The best-laid plans are in my other pants
Okay, I lied. KQEMU is not the only open-source virtualization solution. VirtualBox is another, and is partially GPLed. Features that are attractive to corporate consumers (iSCSI and USB support, among others) are available only in their proprietary product, but the rest (including the required kernel module) are released on their public Subversion server under the…
The author of QEMU has finally released his previously closed KQEMU accelerator kernel module under the GPL! FOSS people should be very pleased by this; it’s the first fully open virtualization system that does not require a CPU providing VT extensions.
The laptop I purchased on eBay showed up a few days ago (thanks to a friend who was willing to drive it up from my house). It’s already got Debian Etch running smoothly, and of course XP in case I need it — you know how schools are with Windows. Fortunately I have not needed…
Over Christmas break I took a test my mom wanted me to — one based on finding out what types of things you’re good at, not your personality. I came out the strongest in “Ideation” which is defined by the book as the creation of new ideas. Looking back on my life I can see…
I’ve finally put Kaffeeklatsch in a Subversion repository, and a public one at that! Simply check out from https://layla.chrishowie.com/svn/kaffeeklatsch and build… well the build process isn’t that simple, but oh well. You will need Tao, the Lua 5.0 library and development headers (check your distro’s packages), and Mono. Having MonoDevelop around will make the build…
I’ve been pondering a project for about a year now, and I may be ready to finally start coding the beast. The basic idea is you run a process in a jail where it’s completely isolated from the system, except where you let it interact. The interface is of course through syscalls like open() and…
I’ve been making some small progress on Kaffeeklatsch, though most of it is behind the scenes stuff. For example, IEffect now extends IDisposable, and the frontend will dispose effects when removing them. This could be used, for example, in plugins that create OpenGL display lists and want to properly clean up after themselves when destroyed….
You’ve all seen the ads. “Hi, I’m a Mac.” “And I’m a PC.” The old-fashioned PC winds up crashing or freezing, leaving the hip, cool Mac standing there looking pleased with himself. Terminology aside, (it’s “Windows PC” — there are lots of PC OSes) Apple is ignoring what is fast becoming a major competitor: Linux….
It’s coming together slowly. Recently Kaffeeklatsch has been enhanced with Lua, which is used for key bindings and in several effects. For example, there is a “Custom” effect that simply runs a Lua script each frame. The script gets full access to OpenGL by default, but can access any loaded .NET classes. (This could be…
And so does Kaffeeklatsch. Now, anyway. First, I added preset saving and loading a few days ago but never wrote about it. Since then I gave the design of this project some serious thought, and moved some classes around into strictly defined layers: Kaffeeklatsch Visualization Platform. The generic components of the platform: the effect interface,…