The final release (at least by me) of the gp2x-gpe, a port of the GPE palmtop environment to the GP2X is out! This release includes pretty much everything except the kitchen sink. AbiWord, Evince, Gaim, Dillo, Gnumeric, XChat, The GIMP, GpsDrive, GCC are included along with all the standard GPE applications.

Almost everything is working pretty smoothly and there has been some speed increases, most notably the new Xorg server patched by Orkie and compiled under OpenEmbedded.

You can download the archive from here

You can find more information on installing and running gp2x-gpe here.

If anyone is interested in taking up this project please get in touch with me. I just don’t have enough time to carry this on by myself with work and other commitments.

Please let me know if you come across any issues and I’ll do my best to help you out.

I’ve created a plugin to display your Jabber presence in the Typo sidebar. This plugin is based on the AIM presence plugin and uses status bot at njs.netlab.cz.

To install simply extract the archive to your sidebar directory and go in the sidebar section of Typo admin and you will be able to drag and drop the Jabber Presence item onto your active items. You will also need to allow jabstatus@njs.netlab.cz to see your status in your jabber client.

You can download the plugin below, please leave a comment if you come across any issues.

jabberpresence.tar.gz - 634 bytes

After the first Ubuntu billboard advertisement was spotted last week near Oracles headquarters, a second has appeared further along Interstate 101.

As of today I’ve started moving my sites over to Dreamhost! I had been running everything on a Sun Blade 100 using Ubuntu for SPARC, hosted on my cable connection but the uplink was crippled to 512 kbit/s. My blog is first to move, and also moves to a new domain, darxr.net. All old links should redirect fine. I’ve also upgraded my blog to Typo 4 . Everything went pretty smoothly except for a few MySQL problems which were solved by using a fresh database schema and importing the old articles from the command line.

I’ll be moving over the urlmarkr site and also migrating the SVN repository to Dreamhost in the next few days. I have already moved the site to Drupal and again all seems fine. urlmarkr also moves to it’s own domain, urlmarkr.org.

The main reason I’ve choose Dreamhost is their Ruby on Rails support seems pretty good and the control panel is NOT CPanel. I can’t stand using CPanel, its UI is terrible. I am a command line user most of the time, but when I have to use a web based interface, CPanel is one that I’d just rather avoid.

If you interested in signing up for Dreamhost, you can signup for either the L1 (20GB disk, 1TB bw), L2 (40GB disk, 1.2TB bw) or L3 (60GB disk, 1.6TB bw) packages for only $9.90 for the first month with all setup fee’s waived and a free domain name! Simply enter the code DARXR in the “Promo Code” box on the signup page to take advantage of the discount.

I have just finished testing what will be my final gp2x-gpe release. Everything is working pretty smoothly and there has been some speed increases, most notably using the X server patched by Orkie and compiled under OpenEmbedded.

I hope to get this release out in the next few days.