Author Archives: Marco Martin

again a new song

This time i’ve decided to return oldschool and tried to write a chiptune in the good old xm format, written with the nice skale tracker that remembers so much the beloved fast trackerII.
So here it is: Broken memories!

a new song

Concave flow!
Why concave?
Why flow?
bah! i don’t know 🙂

writing music on linux

There is a new open source sequencer for linux: Lmms. It’s quite similar to fruitiloops, that’s quite cool; my best wishes to the project:-)
Anyway, there is the result of arout half an hour of playing with it 🙂

Glaze, away

Some days ago i released on this site and on kde-look glaze, a not-so-little icon theme, i hope to get it a little more complete before i will start writing my thesys in (i hope) a near future.
I hope to publish a new version of glaze, with the complete filesystems section and everything in the toolbars of konqueror and kate.
I also hope to make a new version of the good old crystalcursors with a full replacement of the cursors used in the gimp 2.2
After that, i can’t promise anything, probably i will disappear for a loong time 🙂

runit for sackware round 2

Updated the runit slackware package.
Fixed a little problem that prevented newer versions of sshd to run.
And most important, now it’s compiled with dietlibc as suggested on runit homepage.
Now the package from 473k has becomed 96k, wow.
Kudos to runit and dietlibc authors, they are simply artists 🙂

site update

I finally added support for comments and a simple rss feed, so now this site is a true blog: that makes me nearly emotioned 🙂

runit for sackware

Just uploaded a runit package for slackware (should work with few adjustments) if you wanna some strong emotions, try it 🙂

fighting against crappy init systems

I hate both sysvinit and bsd style init, the why it’s obvious 🙂

after seeking for some time for a non-crappy init system some days ago i read on Roberto Alsina’s blog about runit, based on daemontools.

I didn’t know about it, but i suddenly felt in love on it, it has everything i wanted from an init system: parallel sevice startup, service supervision and explicit dependencies between services.

Now i’m trying to make a ready-to-run(tm) package for slackware, i’m pretty at a good point.

Stay tuned 🙂

CrystalCursors

published new version, this release fixes only the build system, changes includes:
-in left handed themes the symmetric cursors aren’t flipped anymore
-now it’s finally possible to install the cursors system-wide:
all you have to do is to edit the Makefile and change the first line
export PREFIX=$(HOME)/.icons/ with a properdirectory, usually
export PREFIX=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/icons is a good choice,
that should also make simpler to build rpms and other packages

tiny site update

Made a printer stylesheet and modified a little bit the screen stylesheets in order to appear a little bit less crappy on inernet explorer.
But dude, explorer sucks, trow away that sh*t 😀