I have written a small module for the decoding of Palm® Datebook database files: palm_db.erl and palm_db.hrl. Datebook database files contain all the appointments of a Palm® PDA. Note that it can only decode database files that have been archived by a synchronization software. It does not implement a synchronization conduit, i.e. it cannot do synchronization … [Read more…]
I have made Debian packages for the Adeos ipipe patches found the Adeos website. These package are meant to replace (but do not conflict with) the kernel-patch-adeos official package available in Debian, which has not been updated since August 2005 and does not allow to install multiple versions simultaneously and to select them in a flexible … [Read more…]
I have refactored gtkNode, the Erlang interface to GTK+ 2, which I have been “playing with” recently. The most significant is that I have used GNU Autoconf and Automake to redo the configuration and build framework. I have used my Autoconf macros for Erlang in gtkNode’s configure.ac configuration file, to simplify configuration. To compile the source … [Read more…]
I have just submitted a patch to Autoconf, on the Autoconf patches mailing-list, which allows to easily: auto-configure paths to Erlang/OTP tools (erl and erlc for now); determine the paths of the installed Erlang/OTP environment and of installed libraries; determine paths for installing built Erlang modules; use Erlang as an Autoconf test language (and it is … [Read more…]
gtkNode is part of Jungerl, the “the Jungle of Erlang code,” i.e. a bag of unrelated pieces of Erlang code. gtkNode is a wrapper for the native GTK+ library, version 2.x. gtkNode is intended as a replacement for Erlang’s standard gs GUI application which is based onTcl/Tk. I am not a fan of GTK+ or … [Read more…]
I just inadvertently found a trick to scroll faster using a scrolling wheel mouse in anything that can be scrolled in KDE application, e.g. in the list of emails in Kmail, in the list of articles in aKregator, in a long web page displayed in Konqueror, in a long text displayed in Kwrite, etc. Just … [Read more…]
One may experience strange font sizes in X Window (e.g. “logically 8 point fonts” characters that are physically displayed at 15 points or more), or when printing. For instance, in KDE problems like those described in some KDE bug reports may appear. The problem is that the precision of the display (in dpi) is not … [Read more…]
To disable a plugin in NanoBlogger version 3.2 one must rename the plugin script, e.g.tidy.sh, to modify its extension (by convention into .off). In the nanoblogger Debian GNU/Linux package, plugins are installed in the/usr/share/nanoblogger/plugins/ directory. In order to enable/disable plugins, it is therefore necessary to rename files in that directory, e.g. for the tidy.sh plugin: … [Read more…]
This post describes how to compile, package and install the Xenomai real time Linux extension (previously called RTAI/Fusion) version 2.0 on the Debian GNU/Linux sid distribution on an IA-32 computer. Xenomai is the continuation of RTAI‘s previous development branch called Fusion, that has been split from RTAI on 2005-10-08. Fusion / Xenomai is now independent … [Read more…]
The first official release (version 2.0) of Xenomai is available since 2005-10-24 from the Xenomai web site. Xenomai is the continuation of the previous RTAI development branch called Fusion. Xenomai / Fusion has been split from RTAI on 2005-10-08.