For many years I’ve been a fan of GTK. I started using linux with GTK1 was dominant, as I became a developer GTK2 took over, with beautiful themes and very usable widgets. I used GTK software, feeling that the philosophy of the people who write GTK apps matches my own: less fluff and more stability. …
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I decided to decorate my office a little, and since I’ve always been a Slackware user I wanted to get a large Slackware sticker to put on my glass. I couldn’t find one, so I made it myself, here’s the result: I had to construct the SVG file myself. I started from the Linux penguin …
Continue reading Slackware penguin stickerA couple of months ago I got a Nexus 5 to play with. I was generally impressed with the device, but a couple of things gave me pause, one of them I’ll talk about now: you can no longer set up your phone to act as a USB mass storage device when connected to a …
Continue reading How long before you can’t access your files on an Android phone?Took me a half a year to finish this video. It’s my first exercise in video editing. Enjoy! It took me this long because: The only program I had any idea how to use was Windows Movie Maker. But I didn’t want to use it for several reasons that should be obvious to you. My …
Continue reading FSOSS 2013 Robots CompetitionCompared to part1 and part2, DKIM took a lot of effort to understand. The concept is relatively simple but the documentation is shit. It doesn’t help that there are at least three implementations of DKIM, though eventually (after some days) I figured out OpenDKIM is the only one that still matters. In typical open source …
Continue reading Setting up Sendmail on a dynamic IP, part3: DKIMEven though I had a decent mail server set up and running, other people’s stupid spam filters are starting to cause me headaches, so after looking around for solutions I found two things that may alleviate (and perhaps completely solve) that problem. The first is SPF. The idea is that the receiving mail server will …
Continue reading Setting up Sendmail on a dynamic IP, part2: SPFI’ve been running my own mail (SMTP/IMAP) server for many years now and more recently decided to do something about all the retarded mail servers out there that classify messages from me as spam for no good reason. Typical corporate BS – “you’re not massive corporation like us so piss off”, but at the end …
Continue reading Setting up Sendmail on a dynamic IP, part1: go through ISP’s SMTPYears ago I worked hard on creating an easy to use Audio CD ripper. I started from an abandoned project (Asunder) and brought it a long way, it’s now one of the favourite CD rippers on Linux. I got some interesting news about the project recently. Raphael Guyot has ported Asunder to ARM! Why on …
Continue reading Asunder for ARMI post something on this blog occasionally about APNG and about how I’m no longer involved with it and about how this guy Max Stepin has been driving it for years. The last thing I mentioned on the topic was him adding APNG support to Chromium, which was very cool. Now he’s planning to create …
Continue reading Kickstarting APNGI used to have a Sansa Clip Plus. After years of awesome service the clip from the Clip Plus broke off, which made it much less useful. For the last year I have been using a Sansa Clip Zip – a much newer model. I wasn’t as happy with it as I was with the …
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