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Tuesday, February 09 2010 @ 00:14 CET

Emulith

Sunday, January 31 2010 @ 01:15 CET
Contributed by: tingo
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Emulith is an emulator for the ETH Lilith computer. Emulith is a register-level emulation, in C, of the Lilith hardware. You will need a reasonably fast PC running Linux and having at least 1280x1024 resultion. First feedback I got shows that it also runs on OS-X.

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Quick tip: cups - web admin - localhost works, hostname doesn't

Saturday, January 30 2010 @ 23:56 CET
Contributed by: tingo
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In cups if http://localhost:631/ works, but http://hostname:631/ gives you a "400 Bad Request", try this: cupsctl "ServerAlias=hostname". It worked for me. If the server have aliases, you can add them with more cupsctl commands.

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Boomerang Decompiler

Friday, January 29 2010 @ 12:13 CET
Contributed by: tingo
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Boomerang is "A general, open source, retargetable decompiler of machine code programs". Works on Windows and Linux. Doesn't look like much activity on the development front, but the project is interesting.

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SmartQ V5 - media player and more

Wednesday, January 27 2010 @ 21:29 CET
Contributed by: tingo
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I bought a SmartQ V5 (I bought mine from DX). This small device have one interesting feature compared with other devices like this: it comes factory installed with three operating systems: Linux (Ubuntu), Android and WinCE. When you boot, you can choose which os to boot.

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Atomthreads - OpenSource RTOS

Tuesday, January 26 2010 @ 14:40 CET
Contributed by: tingo
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Atomthreads is a free, lightweight, portable, real-time scheduler for embedded systems. It is released under the flexible, open source BSD license and is free to use for commercial or educational purposes without restriction. Currently the ATmega/AVR architecture is supported.

(first seen on OSNews)

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Quick tip: avoid filling up root partion with *symbol files

Monday, January 25 2010 @ 20:49 CET
Contributed by: tingo
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If you put INSTALL_NODEBUG=yes in /etc/make.conf, you will avoid all the *.symbol files (which fills up your root partition) when doing 'make kernel' or 'make buildkernel; make installkernel'.

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Enna - Powerful Open Media Center

Thursday, January 07 2010 @ 15:09 CET
Contributed by: tingo
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Enna is a Media Center application. Featuring a simple user interface, Enna is based on the powerful Enlightenment Foundations Libraries (EFL) as for its graphical user interface and GeeXboX libraries as for multimedia playback and information retrieval. On 2010-01-02 the first public stable release (v0.4.0) was made available.

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TEMPer - USB Digital Thermometer Dongle

Tuesday, January 05 2010 @ 18:13 CET
Contributed by: tingo
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The TEMPer is a low cost temperature probe. The deice consists of a usb-serial chip (WinChipHead, a 24xx02 serial EEPROM LM75 temperature sensor CH341) and a LED (the LED is connected to the thermostat output of the LM75). While the software that comes with the device is only for Windows, other solutions do exist. The first one I found was from Tollef Fog Heen's blog, then from Levien van Zon, and finally Stefan Boethke's TEMPer wiki page. The last one works nicely on FreeBSD 8.0-stable, using the uchcom(4) driver.

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Clue for Linux

Wednesday, December 30 2009 @ 17:31 CET
Contributed by: tingo
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"Clue for linux (clue-dictionary-client) is an application for doing lookups in the dictionary files from Clue Norge ASA. The linux client itself is GPL, but the data are covered by the commercial license which you got when you bought the dictionaries from Clue Norge ASA. It's illegal to use this program with the Clue dictionaries if you do not have a license. You are not allowed to distribute the dictionaries with this program."

So if you own one or more of these dictionaries, now you can use them under Linux too. Cool!

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Quick tip: SqueezeCenter and favorites

Tuesday, December 29 2009 @ 13:15 CET
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 24

First it was named slimserver, then SqueezeCenter, now Squeezebox Server (in ports as audio/squeezeboxserver) and it is still a great product. Anyway, in FreeBSD the server runs under the slimserv user, which is a member of the slimserv group. When you set up a Favorites folder, make sure that this user can write to that folder, or you won't be able to save your playlists and favorites.