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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
December has been a busy month until now and probably will continue like this…
But today is Christmas, a good day to give some new packages to my visitors
Recently version 1.6 of lbench was released, a benchmark utility.
And last week version 2.9.0.3 of snort, the Intrusion Detection software, and version 0.5 of daq, the [...]
Earlier this month Zarafa released version 6.40.3 of their Collaboration Platform, fixing several bugs and introducing a few new features. For more detailed info, check the ChangeLog on the Zarafa forum.
I already submitted the new SlackBuilds for the server product and the webaccess module to SlackBuilds.org and uploaded the packages to my site.
The third Beta release for LibreOffice 3.3.0 happened about a week ago, but only now I had some time to resubmit the SlackBuilds and create the packages.
As with the previous Beta2, I created the packages from the binary RPM distributions and uploaded packages for the base LibreOffice suite and for the en_GB, pt_BR and nl [...]
Version 0.4.3b of Fritzing was released already some time ago, but only now I had some time to take a look and create the new packages
The main improvements of this version are:
much easier on the eyes, faster, and smaller files: reduced rats nests
no more jumper wire/item confusion (got rid of the legacy ‘wires’)
new [...]
Version 0.4 of Hebe, the KDE GUI for Hercules, was released recently.
It brings the following improvements:
New Image tool bar with actions similar to the Linux console panel
New improved, bigger status bar with CPU selector
If a suspend file is found, an option to resume is offered
Here is a screenshot of the new version, running the standard [...]
Dutch guy living in Brazil. Has worked in the IT business since it was invented (well, almost...). Interests: Slackware, Lego, Star Wars.