Category: Software

Seashore: Open-source Paint for Mac

2010-10-05 / / 0 Comments

Download Seashore.

Coming from Windows, the one thing I miss most (apart from Solitaire) is Paint. Today I stumbled across a neat little open-source Mac-native app called Seashore. Effectively, it’s Paint, for Mac, with a dash of Photoshop/Gimp added for good measure.

Download it from the link above.

Enable Desktop Effects in Kubuntu 10.10 using radeon driver

2010-09-28 / / 0 Comments

Just installed Kubuntu 10.10 on my old ThinkPad T43p. It has an ATI FireGL V3200, which is similar to the Radeon X600. The latest fglrx driver doesn’t support this card anymore, however the open-source ‘radeon’ driver does. The driver is enabled by default in a fresh install of Kubuntu maverick, however KDE desktop effects are not enabled. After some research, I found that “KWin has detected that your OpenGL library is unsafe to use, falling back to XRender.”

The solution then is to force Kwin to enable desktop effects and stop complaining.

Edit ~/.kde/share/config/kwinrc

add

DisableChecks=true
OpenGLIsUnsafe=false

to the

[Compositing]

section

http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.php?topic=3113529.msg240826#msg240826

Thanks to Rog131 of kubuntu forums.

2010-09-13 / / 0 Comments

Message from syslogd@proxmox at Sep 13 10:32:46 …
kernel:You probably have a hardware problem with your RAM chips

Message from syslogd@proxmox at Sep 13 10:32:46 …
kernel:Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason a0.

Message from syslogd@proxmox at Sep 13 10:32:46 …
kernel:Dazed and confused, but trying to continue

AppleWorks on Snow Leopard

2010-07-26 / / 0 Comments

I am happy to report that AppleWorks 6 for Mac OS X runs perfectly on Snow Leopard using Rosetta.

Just be sure to get the latest update from http://support.apple.com/downloads/AppleWorks_6_2_9_for_Mac

Also, if you have problems running the update (hang/freeze), try running it with all network connections disconnected.

Making a SOCKS proxy transparent

2010-07-07 / / 1 Comment

Finally, after about an hour of googling, I found a program that allows a SOCKS proxy to be made transparent. Installed on a router/gateway, this can force all LAN users’ traffic through the proxy.

http://darkk.net.ru/redsocks/

via http://wiki.przemoc.net/tips/linux#making_socks_proxy_transparent

HOWTO: Easily modify dependencies of a .deb file – Ubuntu Forums

2010-06-28 / / 0 Comments 
#!/bin/bash
 
if [[ -z "$1" ]]; then
  echo "Syntax: $0 debfile"
  exit 1
fi
 
DEBFILE="$1"
TMPDIR=`mktemp -d /tmp/deb.XXXXXXXXXX` || exit 1
OUTPUT=`basename "$DEBFILE" .deb`.modfied.deb
 
if [[ -e "$OUTPUT" ]]; then
  echo "$OUTPUT exists."
  rm -r "$TMPDIR"
  exit 1
fi
 
dpkg-deb -x "$DEBFILE" "$TMPDIR"
dpkg-deb --control "$DEBFILE" "$TMPDIR"/DEBIAN
 
if [[ ! -e "$TMPDIR"/DEBIAN/control ]]; then
  echo DEBIAN/control not found.
 
  rm -r "$TMPDIR"
  exit 1
fi
 
CONTROL="$TMPDIR"/DEBIAN/control
 
MOD=`stat -c "%y" "$CONTROL"`
vi "$CONTROL"
 
if [[ "$MOD" == `stat -c "%y" "$CONTROL"` ]]; then
  echo Not modfied.
else
  echo Building new deb...
  dpkg -b "$TMPDIR" "$OUTPUT"
fi
 
rm -r "$TMPDIR"

via HOWTO: Easily modify dependencies of a .deb file – Ubuntu Forums.