Yet another activity graph : how often do you emerge ?
Really, I seem to be fond of activity graphs those days. I have reused part of this previous code, but this time I parse the emerge log file to display the activity of your successful emerges. Think of...
View ArticleMercurial bulk update
I don’t know about you, but I have on a lot of different places a directory called ‘hg’ with lot of different mercurial clones inside. Whether on the home of my several computers for my own projects,...
View ArticleFirst release candidate for Opale
One of my pet projects (A simple bank account manager focused on graphs and planning) is about to reach 1.0. This first release candidate has been tested on several Linux systems and Windows. It can...
View ArticleQuest for gdc in gentoo
It took me quite some time (and some grep) to find out how to install gdc on gentoo, so here is the answer for those facing the same problem. gdc is a gcc font-end for the D language, which has some...
View ArticleSupport for ‘long double’ in Qt tests.
Qt supports most types for most compilers…… but long double. I do not know why. When asking on #qt (IRC), people say that nobody seems to care. Well… I do. long double have some use in scientific...
View Articleupdating to KDE 4.2.1 : delete your plasma files (again)
Thanks to the great work of the gentoo KDE packaging team, I have been able to update to KDE 4.2.1 yesterday. And since then, a couple of processes suck up all my CPUs. The first one is a well-known...
View ArticleFixing qmake missing rule for *.ts -> *.qm
We are used to polished and great tools from the trolls, but qmake has always been the big exception to this: ugly documentation, lot of undocumented tricks, and missing features. For me the biggest...
View Articlemercurial and ipv6
Today I needed to use mercurial over IPv6 in order to share a repository which is on a computer behind an (ipv4) firewall, but that can be reached over ipv6. The naive hg clone...
View Articletags displayed in hg activity extension
Today i have added a feature to my hg activity extension. I have wanted to have this for long : the tags are now displayed on the graph. Here are two examples, one of the project itself, and another...
View ArticleInstalling an avr cross compiler in gentoo
One could think that this is as easy as crossdev avr but it is not, so i write here how I did it for future reference, and hopefully this will also be useful to other people. The first problem is that...
View ArticleWonders from a KDE fan and developer about some KDE design choices
Technologies going forward.. Twenty years ago, I was reading some books about Unix at the local library. By the time, it was really difficult for me to see, touch, or test an actual unix system and...
View ArticleHow to use flex and bison with qmake (my own way)
qmake (sort of) supports lex/yacc, but modern people prefer to use flex/bison. If you google, you can find some tricks like convincing qmake that yacc is spelled ‘bison’ and so on. Morever qmake...
View ArticlePlaying with clang and Qt
You might know that there’s a new kid in the C++ compilers list ; clang. Llvm has been around for quite some time, but until recently the only way to make use of it was through the somehow cumbersome...
View ArticleAnnouncing colibri 1.0 alpha1, a mailing list manager with a django based web...
It has been more than one year now that I’m running my own mailing list software here at freehackers, and I think it is now time to release a first preview of it. Let me introduce Colibri 1.0 alpha1...
View Articleannouncing qxv
Well… you know how it is, you get used to a tool, and even if some brand new software is now available, you keep on using this old stuff. In his case, i’m speaking of xv, whose last release was in...
View ArticleHow to detect Altivec availability on linux/ppc at runtime
It is easy to find information on how to detect the availability of the different SSE instructions sets on the x86 platform.. but this get trickier when you’re looking after AltiVec. This page provide...
View ArticleA small step forward for the mercurial activity plugin, releasing version 2.0
As time goes, my mercurial ‘activity’ plugin has got more and more options. Useful and requested options of course, but still it kinda clobber the –help output and it is more and more cumbersome to...
View ArticleEmergeActivity gets a graphical interface: releasing 2.0
I’m still using this small utility that displays the activity of ’emerges’ on the misc gentoo boxes I’m admin for. I’ve wanted to add a graphical interface for very long, but did not have the time…...
View ArticleNew lightweight admin-oriented linux kernel mercurial mirror
On most servers I’m responsible for, I use to compile my own kernels. Instead of downloading/applying patches, which is cumbersome, I was using the (now broken) mercurial mirror...
View ArticleCelery init scripts for Gentoo
I’m using django-celery on a project. The only difficult part was that gentoo ebuilds would not provide init scripts. It might be that some ebuilds in some obscure overlay provides those, but this was...
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