Swobodin v Brně

It was an unpleasant surprise to me to find out for the first time that passwords on my favorite instant messaging client, Gaim, were stored in a plain text file, and the only “security” the software offers is the native Unix privilege rights, thus very invulnerable, was hoping things would change with Pidgin, but […]

There are actually electronic dictionaries and translators from almost all the languages to English and vice versa, but have you ever thought about a Danish/Tagalog, Norwegian/Zulu, Japanese/Serbian, Arabic/Swahili, … dictionary?
The Open Source made it possible! Thanks to a standard XML format of dictionaries, All Free Dictionaries Project can make combinations between available 80 languages.
As […]

Looking for more Google ranking, I updated my permalink structure and set it to the following for posts:
http://swobodin.fedora-tn.org/archive/999
The feature is included within wordpress, but you can handle it manually using mod_rewrite.
Note that old URL structure (/?p=999) still works.

This is probably the best SVG gallery! Not about the number of graphics, but the quality.
3D objects made with simplicity and elegance. If you try to make them with a 3D software, there would be too much needless nodes which makes their size very huge; it’s not the case here.
The only problem is the […]

After several tries, I have been thinking that the only way to write a lesser than (<) and greater than (>) charecters in LaTeX was adding to the header
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
In fact, if not specified, < will become ¡ and > will become ¿, not very helpful to write HTML/XML code. However, with including the package […]

Yesterday I received the Ubuntu CD’s I requested one month ago. Well, I won’t talk about technical stuff, just 2 new things:
There’re no longer2 CD’s in one pack. If you want to install, first run the Live CD, and then, click on the icon. I haven’t tested it yet, so I can’t tell whether […]

Vim has released some time ago its 7th version. The first surprise was the compilation: It took only 5 minutes to compile it from the source, I was expecting some hours though!
Vim 7 contains many additional features, the most important are

Spell checking (Finally!) for many languages with highlighting.
More user-friendly completion using a menu to […]

Nvu is a powerful WYSIWYG HTML and XHTML editor. I exclusively use this program when designing web pages for it’s reliable, has many features, supports CSS and generates valid code, let’s not mention it’s free!
However, it has been exactly one year since the last release of Nvu, 1.0 in June 22nd, 2005; no update, […]

Again, OpenSource developers have a sense of humor! I found it out at a Spanish documentation page of Ubuntu. Only requirement: Ubuntu itself. Enjoy!

apt-get moo
 
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(oo)
/——\/
/ | ||
* […]

I fell in love with a Wiki platform, DokuWiki.
Never seen such thing! It doesn’t need any SQL database, security policy is excellent, code is strangely XHTML valid (even when I try to screw it up), everything is controlled through admin interface, it has a cool behavior, and hacking on it is very simple and […]

This “mathematical exhibition” may interest even those who don’t like maths!
Load this script on gnuplot, and it will produce a funny shape.
 
set clip points
unset border
set dummy t,y
unset key
set polar
set samples 800, 800
set xzeroaxis lt 0 lw 1.000
set yzeroaxis lt 0 lw 1.000
set xtics axis nomirror norotate autofreq
set ytics axis nomirror norotate autofreq
set title “Amazing […]

Joe (and many others) writes “This month has seen the internet release of the first 3D ‘Open Movie’, Elephants Dream.” From the site:
The 3D animated short ‘Elephants Dream’ will today be released as a free and public download. This is the final stage of a successfully completed Open Movie project which has been community-financed, […]

I personally hate strategy games, and I never thought that I will pass 6 hours at night playing at a civilization-like game!
Freeciv is a turn-based, multi-player strategy game for the X Window System. The thing that attracted me is the realism; well I don’t mean the graphic, it’s poor, 2 D and small, but I […]

Today seems to be Tom’s day in my blog!
Tom asked me some days ago whether I can contribute to the first Tunisian OpenSource project QCM-Gen 0.1, something I cannot refuse; however, I spent my free time watching Jackass the movie and playing chess. Finally I decided yesterday to work on it seriously (well, […]

I fixed the subdomain issue: All the URL that used to start by http://fedora-tn.org/swobodin will be automatically redirected to http://swobodin.fedora-tn.org, no change for remaining string.
Please update your bookmark if any.
Code for .htaccess
RedirectMatch Permanent ^/swobodin(.*) http://swobodin.fedora-tn.org$1
Yet, I should not create a directory called “swobodin” or I will get a 500 error code.
Next step, learn RewriteRule […]