In https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/509411 I had the problem, that locking the screen would just not work any more. It turned out that gnome-screensaver must be perpetualy runnung in the background in order to be able to lock the screen. Also this would affect the computer not locking the screen when suspending. It might be that Gnome/Ubuntu are user-friendly, however the bloat is starting to annoy me. Why do I need to be running 214 processes, when the only thing that is actually being used is firefox and a terminal? Read on

osgviewer sample call: OSG_FILE_PATH=/usr/share/osgearth osgviewer --window 50 50 900 700 /usr/share/osgearth/maps/srtm.earth Press ‘h’ for help. See also OSG Wiki osgearth_simple sample call: OSG_FILE_PATH=/usr/share/osgearth osgearth_simple --window 50 50 900 700 /usr/share/osgearth/maps/geopole.earth Press ‘1’-‘5’ for predefined viewpoints. Drag mouse with left+right click for tilt. Read on

Building heartbeat on Solaris is always a pain. This time it took 4 hours for heartbeat 2.1.3 on x86 Solaris 10. Needed packages (from Sunfreeware): autoconf-2.65-sol10-x86-local automake-1.11-sol10-x86-local bison-2.4.1-sol10-x86-local coreutils-8.1-sol10-x86-local db-4.2.52.NC-sol10-intel-local flex-2.5.35-sol10-x86-local gcc-3.3.2-sol10-intel-local glib-2.20.4-sol10-x86-local gmp-4.2.1-sol10-x86-local libgcc-3.4.6-sol10-x86-local libiconv-1.11-sol10-x86-local libintl-3.4.0-sol10-x86-local libnet-1.1.2.1-sol10-x86-local libsigsegv-2.6-sol10-x86-local libtool-2.2.6b-sol10-x86-local m4-1.4.12-sol10-x86-local make-3.81-sol10-x86-local pkgconfig-0.23-sol10-x86-local Create file /usr/local/bin/gnome-config: #!/bin/sh echo "-I/usr/local/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/local/lib/glib-2.0/include -L/usr/local/lib -lglib-2.0" chmod +x /usr/local/bin/gnome-config Fix gcc headers: cd /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/i386-pc-solaris2.10/3.3.2/install-tools/ ./mkheaders Fix hardcoded paths: ln -s /bin/perl /usr/local/bin/perl ln -s /usr/local/bin/true /usr/local/bin/python Patch lib/clplumbing/cl_reboot. Read on

OssimPlanet is an open source project for accurate, high performance, 3D Geo-spatial visualization. Our package for Ubuntu is now available at UbuntuGis! Read on

PostRails is a PostgreSQL database browser and application server. The project was started in the Breakpoint coding session in the beginning of July 2009. The source was published in August on Github. And now, a Screencast should finally explain what PostRails does! Read on