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Lagging as usual (almost 2 revisions behind), the proprietary NVIDIA display driver is broken with the current Linux kernel. If you want to get it running, you can use this patched driver:

Tarball: nvidia-2.6.26-rc1.tar.bz2
(this is just the kernel module, you must install the 169.12 gl libraries along)

To compile, just run make module-install. For the curious, you can take a look at the diff.

I really hope we’ll get a shiny free and open source NVIDIA driver soon instead of this ugly blob.

Here comes the new SlackE17 for Linux Slackware 12.1!

A lot of changes since the last release:

• a lot of new modules
• a lot of new themes (including 2 matching gtk2 themes)
• an efl network manager (exalt)
• a systray module, at last
• and all the up-to-date E17 code from CVS

Usual place for downloading
Release notes and ChangeLog

Please prefer the tar.bz2 which is more flexible and has a lot of docs.

Happy slacking!

Oil prices reached $100 a barrel 15 minutes ago, for the first time ever on NYMEX.

Here is a chart showing the world crude oil price in US dollars for the last 20 years. Data are from the US Energy Information Administration. Today, oil price is around $98.75.

Here comes the time of a new release of SlackE17. Big work for this release and patches send back upstream to get most of the EFL applications compile and run on Slackware 12.0. Epdf had to be removed because of compatibility issue with the Slackware Poppler package. Entrance seems unstable this time and you should be careful using it.

New applications made it to the release: efreet (for freedesktop menu), e_dbus, expedite (tests), evolve (etk->edje lib), elitaire (cards game, coming back), engycad (CAD), edje_editor, etc.

Full package list
Download

Be ready, the new Slackware 12.0 is almost out. Great time!

Voici l’intégrale de la conférence de Pierre Léna au Centre Culturel Français de Séoul, sur les exoplanètes. Vous excuserez l’amateurisme de la vidéo qui est de qualité moyenne.

Télécharger la vidéo au format DivX (697Mo)

Merci à Pierre Léna pour nous avoir autorisé à filmer son intervention et merci au Service de Coopération et d’Action Culturelle pour avoir organisé l’évènement.

Lors de sa conférence sur les exoplanètes au Centre Culturel Français de Séoul (15 mai 2007), Pierre Léna répond à une question du public.

It’s a long time I have this video around. It took me 2 days of work (acquisition and processing). At last, I’m making it widely available. That’s mostly for astronomers :-)

Each picture of this movie is a composite of 30s videos (250 pictures), taken every 5min, during two hours, between 00:00 and 02:00 (2001-12-11). Acquisition with an ETX90EC and a Vesta Pro 680K webcam. Image processing with IRIS.

Here comes some patches for the new stable Linux kernel (2.6.19.2). Some are coming from other sites, some are just rediff against the new kernel code.

• Bootsplash patch
• GRsecurity patch
• SquashFS patch
• Tulip driver specs patch