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QOverclock 0.1

Alec Hussey — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 04:32:25 +0000

I actually wrote this little application quite a few weeks ago, I was just contemplating whether it was worth posting or not. I had just finished building my new PC and was starting to do a lot of overclocking and tweaking. Frustrated by the fact that there weren’t any Linux or open source alternatives to overclocking calculators, I quickly wrote one up using Qt 4. It simply calculates the resulting clock speed of your CPU given the FSB and the multiplier. Who knows, maybe somebody will find it useful. I was thinking about adding some tray icon functionality to monitor system temps. as well. Although, I am going to sit on that idea for a little while.

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ProxyBot 0.7 Stable Released

Alec Hussey — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:31:27 +0000

So there were some things that were in need of tweaking in the last version, so I have now released version 0.7. Due to popular demand I have implemented support for MySQL in addition to Postgres. I tried getting SQLite to work but it isn’t thread safe and would require a new instance in every thread which makes things messy and does not work with the current database abstraction layer. So until I can pass SQLite instances across threads, that feature will not work. I put some more details in the readme which is included with the source distribution. I am always open to feedback so feel free.

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ProxyBot 0.6 Stable Released

Alec Hussey — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 03:30:09 +0000

Although I was finished with this about a month ago, I just haven’t gotten around to it until now. So here it is. Its the first stable release of ProxyBot, my port scanning IRC bot, version 0.6. As far as usage goes, its pretty self explanatory, simply download the tarball or zip archive and change directory into the proxybot folder and run the main.py file from the command line. For a set of command line options simply use –help or no arguments at all. As usual its Open Source and under the GNU GPL v3 and a copy of the license is included with the distribution. I currently don’t plan on addinany more features so if you have any ideas, please feel free to contact me and let me know.

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Micro GTK+ Media Player

Alec Hussey — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 01:00:03 +0000

Well I havn’t posted in little a while, but I do have some stuff cuing up for the future. I was bored and wanted to work on a GTK program while listening to one of my favorite linux podcasts (The Linux Link Tech Show) and decided to make a small multithreaded media player in C/GTK+ with an SDL backend for the audio playback and threading support. Apparently SDL_mixer has some issue with pausing that hasnt been sorted yet so the pause button probably wont work properly, as it didn’t for me either.

You can download a tar-bzip2 package here. Obviously I use linux, so there is a linux-x86 binary in there along with the source code, as well as a Makefile. I don’t use windows but I hear that you can compile GTK+ apps under windows, wouldn’t know because I havn’t really tried it. But to run under linux you just need the gtk+-2.0, libsdl-1.2, and libsdl-mixer libraries and if you want to compile it from source, you obviously need the development headers as well.