Archive for the Category "Linux"

After 15 years of development, Wine 1.0 has been released. Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X, OpenGL, and Unix. While perfect windows compatibility has not yet been achieved, full support for Photoshop CS2, Excel Viewer 2003, Word Viewer 2003 and PowerPoint Viewer 2003 have been among the goals prior to the release.

Visited the IAS in Maribor today. It was raining so the actual air attractions were limited. You can check out the official gallery here.

Also on site was the Slovenian military showing off their gadgets, you can see the pictures i took after the jump.

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Working on the same principle as the last mjpg_stream implemenation, here it is: a portace plugin !

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Recently i decided to opensource one of my scripts i have been using in the past.

Features:

• No Mysql needed,
• Admin page included but limited to one user/password;Adding, deleting files; adding folders,
• Lightbox,
• Automagic thumbnailing,
• You can also turn off administration and use FTP to upload images, once pages with new images are accessed, thumbnails will be created.

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After couple of hours, here is it: A libcaca extension to Mjpg-Stream[singlepic=141,300,200,,][singlepic=140,300,200,,]

You need img2txt from the libcaca-utilities and /dev/shm to be mounted and writable (or change to another location)

/dev/shm is present on most systems and is a mounted filesystem located on the main ram.

The source is in past the page brake.

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The past few days i looked at ways could use my Logitech Quickcam Pro 5000 USB Webcamera. Skype 2 did a nice job using all its features, including to my surprise, the integrated microphone.

Installing the driver/module was a piece of cake, goto http://linux-uvc.berlios.de/ pickup the latest stable and do the usual compile&install, then load the module.

You may need to reboot at this point.

Now some testing was in order, pickup the luvcview viewer (you need libsdl-dev packages to compile). Make it, then you can run it just by ./luvcview ( if you have more video devices installed, you may need to set the according device it needs to read, see readme ) or install it with a quick ‘sudo cp luvcview /usr/local/bin/’ for later reuse.

Ok, i got the cam running, i can see myself, and i can chat to people with Skype, what next ? (If it didnt work for you at this stage, the next steps wont help you.)

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A new version of Inkscape, the SVG editor is available for Linux. Although a windows version is still in production, lets check out a bunch of new stuff in this version:

Top of the list is a neat perception tool, you can see its results in the top right of this web page’s design. The new, and long awaited bucket fill works just like any other bucket tool you might have used in any other program, but its advanced filling options might just give it the edge.

The tweak tool gives you a quick way to morph, shrink/grow attract/repel shaped without worrying about nodes.

The usual horizontal and vertical guidelines have become angled at 0/90 degrees. To change to a different angle, just double-click the guideline you want to change and enter the values.

Skeletal brushes are now possible with the new path on part effect. Anyone for engraving ?

Also, new built in stroke patterns and a interface to OpenClipArt.org.