For an unsupported utility, I seem to update this tool fairly often. MAMEsnarf, a shell script to automate downloads of MAME ROM images THAT YOU LEGALLY OWN has been updated to add support for the 0.67 release of MAME. Note that the program will report version 0.1.1 – all that’s changed are in the...
So far, I’ve been mostly happy with Gentoo’s portage system; it’s somewhat familiar, feeling somewhat like a cross between various BSD’s port system, and a bit of a Debian hybrid. It’s easy, it works, it’s amazingly trivial to make things work: In sort, I like it.
The bad news is many of these too...
As usual, I’ve been mulling over BitTorrent; it’s pretty simple in nature, yet still intriguing. I like it’s building upon prior foundations, it’s simple hashing and sockets… well, ok, so it mimmics the web. I can get over that. ;)
Of course, this is a double-edged sword. I happened to play off my...
Being without my Mac has been painful – I’m stuck on my PC, and I can’t just read Safari’s XML formatted bookmarks file.
So, I did a few lame tricks to get a list of urls:
%grep ‘http://’ Bookmarks.plist | sed -e :a -e ‘s/<[^>]*>/ /g’ -e ‘s/[\t]*//’ | uniq | \ awk ‘{ print “$1”>/A>
“}’ > bookm...
Ion is a smallish X window manager. that takes a slightly different approach to window management; it divides your screen into frames which do not overlap in an effort to keep the cascading clutter to a minimum. Cygwin is a rather complete unix abstraction layer for Windows, and is wrapped with m...
libOSXCompat is quite simply the headers and functions of common BSDish subroutines ported to be used as functional shims for MacOS X. Why does this exist? To enable one to port code from other platforms with (hopefully) minimal effort. In essence, this is a collection of shims that I’ve become rat...