HackNBlog @ Salamanteri Server

On the right is one of the wallpapers I found on Bablotech blogs article 12 Wallpapers in which linux criticizes windows. While I personally have little use for wallpapers, beeing user of Ion3 Window manager, I know that many visitors here might find these amusing :)

To quote osnews.com article Nokia To Add LGPL to Qt Licensing Model…

After Nokia purchsed Trolltech last year, doubts arose about how Nokia would handle the dual licensing model of Qt, the advanced cross-platform toolkit which lies at the base of the KDE Free software desktop. As it turns out, these doubts were unfounded, as Nokia today announced it’s going to add the LGPL to Qt’s licensing model, starting with Qt 4.5.

…and the press release…

The move to LGPL licensing will provide open source and commercial developers with more permissive licensing than GPL and so increase flexibility for developers. In addition, Qt source code repositories will be made publicly available and will encourage contributions from desktop and embedded developer communities. With these changes, developers will be able to actively drive the evolution of the Qt framework.

Personally I’m eager to see if this will result in code exchanging between the GTK and Qt projects - something that the licensing has prevented before. It would seem logical and beneficial to both sides to take on that path but only the future will tell…

My phpinclude plugin seems to have been success. Only 1 day after release I’ve already have almost 79 visitors on the page and several downloads just from this site. I guesss large part of the success came from adding my plugin to WorddPress Plugin Database @ wp-plugins.net and reviewing my plugin page on my StumbleUpon favorites so big thanks to social media! =)

I found some sites even mentioning my plugin (leaving out the obvious ones mentioned above):

• Weblog tools collection, post WordPress Plugin Releases for 12/22
  The page listed several plugins but a user had even commented mine (not to mention that it was the only comment when I looked. Apparently he had been looking for something like this for some of the same reasons I created it and he had even tried some plugins trying to achieve somehing similiar.
• WordPress Planet apparently lists new plugin entries from different blogs. It’s kind of pathetic to mention this here because my plugin was mentioned in entry from Weblog tools Collection, which I listed just above

Noothing else this time, I’m just happy about my success. Will this get me fame? Possible. Money? Not likely. Happiness through rocognizion: Definately.

I’m proud to have released my first WordPress plugin, phpinclude… It allows to include any file apache can access into your post or page. Including PHP files it also executes them. Naturally there is some security settings to make sure that only editors authorized for that can do it. You can check the overall info, view syntax highlighted source and download the plugin at Software / Wordpress Plugins / phpinclude page. Naturally it’s released under GNU GPL license.

Also, if you havent glanced the “Quick News” list on the left of the posts you might want to know that I have released a proramming example of DOS tree command implemented for *nix bash shell in Shell Scriping subsection. So to check tree.sh, go through any of those or go straight to tree.sh for full info and that syntax hihlighted fabulous source (I make a joke, hehe).

I bumped into heart warming article, File your open source code with Linux Defenders, at zdnet.com’s blog site. To put it out in sort, the article advices to file your OSS source code at LinuxDefenders.org “to prove your authorship of open source code and protect it from patent trolls” - an important step bacause otherwise your great application may, in future, become illegal in some of the silly countries where software can be given patents (even if those filing the patent were not the inventors if they are first to file). Even worse, if you live in country that recognives software patents you may be in big trouble.
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Yes, you read it right, Linus-blog, not Linux… What I actually meant was not that some random Bob has started a fan-site/blog about Linus but that it’s Linus Torvalds own blog… The future of it’s content is still unknown and currently is ran on test basis…

…but whatever, you should go and read Linus’ blog anyway, decide if you like it or not and… well, do what you do :)

This package is obsolete unless you still use Debian Etch

Edit: This release of Worker file manager is obsolete since February 14, 2009 when Lenny became the current stable Debian version - unless you have configure your APT to stay at Etch or have not ran apt-get dist-upgrade or some other packet managers update routine since by default it upgrades automatically to current stable. Lenny currently has this same version of Worker in Debian repository.

Ok, I’ve added a software download archive here some days ago already. Software page lists software I’ve made available with download links to them and Download archives just plainly lists the packages/files available for public. In future I will also provide, among other files, my own software creations, but lets start with Debian package of something not yet available on stable/etch:

Worker 2.16.5 for Debian etch/stable (i386)

I made this package when I noticed that the version of Worker available for stable branch of Debian is dated back in 2005 - and among other things lacks the support for UTF-8 encoding. There was more fresh package available for testing-branch (lenny) but installing that would require installing other library dependencies from “testing”. I did not like the idea of that so I compiled my own deb-binary package that does not depend on anything not available for current stable branch of debian (as side note, it propably runs fine on ubuntu too, please confirm if you try it).

Here’s copy of original package description of this software (because I’m too lazy to describe with my own words):

highly configurable two-paned file manager for X

Worker is a file manager much like the Amiga’s DirOpus. It can be controlled with mouse or keyboard. There is no restriction on the number or type of button functions. Files are recognized by both extension and content, content by recognizing common bytes in the sample files you show it. Drag & Drop is supported.

If xli or imagemagick is installed, it quickly previews pictures in the opposite pane. If x11-utils is installed, xmessage is used to display some informative messages.

If at all interested read the rest of this post or just head to the software download page for binary .deb and source files for building your own package or if you just want the binary, just down it right here:

  worker_2.16.5-1_i386.deb (1.1 MiB, 262 hits)

I feel mad! I feel mad because of legal issues on playing DVDs on Linux with open source software. Issues that are really based on nonsense, misclaims and misunderstandings that I’ll try to address along this rant.

But first: I made a page with guides on how to install different players on different linux distributions. Only two now but you can help by writing more instructions. So please check out Full DVD support on Linux guide.

I decided to write this after Finnish Court of Appeal overturned earlyel court decision making it basically illegal to view DVDs on Linux. The basis on this is total nonsense but there are similiar problems on some other countries too. Let me explain why it is wrong, does not make sense and why (in my opinion) nobody should care about the software beeing “illegal” when concidering using linux system to view DVD’s.
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A friend noted me today that it’s funny that I carry all my posessions with me wherever I go… I found the comment amusing, specially because it’s partially true.

I decided to tell what is so special in it. I’m a punk rock-like person and a hacker and what I always carry on my bag is following:
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