Category Archives: The wonderful world of free software
The little things…
LaTeX is full of wonderful features, many of them slightly hackish to make us feel 1337. But some minor issues are rather annoying. My favourite peeve: Fonts. Installing a font in LaTeX is too painful. I avoid the issue. What … Continue reading
Datorjävlar!
I dag hatar eg datamaskinar. Dei som har lyst til å vita kvifor kan prøva å få convert(1) til å konvertera ei EPS-fil til høgoppløyst PNG. I dag hatar eg datamaskinar. Dei som har lyst til å vita kvifor kan … Continue reading
Pie chart your disk
Even though ordinary pie charts are evil, this little program called Filelight is still able to be very useful and nifty. And it’s not really using pie charts, either. It just looks like it. The point isn’t the pretty diagram … Continue reading
Oops.
I noticed the other day that my old weblog had been comment-spammed. So I twisted my spamkiller scheme to it, and set it off. Boom, lose ~7K spam messages. And, accidentally, all valid comments as well. Oh dear. Well, can’t … Continue reading
Gallery galore
I’ve started trying out the Gallery package to get a useful online gallery and not the five-ish crappy self-made things I’ve had so far. You can watch my progress if you like, though there’s nothing interesting there yet. Note the … Continue reading
GNOME 2.10. Whee.
GNOME 2.10 is out. Since somebody were kind enough to drop a list of a thousand or so place-names into GNOME 2.8, I had quite a bit of work last time doing very uninteresting translations in order to get above … Continue reading
Clash of titan-wannabes
It would appear that Thunderbird is tipping over into ever so slightly better than Evolution. It would appear that Thunderbird is tipping over into ever so slightly better than Evolution.
It’s out!
The ego has landed. GNOME 2.8 Desktop & Developer Platform The ego has landed. GNOME 2.8 Desktop & Developer Platform
A C++ interpreter and a use-case.
The CINT C/C++ Interpreter is precisely what it sounds like. Mostly works, and has some minor syntax extensions. Not entirely useless when writing in this language, though I haven’t tested fancier features like using external compiled libraries and suchlike. It’s … Continue reading
A selection of things that are wrong with C++.
I’ve found an anoying thing in C++. It’d seem that vectors lack a erase(int i) method, so that I have to use the erase(iterator iter) method instead. But since I still need to count with an int in my for … Continue reading
C++
Have to learn C++ for this job. Looks not too bad so far, I’d say. I kinda like OOP, particularly the easy-to-grasp data structures it allows and the improved namespace segregation compared to C. Course, since I haven’t done anything … Continue reading
Kingdom of Loathing