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March 14th, 2011 by Niels Horn in , ,

I use Qemu for several tasks, but its primary use is for testing programs. It has a wonderful feature called "snapshots", where you can save a known state of the Virtual Machine you can fall back to if anything goes wrong.
For my recent adventure with keyboard layouts I researched several sources on Qemu and noticed [...]

March 13th, 2011 by Niels Horn in

A few days ago the first release candidate of Slackware 13.37 was announced. I updated my -current box and started testing it the same day and until now all seems fine.
I also changed to the nouveau video driver, substituting the closed-source blob from nVidia, using the mesa-7.10 library that sits in /testing for now.
Why use [...]

March 11th, 2011 by Niels Horn in ,

This post explains how to get QEMU working on a host with a pt_BR (ABNT2) keyboard fro Brazil. These keyboards have the "dead" accent-keys and a few modifications that are specific to this layout.
The Problem
For a long time there have been some problems with Brazilian keyboards and QEMU.
In theory, using the standard QEMU, without a [...]

March 3rd, 2011 by Niels Horn in , |

I altered my SlackBuild script for the newly released 3.3.1 version of LibreOffice and the companion "Language Packs".
The new script is in the "pending queue" on SlackBuilds.org waiting for one of the admins to approve it.
In the mean time, you can get it from my site, where I also uploaded pre-built versions for Slackware and [...]

February 13th, 2011 by Niels Horn in , , , |

The year 2011 started with changes and lots of work, so I have been without time to work on most private projects, including the SlackBuild scripts I maintain.
But things are clearing up and I found some time this weekend to update some scripts - the ones most people asked me about
Actually, this was [...]

January 2nd, 2011 by Niels Horn in

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