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January 29th, 2010 by Niels Horn in , |

Some days ago I read some messages on the SlackBuilds mailing list about problems with building FBReader on 64-bits Slackware and the right location of the libraries. At first, I had no clue what FBReader was, I was just interested in the technical problem and how it was solved.
I decided to build the program and [...]

January 9th, 2010 by Niels Horn in |

Sometimes you want to share some pictures from an event with your friends, family, etc. With modern cameras the files are simply too big to send them all by e-mail. There are several free sites available, like photobucket, flickr and picasa where I have accounts that I have used in the past.
But all have their [...]

January 4th, 2010 by Niels Horn in , |

As you probably noticed, I changed my blog a bit. The biggest change is not in the visible part, but in the software that runs this blog.
After just over a year on Google's Blogspot, I decided to run my blog on my own site instead of redirecting it. And since I am a strong believer [...]

December 31st, 2009 by Niels Horn in , , |

After some requests, I created a Slackware package with the lgeo parts library. It can be downloaded from my site.
If you prefer, you can download the library from the author's website and use the SlackBuild to create your own package.

December 24th, 2009 by Niels Horn in , , ,

Some time ago I promised to give some basic instructions on how to create nice images of Lego constructions with POV-Ray on Linux. Now that Christmas is arriving, I finally found some time to convert my own instructions into something that can almost be called a "tutorial"
What will you need:

LeoCAD - to "build" [...]

November 30th, 2009 by Niels Horn in , |

Today (*) a new version of QComicBook was released - 0.5.0. The release announcement can be read on freshmeat.
I submitted a new SlackBuild script to SlackBuilds.org. The previous one, for version 0.4.4, won't work as the author has changed to using cmake.
If you can't wait for the SlackBuild to be approved, you can download complete [...]

October 15th, 2009 by Niels Horn in , , |

If you like to read comic books you might know about the enormous collections of digitalized copies that float around the internet. Normally they are in '.cbr' or '.cbz' format, actually simple rar'd or zipped collections of images.
To read them on your computer, you can either unpack the file and use a standard image viewer, [...]

October 11th, 2009 by Niels Horn in , , ,

After exchanging a few e-mails with the author, I have managed to build Slackware packages for LeoCAD, both 32 and 64-bits versions.LeoCAD is a wonderful piece of software to create your own Lego constructions virtually on your computer - with an unlimited amount of pieces It can import and export LDR (LDraw) files, and [...]

October 6th, 2009 by Niels Horn in , , , |

Today I finished the Slackware packages for POV-Ray, the Persistence of Vision Raytracer, a fantastic free tool for creating stunning 3D images.It can be used also for creating beautiful images of your Lego creations. In a future post I might write a small "how-to" with step-by-step instructions, but here is a small example:
As always, the [...]

October 19th, 2008 by Niels Horn in , , , |

This is what makes computing fun - you learn something new every day.
Today there was a post on LinuxQuestions.org by w1k0, who reported something strange with the Linux logo on his ThinkPad T60. The colors were all wrong (Tux had a green belly, blue background) and… to the left-side there was an inscription saying "Simon".
I [...]