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I've finally put Kaffeeklatsch in a Subversion repository, and a public one at that! Simply check out from https://layla.chrishowie.com/svn/kaffeeklatsch and build... well the build process isn't that simple, but oh well. You will need Tao, the Lua 5.0 library and development headers ...

I was digging through some of my old, unfinished projects this week and found one that I'd barely started. The goal was to write a scriptable audio visualization tool in C, approaching this art form differently than most viz tools today.

As a former light tech for a band ...

I got Kaffeeklatsch back out of the toy box the other day and started integrating the Affe compiler into it. The goal is to remove Lua entirely, as it's an unmanaged dependency and has been giving some odd errors as of late, crashing mono after a few seconds.

The ...

Google Video was giving me grief, so I posted it on YouTube this time:

Over two nights of hacking I implemented a movement filter that's compatible with the AVS Dynamic Movement effect.

Update 2013-06-21: Removed dead link to video.

The author of QEMU has finally released his previously closed KQEMU accelerator kernel module under the GPL! FOSS people should be very pleased by this; it's the first fully open virtualization system that does not require a CPU providing VT extensions.

The laptop I purchased on eBay showed up a few days ago (thanks to a friend who was willing to drive it up from my house). It's already got Debian Etch running smoothly, and of course XP in case I need it -- you know how schools are with Windows ...

I have finished removing Lua from Kaffeeklatsch and have enhanced Affe with the ability to bind field, property, and method calls at runtime. I noticed this gap when rewriting some of the key binding scripts; where I could just set a field before, my compiler threw an exception since it ...

I've been pondering a project for about a year now, and I may be ready to finally start coding the beast. The basic idea is you run a process in a jail where it's completely isolated from the system, except where you let it interact.

The interface is ...

I've been using VirtualBox for some months now. It's pretty slick and doesn't get in my way too much. Just for the heck of it I've been experimenting with a few other similar systems: OpenVZ, vserver, KVM, and Xen. OpenVZ and KVM are the only two ...