Monthly Archives: January 2008

Henry Rollins, 21 years later

Posted on by sandklef

I went to see Henry Rollins show at Lorensbergsteatern (Gothenburg, Sweden) yesterday.
During the show, which was really great (not everyone thought so* though) I started to think about the last time I saw him live. It was here in Gothenburg as well. 22 years ago. I was 15 years old (old?) and he was 25.

Henry told some great stories about Van Halen, Ozzy and the The Ruts (check ’em out!) and also some stories from his travels. I miss the rawer energy from the show in 1986, where he talked about the conflict he was in when seeing Bono while walking with his (Henry’s) girlfriend. The fact that he liked his girlfriend and the promise he’d made to his band about what to do when seeing Bono put him in a conflict I wish I could hear him speak about again. During yesterday’s show Henry ranted about Bush, which is always funny. Especially the story about the Mandelas.
*) GP (se), DN (se)

Bush and Mandelas: Bush trodde Mandela var död: “Pinsamt” (se)

swinput report

Posted on by sandklef

I wrote a small linux (kernel) module called swinput a long time ago. Haven’t used myself in for a while. The only time I use it is when addin/altering the synchronising algorithm in Xnee. swinput is used to test Xnee.

Anyhow, just got a bug report. Swinput compiles and install fine. But it doesn’t seem to show up in the right spot in the proc tree. Did I change anything? Have the APIs changed?
Will install ubuntu in some kind of virtual environment to see what’s wrong.

New GNU stuff December 2007

Posted on by sandklef

This is a compilation of the GNU software releases as
announced during December 2007 on the mailing list:

http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-prog

GNU a2ps / 2007-12-29

GNU a2ps is an Any to PostScript filter. Of course it
processes plain text files, but also pretty prints quite
a few popular languages.
http://www.gnu.org/software/a2ps/

GnuPG 2.0.8 / 2007-12-20

The GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) is GNU’s tool for
secure communication and data storage.
http://www.gnupg.org/

GnuPG 1.4.8 / 2007-12-20

The GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) is GNU’s tool for
secure communication and data storage.
http://www.gnupg.org/

glpk 4.25 / 2007-12-19

GLPK (GNU Linear Programming Kit) is intended
for solving large-scale linear programming (LP),
mixed integer linear programming (MIP), and
other related problems.
http://www.gnu.org/software/glpk/glpk.html

coreutils-6.9.91 / 2007-12-15

The GNU Core Utilities are the basic file, shell and text
manipulation utilities of the GNU operating system. These
are the core utilities which are expected to exist on every
operating system.
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/

GnuTLS 2.2.0 / 2007-12-14

GnuTLS is a modern C library that implement the standard
network security protocol Transport Layer Security (TLS),
for use by network applications.
http://www.gnutls.org/

Libidn 1.3 / 2007-12-11

Libidn is a fully documented implementation of the Stringprep,
Punycode and IDNA specifications defined by the IETF
Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) working group, used for
internationalized domain names.
http://josefsson.org/libidn/

Libgcrypt 1.4.0 / 2007-12-10

Libgcrypt is a general purpose library of cryptographic
building blocks.
http://www.gnupg.org/

Libgcrypt 1.3.2 / 2007-12-03

Libgcrypt is a general purpose library of cryptographic
building blocks.
http://www.gnupg.org/

coreutils-6.9.90 / 2007-12-01

The GNU Core Utilities are the basic file, shell and text
manipulation utilities of the GNU operating system. These
are the core utilities which are expected to exist on every
operating system.
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/

If you have any comments or questions regarding this
compilation, contact Henrik Sandklef [email protected]