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x86info is a neat little program written mostly by Dave Jones (I think) that pulls some basic info about the 80×86 cpu on the machine, using stuff like the cpuid opcode. I thought this was neat on my linux partition, … Continue reading →

This was a one day project that took one and a half days 🙂 A simple implementation of pong using OpenGL, SDL, SDL_mixer, and SDL_image. It works fine on Linux and FreeBSD, and I had a version running on Windows. … Continue reading →

This time the X-Async error is fixed for real 🙂 It was an issue with the timer going off between images. Thanks to Ted Mielczarek for helping out on this one. Also included in this version is a very very … Continue reading →

Whew, Things have been busy 🙂 I’m now a graduate of Southwest Missouri State University, graduated cum laude with a bachelors in science, Computer Science being my major and holding minors in Mathematics and Physics. Been pretty crazy around here … Continue reading →

Changes in this release include the addition of the ‘loud’ parameter (-l enables printing of the file name as it’s displayed, otherwise the filename is not printed), as well as numerous bugfixes. Some of the more important bugfixes include the … Continue reading →

After some interest in this project, I decided to post it on sourceforge, to take advantage of the CVS repository and mailing list. This is convenient, as I’ve been considering using their services and want to experiment with how much … Continue reading →

This is the first public release of GWCI, a small GNOME applet that has user configurable buttons on it. When a button is clicked, a small temporary text box pops up where the user types a query (or escape to … Continue reading →

Iview 1.0 was a cut down version of what I was working on (which will be iview 2.0 when it works right), and when I cut it down, I seem to have forgot a small little line that caused a … Continue reading →

Iview is a quick image viewer I hacked up using SDL_Image to read a variety of image formats and displaying them with a few different options. I chose SDL because it’s easy to use, portable, fun, and can automagically choose … Continue reading →

I feel a need to ramble, I set up phpComic on my box downstairs so I can get my fix quicker. I was probly spending around 30-60 minutes a day reading web comics 🙂 I’m thinking I should set up … Continue reading →