Thomas Capricelli archive
Author: Thomas Capricelli

September 16, 2008

About mercurial and permissions

by orzel
Categories: Admin, Gentoo
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Distributed source control is really great, and among them, the tool I love the most is, by far, mercurial. I use it for all my free software projects, my own non-software projects (config files, mathematical articles and such) and also, dare I say it, for my CLOSE SOURCE projects. Yes, I also do this kind […]

September 13, 2008

Konqueror web shortcut for gentoo packages

by orzel
Categories: Gentoo, KDE
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You’re going to think that I’m some kind of web shortcut maniac, but I really think I’m not. I’m using http://packages.larrythecow.org a lot, and only today did I think about creating a konqueror web shortcut to get there faster. I’ve called it ‘gt’ (for gentoo, yes, i’m that lazy), and the magic url thinguy is […]

July 20, 2008

Youtube web shortcut

by orzel
Categories: Gentoo, KDE
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You all know the web shortcuts for konqueror, don’t you ? (like gg: or wp: when you want to use google or wikipedia in alt-f2 or konqueror). Well, I find this really useful, but theres none for youtube (in kde 3 at least, I haven’t checked kde4 yet). This is really easy to do. Go […]

July 13, 2008

Linux, a second-class citizen in the PHP world

by orzel
Categories: Admin, Gentoo
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PHP has the ability to send mails. Great. To do so, it can either connect to an external smtp server, or use a local MTA. Even greater! But only on windows. As astounding as it sounds, the feature of using a smtp server is only available on windows : on linux, you need to install […]

June 27, 2008

Static link with cmake under windows (Qt and others)

by orzel
Categories: KDE
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One of the great things about Qt is that you can compile the code under esoteric OSs (mmh?) like Windows or MacOS. Although I’ve almost never used windows, I did the packaging of yzis. I used the Nullsoft Installer, which is ok. I had several issues with static linking, and thought maybe some of you […]

June 26, 2008

Release of Yzis-1.0-alpha1

by orzel
Categories: KDE, Software
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Ok, here it is, things have finally settled and we are happy to bring you the first alpha release for Yzis. The foundations are stabilizing, and we are now focusing on fixing bugs and porting to different architectures, OSs, and interfaces. What you have so far : nyzis (curses frontend) working under linux. qyzis (Qt […]

June 19, 2008

Release of cvxprocessing-1.0-beta1 (+tomography)

by orzel
Categories: KDE, Math, Software
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Comments: 14 Comments

I’m releasing part of the code developed during my PhD. Those are tools useful in the field of convex processing, and more precisely to solve a problem called convex feasbility problem. This is based on Qt4, and released mostly under the GPL (with an added restriction : you must cite my work if you use […]

June 15, 2008

Toward release 1.0-alpha1 of Yzis

by orzel
Categories: KDE, Software
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As some of you might know, I had to finish my Ph.D. and it took me a lot more time than previously planned. I’m happy to tell you that it is now finished. I’m officially a doctor in the field of applied mathematics, and I have more time to dedicate to free software. One of […]

June 14, 2008

Entering the blogosphere….

by orzel
Categories: Gentoo, KDE, Linux kernel
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I intend to use this blog to give insights about my free software development stuff, which is mainly related to Qt/KDE, gentoo, and the linux kernel.