Monthly Archives: June 2008

Esjbjörn Svensson dead ….

Posted on by sandklef

I was shocked to read that the great Swedish Jazz musician/composer Esbjörn Svensson was found dead yesterday (Saturday 14 June 2008). I am not a big Jazz fan, but EST‘s  and especially Esbjörn way of hitting the piano keys is truly magic. One of Sweden’s greatest musicians is not with us anymore.

This is indeed a tragedy.

Using ommunication tool in different places

Posted on by sandklef

I wotk at two different places, meaning two different computers. Add to that the private laptop (mainly for FSFE FSCONS and GNU Xnee work) plus the family desktop. The sum is 4 computer which I use actively more or less on a day to day basis. The locally installed tools I use for communication are: icedove and pidgin.

Adding one person to your Address book or Buddy list to your computer means I have the person in one computer only. Remedy is version control, accessible over the net. So far I’ve been version controlling some of the files for pidgin. Worked out quite nice. Having added ‘robban’ I now decided to take the step to version control everything in pidgin, including the logs. After that follows icedove versioning. Let’s see how everything works out.

Wish there was a simple way to have you private PGP key easily available over the net 😉

New GNU stuff May 2008

Posted on by sandklef

This is a compilation of the GNU software releases as
announced during May 2008 on the mailing list:

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

GNU Wget 1.11.3 / 2008-05-29
GNU Wget is a free software package for retrieving
files using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP, the most widely-used
Internet protocols.
http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/

Bison test version 2.3b / 2008-05-28
Bison is a general-purpose parser generator that
converts an annotated context-free grammar into an
LALR(1) or GLR parser for that grammar.
http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/

GNU Typist 2.8 / 2008-05-27
GNU Typist (also called gtypist) is a universal
typing tutor.
http://www.gnu.org/software/gtypist/gtypist.html

GNU AutoGen Version 5.9.5, AutoOpts Version 31.1 / 2008-05-25
GNU AutoGen/AutoOpts is a two-part project that serves
two separate purposes.  The two parts are combined
because they are inextricably intertwined
http://www.gnu.org/software/autogen/

GnuTLS 2.2.5 / 2008-05-19
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/

GnuTLS 2.2.4 / 2008-05-19
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/

GNU Cgicc 3.2.6 / 2008-05-18
GNU cgicc is an ANSI C++ compliant class library
that greatly simplifies the creation of CGI
applications for the World Wide Web.
http://www.gnu.org/software/cgicc/

GNU Robots 1.1.0 / 2008-05-15
GNU Robots is a game/diversion where you construct a
program for a little robot, then watch him explore a
world.
http://www.gnu.org/software/gnurobots/

GNU CLISP 2.45 / 2008-05-15
ANSI Common Lisp is a high-level, general-purpose
programming language.
http://www.gnu.org/software/clisp/

Zile 2.2.59 / 2008-05-13
GNU Zile, which is a lightweight Emacs clone.
http://www.gnu.org/software/zile/

GNU Guile 1.8.5 / 2008-05-07
Guile is an interpreter for the Scheme programming language,
with support for many SRFIs, packaged for use in a wide
variety of environments.
http://www.gnu.org/software/guile

GnuTLS 2.2.3 / 2008-05-06
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/

GNU SASL 0.2.26 / 2008-05-05
GNU SASL is a modern C library that implement the
standard network security protocol Simple
Authentication and Security Layer (SASL).
http://josefsson.org/gsasl/

GNU ghostscript 8.61.0 / 2008-05-05
Interpreter for the PostScript language and the
PDF file format. A set of C procedures that implement
the graphics capabilities. A wide variety of output
drivers for various file formats and printers.
http://www.gnu.org/software/ghostscript/

GNU ghostscript 8.62.0 / 2008-05-05
Interpreter for the PostScript language and the
PDF file format. A set of C procedures that implement
the graphics capabilities. A wide variety of output
drivers for various file formats and printers.
http://www.gnu.org/software/ghostscript/

GNU Libtool 2.2.4 /  2008-05-04
GNU Libtool hides the complexity of using shared
libraries behind a consistent, portable interface.
http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/

GNU Wget 1.11.2 / 28-05-01
GNU Wget is a free software package for retrieving
files using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP, the most widely-used
Internet protocols.
http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/

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