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Alien Blaster project is an action-loaded 2D arcade shooter game for up to two players
11 marzo 2009 - Fonte: http://ubuntuland.nireblog.com
In the style of space invaders, you have to blast the martians out of the sky and avoid being hit yourself. To spice things up a little, you can move vertically and will have to face some boss characters. Might keep you occupied during those moments of boredom.
Alien Blaster project is an action-loaded 2D arcade shooter game for up to two players.
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The Gnome Development Framework
8 marzo 2009 - Fonte: http://ubuntuland.nireblog.com
GTK+ / Gnome Application Development
Introduction
This chapter gives you an overview of the technologies described in this book.
What is Gnome?
Gnome is a free (or "open source") software development project started in 1997 by Miguel de Icaza of the Mexican Autonomous National University and a small team of programmers from around the world. Inspired by the success of the similar K
Desktop Environment (KDE) project, the burgeoning popularity of the GNU/Linux
operating system, and and the power of the GTK+ graphical toolkit, Gnome grew
quickly — within a year, hundreds of programmers were involved and many thou-
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Schism, ImpulseTracker clone aiming at providing the same look&feel
6 marzo 2009 - Fonte: http://ubuntuland.nireblog.com
This is an editor for "tracked" music, i.e. audio samples of instruments pitch shifted according to the note data.
The Impulse Tracker is one of the most popular "tracker" programs at present, and Schism Tracker attempts to follow their UI layout wherever possible in order to make it easy for existing users to switch.
Schism Tracker
SayTime Script is a very simple Nautilus script to make your computer say the date and the time.
6 marzo 2009 - Fonte: http://ubuntuland.nireblog.com
SayTime Script is a very simple Nautilus script to make your computer say the date and the time.
Requirements:
· GNOME
· Nautilus
· festival
· festvox-don
INSTALLATION:
Just put the "saytime" file in your /bin directory. Check execution privileges if uncheck (in "Properites->Permissions");
USAGE:
Now the execution of the command "saytime" makes your computer to say date and time.
You can run it in terminal or create a desktop...
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Saydate is a A Linux shell program that talks the date and system uptime
6 marzo 2009 - Fonte: http://ubuntuland.nireblog.com
Description:
- A Linux shell program that talks the date and system uptime.
- saydate was adapted from saytime.sh (shell version of saytime, by david@eng.sun)
Author: Anthony Tekatch
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The GtkEv widget. Events are reported for the white subwindow.
27 febbraio 2009 - Fonte: http://ubuntuland.nireblog.com
GtkEv uses two GdkWindows; the larger one, GtkEv’s widget->window, has a gray background and is used to render text describing each event. The smaller one is a child of the primary window, and is the window the widget reports events for.
Here are the class and instance structs for GtkEv:
typedef struct _GtkEv GtkEv;
typedef struct _GtkEvClass GtkEvClass;
Writing a GtkWidget
27 febbraio 2009 - Fonte: http://ubuntuland.nireblog.com
This chapter describes how to write a new GtkWidget. A widget is any GtkObject that derives from GtkWidget
Widgets are easy to create; you only need to cut-and-paste the usual GtkObject boilerplate (instance and class initializers, a get_type() function, and so on), and then implement your widget’s functionality. Writing new widgets is an important appliation development technique.
After a brief overview, this chapter jumps straight to the implementation of a very simple widget called GtkEv. Then it takes a step back, describing widget implementation more systematically. It ends with more examples, taken...
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AES-encryption tool with loop-AES support
27 febbraio 2009 - Fonte: http://ubuntuland.nireblog.com
aespipe is an encryption tool that reads from standard input and writes to standard output. It uses the AES (Rijndael) cipher.
It can be used as an encryption filter, to create and restore encrypted tar/cpio backup archives and to read/write and convert loop-AES compatible encrypted images.
aespipe can be used for non-destructive in-place encryption of existing disk partitions for use with the loop-AES encrypted loopback kernel module.
Download Source Package aespipe:
AdvanceCOMP is a collection of recompression utilities for your .ZIP archives, .PNG snapshots, .MNG video clips and .GZ files.
27 febbraio 2009 - Fonte: http://ubuntuland.nireblog.com
AdvanceCOMP is a collection of recompression utilities for your .ZIP archives, .PNG snapshots, .MNG video clips and .GZ files.
It's mainly intended for recompressing your rom, snapshot and clip collection of emulated games.
The main features are :
* Recompress ZIP, GZ, PNG and MNG files using the Deflate 7-Zip implementation.
* Recompress MNG files using Delta and Move optimization.
Now go to Download.
If you have problems you can Get Support.
AdvanceCOMP has...
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