Looking for an OpenGL documentation for package in Ubuntu? To begin, what would the package be named? My instincts told me to try gl-doc, libgl-doc, and eventually moved into the territory of libmesa or xorg. Obviously none of these worked. Out of despiration I tried dpkg -l | grep gl | grep doc, and there …
Torrent Freak is running a story about the always controversial The Pirate Bay. This time it’s BREIN and the outcome is that the previous owners are ordered to restrict access for dutch users, as well as delete a listing of torrents provided by the anti-piracy organization. Bay supporters and the torrent community, as usual, are concerned about the …
I’m getting mixed opinions about what kind of doc tags to use in the Compiz project. Overall there are two choices that everyone seems to be okay with. In no particular order the two most popular methods are: /// /// This does that /// Or /** * This does that */ The latter is nice …
Here is an early look at some of the changes I’ve been investigating as documentation continues on the new Compiz 0.9 branch. The community and development team are pretty awesome folks, and I would like to take a moment to thank everyone in the IRC, Forums, and Planet. This graph is simply information I collected …
There is a GNOME Applet included by default in Ubuntu that allows you to adjust your CPU scaling frequency, which most hardware supports. You can right click any panel and select Add to Panel, then select the CPU Frequency Scaling Monitor applet. This is a misleading name because it does more than just monitor the …
I was on the Compiz Forums looking for an area so that I can get onto their Planet Compiz, since I’ve been doing a little bit of development in that area. Then I saw this post titled Creating your own Iron Man (Tony Stark) Desktop and I had to “investigate.” That led me to these really awesome …
In the past we’ve kept our political opinions off this site, because we didn’t want it to interfere with our business. With the political climate we live in today we think it’s important to represent what you think is right in a sea of wrong. In the past I had started a Facebook group with some other …
In between the massive changes to the site (see my twitter) and setting up new developer relationships, I was inspired to work with Compiz Fusion – or what most now just call Compiz. I’ve always wanted to do some plugins, but the problem is jumping into their largely undocumented API. That’s changing a bit now, …
I’ve been using SDL for a long time in C++, and I’ve toyed sdljava, which are rather complete bindings for SDL for Java. While the bindings are rather complete, they where created using SWIG, which is a (great) code generator, but still the result is that these bindings are kinda clunky and rather bloated. For …
Leaves are falling, it’s okay to wear costumes for a day this month, and Ubuntu 9.10 will be released under the name Karmic Koala. Before I get into some review, it’s hard for me to anticipate this release because of the recent history with this distribution. Over time I’ve seen Ubuntu improve in many ways, …