{"id":1329,"date":"2006-04-03T00:20:49","date_gmt":"2006-04-02T22:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/2006\/04\/hacking-away\/"},"modified":"2006-04-03T00:20:49","modified_gmt":"2006-04-02T22:20:49","slug":"hacking-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/2006\/04\/hacking-away\/","title":{"rendered":"hacking away."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"KNetSwitch.\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\n Luite<\/a> visited me last weekend at our (fairly) new place.
\nWe were planning to do some hacking, and that was quite some fun. Luite has been working on a photo
\nediting tool which makes use of the GPU to do most operations on the image. He was already able to
\nshow editing levels, emboss and brightness \/ contrast in real-time. His program is using the OpenGL
\nshader language to do those operations in the graphics card. With his Radeon FireGL T2-128 (Radeon
\n9600 Pro), 30 FPS was easily possible. Nice, maybe we’ll see this in krita at some point in the
\nfuture, it is currently in a proof-of-concept stage.\n <\/p>\n

\n I myself had been testing a couple of network setup programs during the last weeks, none of
\nthem worked to my satisfaction and I ended up various times with having a bunch of different
\nconfiguration files in \/etc\/network\/interfaces.* and symlinking the ones that I’d use to
\n\/etc\/network\/interfaces. That part has been automated now and put into a systray application that
\nmakes use of the “Debian infrastructure”. It works well until now. I’ve also added the option to
\nscan for open wireless access points and connect to those. My neighbours were friendly enough to
\nprovide me with a testing environment (although they’re probably not aware of that). :-)
\n I might polish KNetSwitch<\/em> a bit more and release it to the public, but I don’t know
\nif it’s really worth it and if I find the time to make it releasable. If someone is interested,
\nemail me to get the code. It’s written in Python, using PyKDE for the GUI stuff. The program that
\ndoes the actual switching is implemented as a console program that’s called via sudo or kdesu
\n(configurable). Anyway, it seems to work well and does the job at least for me. A possible extension
\nfor this program would be a guidance<\/a> module that allows you
\nto edit the config files by hand. Judging by the manpage of
\n\/etc\/network\/interfaces<\/a>, you’ll get a lot of useful functionality ‘for free’.\n <\/p>\n

\n\t\tLast friday, I submitted a paper for FrOSCon<\/a>. It’s
\nabout the work in the Marketing Working Group. Danimo was kind enough to invite me and Adriaan to
\nhis place. Guess it’ll be fun over there. Ow, if the paper gets accepted, that is…\n\t<\/p>\n

\n\tUpdate:<\/strong><\/em> I’ve received quite some requests to put knetswitch online, so
\nhere<\/a> it is.\n\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Luite visited me last weekend at our (fairly) new place. We were planning to do some hacking, and that was quite some fun. Luite has been working on a photo editing tool which makes use of the GPU to do most operations on the image. He was already able to show editing levels, emboss and… Continue reading hacking away.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kde"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}