Yet Another Waste of Space

Pidgin 2.9.0 fixes a remote denial of service vulnerability. I’ve built a new package for Slackware63 13.37. The binary package is available from the package website and the build script from the SVN repository.

Enigmail is an addon for Thunderbird and Seamonkey that allows for reading and sending encrypted and signed emails. The only official Linux download of this addon is for the 32-bit x86 architecture. In order to use it with a 64-bit browser in Linux users need to either compile it themselves or download a contributed package. [...]

A new stable branch of Wireshark, 1.6.0, has been released. I’ve built a new package for Slackware64 13.37. The binary package is available from the packages website, and the SlackBuild script is available from the SVN repo.

Today version 2.8.0 of Pidgin, the multi-protocol instant message program, was released. My package for Slackware64 13.37 has been updated to this latest version. My package is different from the stock Slackware package in that I provide Voice & Video chat support. Grab the binary package from the package website or the build script from [...]

razercfg is a set of utilities for configuring certain Razer mice in Linux. It uses a daemon running in the background to handle the communication with the mouse. Two programs are provided for users to manage the configuration: a command line tool and a GUI tool. The build script is available here and the binary [...]

Currently I use vim and Geany as my editors of choice for just about everything. However, having options is almost always a good idea. Looking around for good open source code editors and IDEs, I ran across Bluefish, which I haven’t used in a number of years; and CodeLite, which is new to me. I [...]

Over the past couple of days I’ve been working out the kinks in the new “improved” build system for LibreOffice 3.4 (which was released yesterday). While the end result of version 3.4 may be a leaner, meaner, faster product, the build and packaging process seems to have taken a step backward from previous LO and [...]

I have a Sansa Fuze v2 digital audio player that I bought a few years back for peanuts. It’s been a great little device for listening to my music while on the go, and it doesn’t lock me in to vendor-specific applications for managing my music collection like some other players on the market. The [...]