Category Archives: Open source

Arduino: automatic compile time stamp

Posted on December 3, 2010 by Risto H. Kurppa

I wanted to see the revision or in this case date and time of compiling every time I start my Arduino program. This is the solution I figured out with the help of #arduino (@IRCnet) IRC channel. void setup() { … Continue reading →

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Meego 1.1.80.7.20101119.1 on N900

Posted on November 22, 2010 by Risto H. Kurppa

As I earlier wrote, I had hard time figuring out how to try Meego on N900. Now I know how it works and decided to try the latest build, 1.1.80.7.20101119.1 Here’s a quick list of things that have changed and … Continue reading →

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First experiences with Meego

Posted on November 20, 2010 by Risto H. Kurppa

I finally got so interested in Meego that I had to do something about it. First I installed the Meego Software Developer Kit. It was easy, copying commands and things worked fine. Got QTcreator up and running, I was even … Continue reading →

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Diaspora experiences, part III

Posted on September 17, 2010 by Risto H. Kurppa

Things move on with Diaspora, the open-source-future-replacement-of-facebook. Diaspora is now the most ‘trending repository’ in GitHub Cross-seed friending starts to work here and there, someone figured out that the primary port to connect is 443 and 80 is used as … Continue reading →

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Diaspora experiences, part II

Posted on September 17, 2010 by Risto H. Kurppa

After playing around with Diaspora for a day or two, some new quick thoughts. The Start In April/May, four students announced that they will build an open-source social network. People were able to donate money for that. Very quickly they got … Continue reading →

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