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
Saturday, September 11 2010 @ 00:40 CEST

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

Monday, January 25 2010 @ 20:49 CET
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 100

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'.

Post a comment
Comments (0)

Enna - Powerful Open Media Center

Thursday, January 07 2010 @ 15:09 CET
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 142

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.

read more (51 words) Post a comment
Comments (0)

TEMPer - USB Digital Thermometer Dongle

Tuesday, January 05 2010 @ 18:13 CET
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 333

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.

Post a comment
Comments (0)

Clue for Linux

Wednesday, December 30 2009 @ 17:31 CET
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 101

"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!

Post a comment
Comments (0)

Quick tip: SqueezeCenter and favorites

Tuesday, December 29 2009 @ 13:15 CET
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 219

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.

cbmbasic - Commodore BASIC V2

Saturday, December 26 2009 @ 04:35 CET
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 92

Here is an odd one: cbmbasic is a 100% compatible version of Commodore's version of Microsoft BASIC 6502 as found on the Commodore 64. You can use it in interactive mode or pass a BASIC file as a command line parameter. It runs on Mac OS X, Linux and Windows. I don't know why anyone would want to run C-64 basic on a modern computer (hint: input needs to be in uppercase), but it can be done. Strange.

Post a comment
Comments (0)

FreeNAS - revived

Friday, December 25 2009 @ 21:46 CET
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 108

FreeNAS will survive.iXsystems will be the new sponsor, supporting the project with developers and development resources. They are dedicated to keeping FreeNAS on FreeBSD, and on keeping zfs support top notch.

MythTV 0.22 - now in FreeBSD ports

Sunday, December 20 2009 @ 19:08 CET
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 144

MythTV version 0.22 is now in FreeBSD ports. Yay! Time to test and upgrade my mythtv backend with the new version. There are currently three ports: mythtv, mythtv-frontend and mythtv-themes.

Post a comment
Comments (0)

FreeBSD 8.0 released

Friday, November 27 2009 @ 07:13 CET
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 135

FreeBSD 8.0 has been released. Release announcement, release notes and errata. Some new things:

new usb stack - Ground-up rewrite of USB, including USB target support.
802.11s D3.03 wireless mesh networking and Virtual Access Point support.
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.0R/errata.html

And there is more - check it out. Yes!

Nostalgia: Altair 8800 emulator and CP/M

Tuesday, November 17 2009 @ 23:07 CET
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 82

Wanna run CP/M again? Like they did in the old days? Well, you can, with the Altair 8800 simulator, which is part of the SIMH family of simulators. I addition to the CP/M operating system, you can run MP/M, NZ-COM (Z-System), Z3PLUS, TurboDOS, 86-DOS, CP/M 86, Concurrent CP/M 86 and MP/M 86 and OASIS. You can chose from a lot of programming languages, like Ada, Algol, APL, Basic, C, Cobol, COMAL, Forth, Fortran, Lisp, Modula-2, MUMPS, Pascal, PILOT, PL/I, PLMX (PL/M).

The original Altair 8800 was a cool machine too.

Post a comment
Comments (0)

First | Previous | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 | 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