April 24th, 2010 by Niels Horn in CAD, Slackware | No Comments »
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 / [...]
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April 16th, 2010 by Niels Horn in LDraw, LeoCAD, Slackware | No Comments »
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.
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April 1st, 2010 by Niels Horn in ARMedslack, RRDtool, Slackware | No Comments »
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.
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