Arrival of Overlord. What started out as “a few tweaks” has ended up becoming something of a gut and redevelop. I’m not saying there was anything wrong with the code, it just didn’t lend itself to easily doing what I want. Now that I’ve spent quite a bit of time with it I can understand how it happened. Barb can feel free to correct me if I’m wrong, but it looks like Diamond was originally … CopperSpice Experiments – Pt. 7Read more
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CopperSpice Experiments – Pt. 6
Sorry I haven’t written in a while. Life has been busy and I’ve been hacking away at Diamond in my “spare” time. I guess I need to catch this post series up. I used GitKraken to clone the repository into ~/Projects/diamond. Then I created ~/Projects/diamond_build and ~/Projects/diamond_debug. Diamond had an additional dependency of hunspell. After that it was time to build. Change to the build directory and type the following: Yeah! We are ready to … CopperSpice Experiments – Pt. 6Read more
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How to Make Ubuntu 20.04 Work with Buffalo NAS
We’ve all been there. You install a new Ubuntu release and sh*t doesn’t work. It’s really frustrating when it is sh*t that has worked for years. Well, here is how you fix it. Buffalo (and I suspect some other brands) are horribly behind when it comes to network standards and security. More importantly they never seem to push updates out for these things. I guess that is why they are cheap. What screwed you in … How to Make Ubuntu 20.04 Work with Buffalo NASRead more
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CopperSpice Experiments – Pt. 5
Sometimes trying to avoid creating a Debian package is more work than actually creating the package. Before I got deep into coding modifications of Diamond I wanted to get a GUI GDB front end. Yes, I can use Emacs GDB interface and have, but I quasi-suck at the command line. Yes, I would get better over time, but I had used Gede before and it works rather nice. Besides, I’m currently helping on the family … CopperSpice Experiments – Pt. 5Read more
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CopperSpice Experiments – Pt. 4
Keep in mind I have a minimal Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on this system and will be building PostgreSQL support into CopperSpice. The Building for Unix instructions assume a full installation and even then aren’t complete. By using a minimal install I can help even non-Ubuntu users because I will find everything that got missed. One of the first things I want to do is try converting my XpnsQt project from Qt to CopperSpice. This and … CopperSpice Experiments – Pt. 4Read more