Category Archives: Open Source
Jaunty Jackalope on Asus Eee PC 1008HA
Two days ago, during a time of intensive writers block, I went out and bought an Asus 1008HA to use as a lightweight writing machine and surf station. Since I brought it home I have removed Windows XP and installed Ubuntu Jaynty Jackalope (both standard desktop edition and netbook remix) and Intel’s Moblin 2.0 without [...]
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Open Source Economics
Yesterday I had my lunch in front of the computer at the office and since I'm easily bored by just sitting and eating by myself, I fired up Safari and browsed to TED.com for a little meal entertainment. While enjoying my Marinara Meatball sub I watched Yochai Benkler's seminar Open-source economics, which was really interesting. He [...]
Image Grinder Light
In my Projects page I have a description of a tool called Image Grinder wich I'm working on. Since I'm implementing it in C++ and wxWidgets it takes some time (I don't think C++ is a very creative language - don't know why I chose it realy). Today I switched mode of the camera to [...]
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buglix.se » First article
I just now published my first article on buglix.se. It was first published in a Swedish computer magazine back in 2003 so I will probably update this online version a bit when I have the time.
buglix.se » FluxBox – en funktionell lättviktare
I'm still tinkering with the UI of buglix.se so don't be surprised if it [...]
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Portage update checker
Here is a little script I once wrote to check if new updates exists in the Portage Tree (Gentoo). If so, it sends an e-mail to the owner of the script. Run it as a cron job and don't forget to change user_address and smtpserver.
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PYTHON:
#!/usr/bin/python
# Copyright Emil Erlandsson 2005
import os,smtplib
user_address = "receivers address"
smtpserver = [...]
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