This week, I bought a 1TB Iomega drive for backing up purposes. The family laptop is full of photos (one big mess of course, but that is beside the point) and then there is the Popcorn Hour media center that also stores many files that we really do not want Lees meer…
A few weeks passed, and I sat down for some hacking. Here is oculusd version 0.18: the command function prototype has changed; it now also takes a struct connection pointer. This way, the command handler knows a little of the client connected. The ‘alarm’ plugin changed its ever-changing id to Lees meer…
Het is hip om goed voor het milieu te zijn. Dat was een paar jaar geleden wel anders. Toen was het alleen weggelegd voor de geitewollensokken Greenpeace jongens en meisjes. Bomenknuffelen en walvisvaarders torpederen. Nee, nu is het big business. Politici buitelen over elkaar heen om de ene na de Lees meer…
Oculusd 0.17 is here. Fixed a few bugs; the se server could crash on certain configuration errors. Also, repaired a design mistake: hardcoded arguments (which have to be configured, otherwise the event-action connection is not made) are now bound to “actions” instead of “events”. Where they belong. Now I can Lees meer…
9/11 today. Nine years ago the earth stood still in the Western world. Nothing would be the same ever again. The world changed. Of course, nothing would be the same after 23 of october 2003 as well. Or after 2nd of april 1998. Things change. And sometimes, the world changes Lees meer…
Another one I had to figure out by reading the source code: how to make your CakePHP Shell return something else than 0 in $?. It is very easy, if you let your main() return false, your Shell will return 1 in the console. Unfortunately it is not possible to Lees meer…
It is quite easy, but I had to ask on IRC (the very good #CakePHP channel on FreeNode) and browse the CakePHP source code to find it. The welcome message is output by the protected _welcome() call (in cake/console/shell.php). This method is called by the startup() call, which can be Lees meer…
Another quick release. I created an RPM file and changed to installation directories to /usr, instead of /usr/local. The available RPM is x86_64 only, but you are invited to create others. From now on, I will release source and RPM packages. More on the project page.
Oculusd 0.16.1 is a compatibility release. Oculusd is being developed on Ubuntu, but is supposed to run on a wide variety of platforms and distributions. We installed the BitTouch development platform today, to create RPMs and a reference installation (I intend to use the Oculus system myself eventually). This release Lees meer…