http://www.sandklef.com/hesa ... my comments on copyright, patents, trademarks, software .... and life Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:14:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Today is (hopefully) my last day of work before summer vacation. In Gothenburg (Sweden) right now we have about 25 degress celsius, no clouds and almost no wind. In short, perfect... a little cold perhaps. Took a picture at our summer house looking at the sea two days ago: sad thing ... http://www.sandklef.com/hesa/index.php/2008/07/04/hesavacation_mode1/ This is a compilation of the GNU software releases as announced during June 2008 on the mailing list: http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu GnuTLS 2.4.1 / 2008-06-30 GnuTLS is a modern C library that implement the standard network security protocol Transport Layer Security (TLS), for use by network applications. http://www.gnutls.org/ GNU Wget 1.11.4 / 2008-06-30 GNU Wget is a free software package for ... http://www.sandklef.com/hesa/index.php/2008/07/02/new-gnu-stuff-june-2008/ Magical night. Seeing the band live was amazing. I can't find words for Will's music. Will Oldham belongs among these: Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Jeff Tweedy. http://www.sandklef.com/hesa/index.php/2008/06/28/bonnie-billy-will-oldham-in-kungalv-sweden/ I was shocked to read that the great Swedish Jazz musician/composer Esbjörn Svensson was found dead yesterday (Saturday 14 June 2008). I am not a big Jazz fan, but EST's  and especially Esbjörn way of hitting the piano keys is truly magic. One of Sweden's greatest musicians is not with ... http://www.sandklef.com/hesa/index.php/2008/06/15/esjbjorn-svensson-dead/ I wotk at two different places, meaning two different computers. Add to that the private laptop (mainly for FSFE FSCONS and GNU Xnee work) plus the family desktop. The sum is 4 computer which I use actively more or less on a day to day basis. The locally installed tools ... http://www.sandklef.com/hesa/index.php/2008/06/15/using-ommunication-tool-in-different-places/ This is a compilation of the GNU software releases as announced during May 2008 on the mailing list: http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu GNU Wget 1.11.3 / 2008-05-29 GNU Wget is a free software package for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP, the most widely-used Internet protocols. http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/ Bison test version 2.3b / 2008-05-28 Bison is a general-purpose parser generator that converts ... http://www.sandklef.com/hesa/index.php/2008/06/04/new-gnu-stuff-may-2008/ This is a compilation of the GNU software releases as announced during April 2008 on the mailing list: http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu GNU Interactive Tools 4.9.3 / 2008-04-01 gnuit (GNU Interactive Tools) is a set of interactive text-mode tools, closely integrated with the shell. It contains an extensible file system browser, an ascii/hex file viewer, a process viewer/killer and some ... http://www.sandklef.com/hesa/index.php/2008/05/06/new-gnu-stuff-april-2008/ I can't say I am tired of listening to Les Claypool (Primus, Sausage ...). But 3 hours in a row made want something else. But how to prevent the same story all over again, bit with another artist. Random mode. Hmmm.... too easy solution. In amarok I used the search field and ... http://www.sandklef.com/hesa/index.php/2008/04/17/new-playlist-generator/ This is a compilation of the GNU software releases as announced during March 2008 on the mailing list: http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu GNU Scientific Library 1.11 / 2008-03-31 GSL provides a large collection of well-tested routines for numerical computing in C. http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/ GNU FreeFont / 2008-03-19 This project aims to provide a set of free outline (PostScript Type0, TrueType, OpenType...) ... http://www.sandklef.com/hesa/index.php/2008/04/08/new-gnu-stuff-march-2008/ This is a compilation of the GNU software releases as announced during February 2008 on the mailing list: http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu GNU Source-highlight 2.9 / 2008-02-26 This program, given a source file, produces a document with syntax highlighting. http://www.gnu.org/software/src-highlite mcron 1.0.4 / 2008-02-25 GNU mcron is a replacement for Vixie cron written in guile and taking guile job specifications ... http://www.sandklef.com/hesa/index.php/2008/03/06/new-gnu-stuff-february-2008/