Finally, NetBSD Boots in KVM!

August 29, 2010 - 1 min read

Compared to OpenBSD and FreeBSD the NetBSD install was hard, really hard. It wasn’t until I stumbled across this that I managed to convince myself to try it again. The trick seems to be to ignore as much as you can from other Internet tips. NetBSD runs fine in KVM, so if someone says you need to run it in Qemu mode — don’t believe the hype. OK, in virt-manager there is no preset defaults for NetBSD, so I went with a generic OS and tried starting the install from there.

Minix editline v1.14.0

August 12, 2010 - 2 mins read

It is with great pleasure I announce the next release of the editline library by Simmule Turner and Rich Salz! This is a popular library, it exists in several forked versions. This release marks the end of a huge effort where archaeological methods have been applied to recover fixes and improvements developed independently over several decades by the following projects: Heimdal, Festival speech-tools, Debian, as well as patches by Mr. Steve Tell.

Micro Tetris™ v1.2.0

August 2, 2010 - 1 min read

New release of Micro Tetris™, v1.2.0, available for download now! Noteworthy changes and additions: Preview display fixes by Mattias Walström Next level triggered after every 10 cleared lines Speed increase by each level Display high score at game over High score recorded to save file Pause key fixed, again by Mattias Walström Online GIT repository and release tarball available at the usual places: github:tetris.git (Main GIT) vmlinux:tetris.git (Backup) tetris-1.2.0.tar.bz2, MD5 (FTP) See also the Freshmeat page for a more consistent updates.

Minix editline moves to GIT

July 19, 2010 - 1 min read

A small heads-up, I’ve migrated the Minix editline project from Bazaar to GIT. The new URL for keeping tabs on your favourite free readline() clone is: http://git.vmlinux.org/editline.git/ I’m currently working on fixing up the tree and doing some house cleaning — including making more stuff configurable — before releasing a 1.14.0 later on. One such item is the integration of libtool with our autoconf friends. This should make it lot more portable (again) and also help smooth a merge with other sources for this library.

Git Quickie

July 13, 2010 - 1 min read

This is a document I intend to maintain for my own purposes. It serves as a quick reminder for the steps needed when creating and working with git repositories. First setup a bare repository on the server. $ git --bare init projectX.git Initialized empty Git repository in /pub/git/projectX.git/ Set one-liner description, visible in gitweb. $ echo "Secret project, use ROT13 to decode source code" >projectX.git/description Set up a post-update hook so that the server repo is update automatically when you push to it.

Converting from Bazaar to GIT

July 13, 2010 - 1 min read

You need git, and bazaar obviously. Also install bzr-fastimport, it contains the export plugin as well. The rest is a rip off from Frank’s page. $ git init project.git $ cd project.git $ bzr fast-export --export-marks=.git/bzr.mark ~/project.bzr | git fast-import --export-marks=.git/git.mark That worked for me. The output will likely be something like this: 01:41:19 Calculating the revisions to include ... 01:41:19 Starting export of 33 revisions ... 01:41:20 Exported 33 revisions in 0:00:01 git-fast-import statistics: --------------------------------------------------------------------- Alloc'd objects: 5000 Total objects : 267 ( 0 duplicates ) blobs : 158 ( 0 duplicates 57 deltas) trees : 76 ( 0 duplicates 55 deltas) commits: 33 ( 0 duplicates 0 deltas) tags : 0 ( 0 duplicates 0 deltas) Total branches : 10 ( 1 loads ) marks : 1024 ( 33 unique ) atoms : 38 Memory total : 2344 KiB pools : 2110 KiB objects: 234 KiB --------------------------------------------------------------------- pack_report: getpagesize() = 4096 pack_report: core.

Syntax highlighting in less

May 9, 2010 - 1 min read

Yes, it’s certainly possible and source code becomes so much easier to read. Try it out by: downloading my .lessfilter save it as ~/.lessfilter in your $HOME Profit! Ahem … Just try it out on a C source file :-) less -R myfile.c

HowTo: Move window buttons back to the right

May 1, 2010 - 1 min read

When you’ve installed Ubuntu 10.04 you might want to have the window controls back to the right side, where you’re used to having them. Use the following simple command: gconftool-2 --set /apps/metacity/general/button_layout --type string "menu:minimize,maximize,close"

Best. Programming. Font. Ever.

April 26, 2010 - 1 min read

This is not only a reminder to myself, it is appraisal to the probably best programming font ever: Inconsolata. Thank you so much, Mr Raph Levien! On the previous laptop I used ProFont quite extensively, but its screen was only 1280x800, on the new laptop I have 1680x1050 and ProFont just got too small for my aging eyes. For more tips on fonts, see Top-10 Programming Fonts and KeithDevens.com.

Oona 6 years old!

June 14, 2009 - 1 min read

Wow, this friday (June 12th) my daughter turned six! I can hardly believe it is six years since she came into our lives, time has gone by so quick … when she was born we still lived in Västerås, now she has a younger brother and we live in a great house in Skultuna. Happy birthday, Oona! I wish you all the best now that you’re starting first year of school after the summer vacation.