Archive for January, 2008

Geek pr0n again

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

Take one 3U server from SuperMicro, fitted with an Adaptec 31605 SATA RAID controller and 16 one-terabyte disks. Create a RAID 0+1 array for data storage, with 14 of these 16 disks. You get:
#available storage
[root@sam119 ~]# df -h /data
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb1 6.3T 941M 6.0T 1% /data
#write test
[root@sam119 ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/data/toto.txt [...]

SDL applications and Maemo’s Task Navigator

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

When porting an SDL game or application to Maemo, if you wonder why the app doesn’t show up in the Task Navigator (at the bottom left-hand corner of the screen), you need to do two things. Example with Biloba:
Match the SDL window’s WM_CLASS and the .desktop StartupWMClass, the easiest being:

biloba.desktop:

Exec=/usr/bin/biloba.sh
StartupWMClass=biloba

/usr/bin/biloba.sh:

#!/bin/sh
export SDL_VIDEO_X11_WMCLASS=biloba
/usr/bin/biloba
Then, the window will probably [...]

Biloba ported to Nokia’s Internet Tablets

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

Biloba is a little board game that I wrote a while ago for Guillaume Demougeot, its inventor. It’s free software, thanks to Guillaume’s willingness, and as such I’m glad to work on it from time to time…
I just finished the porting of that game to Nokia’s Internet Tablets (770, n800, n810). Get it here while [...]

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