Posted in January 1, 2010 ¬ 22:33h.RainCT
I’m joining the hype of presenting little new projects there seems to be those days, unleashing the first version of espeak-gui, a graphical interface to let the computer read out text. Why, when, who? The project started almost a year ago when, out of curiosity on what writing Python bindings for C/C++ libraries is like, [...]
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Posted in December 10, 2009 ¬ 17:19h.RainCT
I don’t really play much, but of the few games I know Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory is probably the one with which I’ve spend the most time so far. By featuring multiple player roles (soldier, engineer, medic, etc.) and, even while being multiplayer, nice objective-based scenarios, it provides for much better experience that many other more [...]
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Posted in October 24, 2009 ¬ 23:10h.RainCT
Una mica més tard del que tenia previst, però continuo el meu apunt sobre com arreglar paquets de l’Ubuntu que no compilen amb un primer exemple pràctic (o més que exemple, amb un cas real). El paquet triat, seleccionat de la llista de paquets que no compilen, s’anomena necpp. Procedim a seguir amb els passos [...]
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Posted in October 6, 2009 ¬ 18:49h.RainCT
El passat cap de setmana va tenir lloc l’Ubuntu Global Jam i l’equip català d’Ubuntu va aportar-hi el seu granet de sorra. Així, va tenir lloc una marató de traducció i, per la tarda, també es va fer una mica d’introducció a l’empaquetament de programes amb un exemple pràctic: com arreglar un paquet que no [...]
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Posted in September 4, 2009 ¬ 21:25h.RainCT
By now most of you should have noticed that nifty feature that Add/Remove applications and Synaptic got a few months ago – being able to fetch a screenshot for every package, as can be seen in the image below. What maybe isn’t that well-known is, where do those images actually come from? Easy: they are [...]
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