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January 27th, 2010 by Niels Horn in , |

Another package has been updated, this time for ldglite version 1.2.4
It's a simple version update that corrects some small bugs.
As always, packages can be downloaded from my site while the SlackBuild is in the pending queue.

January 27th, 2010 by Niels Horn in , |

The parts library for LeoCAD has been updated and now contains 3.299 pieces.
The updated Slackware package (~ 14MB) can be downloaded from my site.

January 15th, 2010 by Niels Horn in , |

I built a new package with LDraw_data for Slackware, containing the latest (200903) library from ldraw.org. Check my site for the pre-built while the SlackBuild is in pending.

December 31st, 2009 by Niels Horn in , |

When Slackware released its first test version of Slackware64, I installed it on a separate partition to try it out. I was immediately impressed by the performance boost of some programs, especially some graphic programs I use.
Since I compile most programs that are not available on a standard Slackware installation from source, I didn't have [...]

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 25th, 2009 by Niels Horn in , |

I created an updated package with the LDRAW Library of Lego pieces that includes all parts up to September, 16th, 2009.
The "unix-complete" file from ldraw.org has not been updated for years, so this package was based on the Windows file "complete.zip" but can be used without any problems under Slackware.
As always, the package can be [...]

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" [...]

December 21st, 2009 by Niels Horn in , |

For those who use LDView on Slackware-current and noticed that it suddenly stopped working: the problem is in the latest update of the "boost" library:
+---------+
Thu Dec 17 20:51:37 UTC 2009
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l/boost-1.41.0-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
This latest update does not include the *-mt (=multi-thread) libraries, as the "normal" version is already multi-threaded.
The solution to get LDView working again is simply [...]

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 [...]

November 29th, 2009 by Niels Horn in , , , , , |

I've been busy over the last few weeks evaluating some software to monitor servers, network utilization, etc. I have tested several programs and ended up using three: nagios, cacti, and ntop.
All of these are free & open software. For nagios and cacti you can download SlackBuild scripts from slackbuilds.org maintained by me. For cacti, if [...]