Posts Tagged ‘software’

Software improvements

Sunday, June 27th, 2010

Hey there people, how you’ve been? 
These days I see there were some popular software updates.  
First few days ago firefox said it updated itself so I guess guys from mozilla did some coding and patches and now current is ff 3.6.4.  
EDIT: Actually I just went to mozilla site again and it says that it’s up to 3.6.6  
 
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Then I went visiting some of official websites of programs and I see VLC media player reached 1.1.0 so I grabbed source and gone compiling long long time till I get it working on (k)dpup since I was determined to compile it with gui this time – last time I compiled v 1.0.5 without GUI and used sc0tman’s GTK frontend which is quite good actually – full of options, but today I made a pet for 1.1.0 with both Qt and skins2 interfaces enaled and you can get pets for dpup here.  
 

This version seems quite fancy – new gui brings playlist integrated into interface and tray icon with controls and option to minimize to tray with popup notify balloons on song/item change. Plus, as always it has great support for both playing and streaming many audio/video formats and remains in the very top of media players beside mplayer. Very cool. 5 stars for the videolan team. 
 
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Finally, the most popular blogging and publishing tool reached a round version number of 3.0. Yes, I’m talking about WordPress here and am currently testing it locally – did a clean install – before I update it from my dashboard.
Seems like it also has some new surprising features but haven’t yet tested it much – compiling and testing VLC took the most of my time today :)  
 
 
 
OK, that’s it, stay well people. ;)
 
 

Multiuser puppy linux 4.2.1 is out!

Sunday, October 4th, 2009

Pizzasgood released his multiuser puplet:
Multiuser Puppy Linux 4.2.1 and also submited detailed documentation on how to build it in this thread!

Download: puppy-4.2.1-MULTIUSER.iso
Mirror: puppy-4.2.1-MULTIUSER.iso
MD5SUM: puppy-4.2.1-MULTIUSER.iso.md5

Weechat 0.3.0 final in couple days

Friday, September 4th, 2009

Weechat is the command-line IRC client that doesn’t lack features, it even has split windows function, so you can have more buffers split vertically or horizontally if you’re connected on more channels simultaneously plus it looks nice, especially if you run it inside some transparent terminal. Version 0.3.0 should be up for download in sunday, so I’ll compile it for puppy 4.x and dpup 476, I had a little chat in #weechat on freenode, and they pointed me which are core plugins that must come with weechat, so I can make separate packages to reduce package size. I also mentioned it would be nice to have pc speaker beep in core app instead adding that with perl scripts. Dpup uses perl 5.10 so the package I made on 4.1 which uses 5.8.8 won’t load my beep plugin and it sucks to recompile for specific perl version just to enable beep. I’m no coder but I think users like to minimize chat when they’re idle and beep is very basic feature to have. But, let judges decide about that. It’s certainly not planed for this release. Anyway, weechat seems to become very popular, most of users who try it like it, not only console geeks :)