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Terminal Enhancements
About Who likes to get error messages? Can’t there be some sort of a way to get rid of them, and your app would still work? This is where Terminal Enhancements comes in. It will make it easier to use...
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Firefox and Thunderbird 5, 6, 7 and 8!
If you ever wanted to be up to date with the world’s leading Internet software provider, here are some PPAs you can install: All of the instructions below are Terminal commands. Firefox 5.0 (Stable):...
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A new Ubuntu-based OS is currently under development!
We (Raja Genupula and I) have been making an OS that will integrate the Web seamlessly with the OS. Think of it like in between Chrome OS and a normal environment. UPDATE: The new name is CosmOS!...
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Relinux – An easy way to create a Linux distro
Note: I know this post is a mess, I’m sorry. I’ll try to fix it sometime soon Remastersys has been around for a long time, and though it hasn’t been updated in a long time (EDIT: It was dead, but now...
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How to install free alternatives to Minecraft
Well, I haven’t posted for a long time, but I have been very busy in all kinds of projects. Anyway, I’ve recently tried Minecraft, and I have to say it’s a pretty fun game. The problem is the cost, and...
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shbuild – An alternative to GNU Make… using shell scripts
I’ve been trying to find a make alternative or interface using more common languages, and so far, the only one I’ve found was waf (which, IMHO, wasn’t well documented and overly complex). Maybe I...
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bfdk – A brainf*** development kit
Yes, I know, yet another compiler/interpreter for brainf***… we all know how many there are, we all know how easy it is to write, etc… First, you have to know, that was my 3rd application written in C,...
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extract-xxx – An easy way of extracting XXX/FIXME’s
First: The “Why”. Well, it’s because when I write code, I usually don’t have the time (or the patience) to write everything perfectly, so I usually just write in a small XXX, TODO, or FIXME for later....
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SythOS – An experimental collaborative OS
A rather long time ago (around a year and a half), I wrote a post about a system I was making which was supposed to be a cloud-based OS, named CosmOS. I didn’t really develop it that much, as I had a...
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I’m quitting relinux
I will start this off by saying: I’m very (and honestly) sorry for, well, everything. To give a bit of history, I started relinux as a side-project for my CosmOS project (cloud-based distribution …...
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Estsaver – A fast, flexible, and beautiful screen saver and locker
About Estsaver is a new OpenGL-based screen saver and locking framework, designed to be fast, lightweight, and fully extensible. Like most other frameworks, you can customize the screensaver as you...
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Estsaver v0.1.2 – First “stable” release, plus a website!
After a bit of work, there is finally a stable release for estsaver! The changes between 0.1 and 0.1.2: More options for controlling the vignette in the “minimal” screen locker Prevent estsaver from...
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The importance of freedom in software
Software license agreements (EULA) are generally considered little more than a confirmation on whether or not the user really wants to install said software. Heck, for all that most users care, it...
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Using Openlux to help your sleep and/or relax your eyes
If you are familiar with research suggesting that blue light affects your sleep, you might also be familiar with a (free!) software named f.lux. I use it on my iDevices (used to use it on my computers...
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Idea: Non-windowing display server
For the TL;DR folk who are concerned with the title: It’s not an alternative to wayland or X11. It’s layer that wayland compositors (or other) can use. As a quick foreward: I’m still a newbie at this...
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Follow up on the non-windowing display server idea
Note: I’m sorry, this post is a bit of a mess. I wrote a post 2 days ago, outlining an idea for a non-windowing display server — a layer that wayland compositors (or other programs) could be built...
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Why Openlux instead of Redshift?
First, I want to clarify that this is not a post trying to show that one is better than the other unequivocally. This is, instead, a post trying to show my reasons for writing openlux, and the...
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Collaborative Track Idea
I really, really want to make open-source music. Or rather, open-source musical projects. Software is never truly finished… and neither is music. It’s difficult to do it though, since the way music is...
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tlock – Simple, but slightly prettier alternative to vlock
Admittedly, the title might seem a bit weird. I mean, it might as well say “Simple, but slightly prettier alternative to cat”. I’m still not sure how that would work (ascii boxes??) XD So what makes...
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Injecting code into running process with linux-inject
I was about to title this “Injecting code, for fun and profit”, until I realized that this may give a different sense than I originally intended… :P I won’t cover the reasons behind doing such, because...
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