Fokke en Sukke
Another link for my daily portion of news, comics, et cetera: the daily Fokke en Sukke cartoon (update: from the official Fokke & Sukke Homepage).
Actually, it would be even better to add this cartoon to the other daily comic site. I’ll have to see if that can be arranged…
BTW, the Fokke en Sukke cartoon is (also) located on the Totally Flabbergasted weblog, another one of those sites I check regularly.
Well, ok, to complete the list: also check out Mijnkopthee.nl and l-rs.org.
Scanner not working in Debian
I have a Trust Easy Connect 19200 Plus parallel port scanner, and I’ve been trying to get that to work under Linux. I found this link about the little brother of my scanner. As it says in that document, the latest version of sane (Scanner Access Now Easy) has native support for this scanner, so I downloaded and installed version 1.0.11 of the backends and 1.0.10 of the frontends.
Printer working in Debian
It looks like I’ve finally got my HP Deskjet 959c USB printer working in Debian. After downloading and installing the HPIJS drivers (see hpinkjet.sourceforge.net or www.linuxprinting.org), I should have been able to simply print with lpr or gs…
Astronomy Picture of the Day
I came across this site a few days ago, with the “Astronomy Picture of the Day”.
There are a lot of really nice photos, and an archive starting in June, 1995!
So I immediately added the site to my bookmarks, and it is now part of my daily ritual, just like this selection of comic strips, Tweakers.net and Slashdot.
Back from holiday
If you were wondering why you haven’t heard from me last week…
I was on a skiing trip to Italy!
The weather was perfect, the countryside was magnificent, the pistes were beautiful… In one word: wow!
I had a great time, got a bit of a suntan, and I didn’t even break anything… 
Unfortunately, it’s back to work now!
transcode
I had this great movie (from Ron Fedkiw), which, unfortunately was encoded with the MPEG-4 Video High Speed Compressor (fourcc MPG4).
Because I wanted to change the codec, I tried to install transcode.
GnuPG
Well, I’ve finally entered into the secret world of public key encryption and digital signatures with Gnu Privacy Guard (GnuPG).
My PGP Public Key (id 0xAC64ADE2) is available here.
DVD movies with xine
Got my xine to play encrypted dvd’s on my home pc!
I had the xine and xine-dvdnav packages installed, but it refused to play CSS encrypted VOB-files. So I tried to install libdvdcss2. This library needed libdvdread2. However, I probably downloaded the wrong version, because when I tried to install that, it complained about me having a too old libc6 version.
I didn’t what to update that, so I tried something else… and I found the d4d plugin. Just ./configure; make; make install.
Yeah right…!
Porting from SGI to Linux
OK, I’ve got the RWB VRX library working under Linux!
Eeeh? Say what?
The Responsive Workbench library with the Virtual Reality eXplorer!
We’ve got this Virtual Reality Workbench running on a SGI Onyx2, and one of our PhD students, Michal Koutek, wrote a library, based on SGI’s Performer, for building applications for this machine.
New subdomain
Created a shortcut for this weblog:
Check out weblog.bvrolijk.net!
Much easier to remember!
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