geekinfo.net - ...for all that other stuff

...for all that other stuff

User Functions
Username: Password: Lost your password?

Upcoming
There are no upcoming events

Welcome to geekinfo.net
Friday, July 30 2010 @ 01:03 CEST

History: MacPaint and QuickDraw source code released

Wednesday, July 21 2010 @ 11:49 CEST
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 5

From the Computer History Museum: "...we are pleased, with the permission of Apple Inc., to make available the original program source code of MacPaint and the underlying QuickDraw graphics library.". Wow - that's a real piece of history, in many senses of the word.

Post a comment
Comments (0)

PXE Booting Utilities With FreeBSD

Saturday, July 17 2010 @ 10:37 CEST
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 8

A new article by Warren Block: PXE Booting Utilities With FreeBSD. From the introduction: "Numerous useful utilities like Clonezilla, HDT, and FreeBSD’s "memstick" are available as bootable images. A PXE boot server can make these utilities more convenient and accessible. With PXE, no external media is needed, just boot the target computer from the network. We will set up all of the components necessary to provide PXE booting to any computer networked with the FreeBSD server. Instead of simply booting a single install CD image, this setup will boot into a menu with multiple utilities.". Very Nice!

Post a comment
Comments (0)

Alexandria - manage your book collection

Friday, June 11 2010 @ 21:02 CEST
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 27

If you need to catalogue your books, Alexandria is a cool solution. It will look up books online, from several providers, including Amazon (you need an AWS account - free) based on search parameters or ISBN numbers. A FreeBSD port of Alexandria exists too. Very cool!

Post a comment
Comments (0)

ZBar bar code reader

Friday, June 11 2010 @ 19:04 CEST
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 30

ZBar is an open source software suite for reading bar codes from various sources, such as video streams, image files and raw intensity sensors. It supports many popular symbologies (types of bar codes) including EAN-13/UPC-A, UPC-E, EAN-8, Code 128, Code 39, Interleaved 2 of 5 and QR Code.

read more (7 words) Post a comment
Comments (0)

SmartQ V5 - upgrade to Android 2.1

Wednesday, June 09 2010 @ 16:19 CEST
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 40

And then I upgraded my SmartQ V5 to Android 2.1 preview. It looks better, it was easier to change into English language, and touch screen response is much improved. Update: WiFi works great at home (my WLAN is secured with WPA), but it didn't work as good at an unsecured (open) WLAN, it kept dropping the connection all the time.

Post a comment
Comments (0)

SmartQ V5 - upgrade to V5 Android V3.0

Wednesday, June 09 2010 @ 14:33 CEST
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 51

I upgraded Android on my SmartQ V5 to "V5 Android V3.0". After the upgrade, the language was Chinese again. To fix, start settings (press the menu (middle) button once, then select the icon to the right), scroll to the bottom of the list, then select the second-lowest (second last) item, on the next menu, select the first (upper) item, then select the language you want. Phew. Well, the "about phone" still says that it is Android 1.6 with kernel 2.6.29 on it after the upgrade.

Post a comment
Comments (0)

7-Zip

Wednesday, June 09 2010 @ 12:03 CEST
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 25

7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio. 7-Zip works in Windows 7 / Vista / XP / 2008 / 2003 / 2000 / NT / ME / 98. There is a port of the command line version to Linux/Unix. Supported formats:

Packing / unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR
Unpacking only: ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, DEB, DMG, HFS, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MSI, NSIS, RAR, RPM, UDF, WIM, XAR and Z.

Very useful.

Post a comment
Comments (0)

Open Circuits

Wednesday, June 09 2010 @ 00:19 CEST
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 27

Open Circuits is a cool place. There you can find projects like the SD Card bathroom scale, Free Telephony Project, LART, Niftymitter, U-Disp and more. Wow!

Post a comment
Comments (0)

Native ZFS for Linux?

Monday, June 07 2010 @ 12:59 CEST
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 32

The headline is Native ZFS Port for Linux, and there is some truth to the story. Some truth? Well, yes, not all pieces to have zfs native on Linux is in place, and it isn't production ready yet. Still, it is an interesting project.
(first seen on OSnews)

Post a comment
Comments (0)

FreeBSD 8.1 Beta 1 released

Thursday, June 03 2010 @ 12:55 CEST
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 35

FreeBSD 8.1 beta 1 was released on May 29th, 2010. Announcement, 8.1 release schedule, current status.

Post a comment
Comments (0)

First | Previous | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 | Next | Last

Who's Online
Guest Users: 5

What's New
STORIES No new stories COMMENTS last 2 days No new comments LINKS last 2 weeks No recent new links