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I have come to discover over the last 2 years, living in a residential college at the University of New England, that our my nemesis the devil is a fan of attrition warfare. I am surrounded day and night by people who worship just about anything you care to name except the true God. Sex, alcohol, skill in video games (no, seriously) or even just their career.
The tempting ...
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A random image from the blender website's user contributed gallery
I have just this morning found the motivation to have another crack at doing some digital artwork with the open source 3D modelling and animation suite called Blender (blender.org). I decided to have a look at the latest version's changelog to see if there'd been much development since I looked at it last....
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I have a large collection of music I have ripped from my CDs into OGG Vorbis format over the last couple of years. I like Vorbis and Theora as codecs, they have a very good compression/quality ratio going on. I am also very adamant about supporting open file formats (for Free or non-Free software) because it allows more people to exchange and use information to its fullest extent and p...
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DVD Authoring with DeVeDe Posted at 2:40PM on 22/7/08
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I tried a program called DeVeDe today which aims to make basic DVD authoring very simple on a linux (and apparently windows) PC. It was the simplest interface for creating a DVD with titles, chapters and a menu that I've ever seen.
And while the menu is just a static background with a list of selectable titles, this is really all I need. I mean the video play...
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I just installed the latest version of ventrilo (3.0.1 Win32 Client) on Ubuntu Hardy and I'm pleased to tell you all that it worked out of the box.
Ran the installer through wine and run the app with:
padsp wine Ventrilo.exe
Havin a yarn to all my WoW addicted college buddies. Good stuff....
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I have now installed the final release of Ubuntu 8.04 (hardy) which uses PulseAudio by default. The verdict in plain english:
It Rocks.
The simple awesome point:
Now I can be playing a game, chatting in a VoIP client and listening to music all at once - on the one sound card.
The technical details:
Linux sound has been a mess for some time.<...
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I've been enjoying playing all kinds of games on Linux through wine for a while now, but one thing that has always bugged me a little is the inability to "have my cake and eat it too" as it were in terms of sound.
It has become basically second nature to me to run "killall esd" before trying to start any wine game. I continually get frustrated by forgetting that I have listen (m...
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Site Downtime Posted at 1:54PM on 26/2/08
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Sorry about the site being down for the last couple of days, my web host had a mix-up with invoices and thought I had not paid the domain registration fee.
Site is back in all its glory....
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XWii - Wiimote with Linux/X11 Posted at 10:28PM on 15/12/07
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That more exciting project I mentioned last post has started to come together. It is an X11 "driver" for the Nintendo Wii Remote and peripherals.
There are other projects that seek to provide Wii Remote support in Linux, but when I tried to set up CWiid, I had a lot of trouble with the library and found that to use the IR Pointer effectively (I am a big fan of Virtua Cop) ...
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Ever wondered how to do it? Here's some code I came up with this morning after reading through the Xlib manual online for a while.
#include
#include
using namespace std;
int main(int argc, char *argv
It will take two integers as input and move the mouse pointer to those coordinates on the screen. I plan t...
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