2010

May 1st, 2010 by Niels Horn in , |

Introduction
As I wrote in my previous post, looking for a CAD program that runs on Slackware, I decided to check out VariCAD. VariCAD is proprietary software (which means you have to buy it to use it), but they have a fully working Linux version. According to its homepage:
VariCAD is a 3D/2D CAD system for mechanical [...]

April 24th, 2010 by Niels Horn in , |

History
Many years ago (talking about the mid/late 80s) I worked at a company that used AutoCAD for 2D construction designing. This was done on Sun Graphical Workstations that were networked together using a Thick Ethernet coaxial cable and a Unix file and print server. I learned a lot about shell scripting, network configuration, lpr / [...]

April 16th, 2010 by Niels Horn in , , |

Version 2010-01 of the LDraw parts library was released recently, so I created a new easy-to-install Slackware package for it.
As always, shortly after this release, the LeoCad pieces library was also updated, to version 3506.
Both packages can be downloaded from my site.

April 1st, 2010 by Niels Horn in , , |

Last week RRDtool 1.4.3 was released. It solves several minor bugs in the previous 1.4.2 version and adds a few new options. See here for the updated change log.
I updated the SlackBuild script and submitted it to SlackBuilds.org. Pre-built packages for Slackware 32+64 bits and ARMedslack can be downloaded from the usual page.

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 [...]