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Monday, July 26th, 2010Looks like churning out releases is a thing you do between two beers. It kind of is. I implemented the action and event APIs. It is now possible for plugins to register an action (a predefined function) to an event. The library will then take care of handling it, based on the registered event and [...]
oculusd 0.14
Thursday, July 22nd, 2010Nothing on TV, so another release. Basically a small change, I implemented the save/load of alarms. So, when oculusd is restarted, the alarms are persistent. The ID numbers of the alarms may change, so plugins should not really rely on them. Get oculusd 0.14 here.
oculusd 0.13
Tuesday, July 20th, 2010Yay! It is here. After a month or two of quietness, another release of oculus, the easy server monitor. I implemented the alarm features in a alarm plugin. The following commands are added: ALLS (ALarm LiSt), ALST (ALarm SeT) and ALRM (ALarm ReMove). The alarm framework is not done yet, because alarms do not survive [...]
Oculusd 0.13
Friday, July 16th, 2010Work has started on oculusd 0.13. I set up the alarm framework and starting thinking on how to implement events on monitors. Alarms will be implemented in a plugin, so you can choose to use them or not. Because alarms need to stay ‘alive’ between reboots and application restarts (of course, oculusd will never crash), [...]
Programming the RS-485 bus for RS-232 programmers
Friday, July 2nd, 2010I am working on a project that uses the RS-485 bus to poll some info from slaves. Because I have quite some experience with RS-232 I’d reckon this a no-brainer. However, my system didn’t work. On the RS-232 bus, with a 232/485 converter, no problems. But, with the slaves connected directly to the device‘s 485 [...]
Another round of crapware.
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010Don’t get me wrong. I like automatic updates. They keep my systems running, updated and relatively bug-free. I think automatic updates are a Good Thing. But there are also (as always) Bad Implementations. Nokia’s phone updater is one. This is a short transcript of what happened, a play in 5 scenes. Scene 1: the start [...]
Thunderbird 3
Wednesday, May 5th, 2010Yes, it has a few nice features. Grouping all your accounts together in one meta-account is a good idea. The synchronising the IMAP folders by default is not. Isn’t the whole point of IMAP that you don’t have your mail on your computer. If I’m offline, I have no mail. Period. I cannot send anything [...]
oculusd 0.12
Monday, May 3rd, 2010A new month, a new version. Not much interesting, but some internal changes. But, as Linux Torvalds said: “release early and release often”. I removed the fork() call and implemented threads to handle each connection. This yields immediately to the “CONN” command (which will show you who is connected to the server), but will eventually [...]
Online Marketplace Using LinkedIn
Tuesday, April 27th, 2010This morning I had the idea to create an online marketplace using LinkedIn. A lot of people use that network and are just ‘on’ it. No actions, no reactions. So, I was thinking, what if people could tell eachother two things: what they want (demand) and they have (supply). All businesses are there to do [...]
oculusd
Sunday, April 18th, 2010Another evening of little hacking. The goal is to get rid of the fork() and implement POSIX threads. Not easy, because I of course want some extra stuff (a list of threads, and some control of them). For now, I am playing with a doubly linked list. The thing crashes a lot still now, so [...]
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