Author Archives: tobbez

Ebuild for yubikey pam auth

(If you don’t know what a yubikey is, have a look here) So I wrote up ebuilds for yubico-pam and its dependency yubico-c-client. You can get them here. Just extract the tarball into your portage overlay and emerge pam_yubico. If … Continue reading

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Compiling SDL_gfx (2.0.17) on Visual Studio 2008 (VS9)

IMPORTANT: Turns out I was wrong about why SDL_gfx doesn’t compile – thanks to sweetlilmre for pointing it out. I strongly suggest using his suggestions for steps 2 and 8, whereas step 4 merely is a matter of preference. You … Continue reading

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Flash cycler

Since I had a some time on my hands I decided to make a web page that cycles through a collection of flash movies and shows each one for a specified amount of time. It should work in most modern … Continue reading

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Super smash bros: Brawl (USA) on PAL Wii

I finally got SSBB working, and here’s how. But let’s start with what does NOT work. First, my setup: PAL Wii with latest firmware (Bought on the release date) WiiKey (Firmware 1.9s) Try 1 (No go): Enabling update blocker on … Continue reading

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Ruby’s GNU readline module

One thing I really don’t like is libraries that lacks documentation. Which, incidentally, is exactly what ruby’s readline module does. Happily, however, I found this post which explains at least the basic usage – thank you, Adam!

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ryara.net v3

I’ve yet again remade my website (second time this year), and I think it looks better than the older two. New for this version is a new PHP backend for the portfolio part, which I’m quite happy with. Eventually I’ll … Continue reading

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SvsG source released

Yep, I’ve decided to release the source of the game SvsG that I made together with a classmate quite a long time ago. It’s released under the MIT license, and you can find it here. I haven’t cleaned up the … Continue reading

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Now playing for irssi using Last.fm

You sometimes want announce what music you’re playing on IRC, but when using irssi on a remote server this becomes something of a problem. Therefore I wrote a script for irssi that track info for the currently playing track from … Continue reading

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Flashing taskbar with PuTTY + irssi + screen

As quite many people do, I use to IRC using screen + irssi on my server, which I connect to using PuTTY. A little while ago I went out to find a way to make PuTTY’s taskbar flash when I … Continue reading

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Rhythmbox 0.11.0 with new style Last.fm support for Gentoo

This is something I’ve wanted for quite some time: the new style Last.fm plugin takes Last.fm integration to Rhythmbox. Download here. You can install it by following these steps: 1. Add PORTDIR_OVERLAY=”/usr/local/portage/” to your make.conf 2. Run ‘mkdir -p /usr/local/portage’ … Continue reading

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