osgviewer sample call: OSG_FILE_PATH=/usr/share/osgearth osgviewer --window 50 50 900 700 /usr/share/osgearth/maps/srtm.earth Press ‘h’ for help. See also OSG Wiki osgearth_simple sample call: OSG_FILE_PATH=/usr/share/osgearth osgearth_simple --window 50 50 900 700 /usr/share/osgearth/maps/geopole.earth Press ‘1’-‘5’ for predefined viewpoints. Drag mouse with left+right click for tilt. Read on

Building heartbeat on Solaris is always a pain. This time it took 4 hours for heartbeat 2.1.3 on x86 Solaris 10. Needed packages (from Sunfreeware): autoconf-2.65-sol10-x86-local automake-1.11-sol10-x86-local bison-2.4.1-sol10-x86-local coreutils-8.1-sol10-x86-local db-4.2.52.NC-sol10-intel-local flex-2.5.35-sol10-x86-local gcc-3.3.2-sol10-intel-local glib-2.20.4-sol10-x86-local gmp-4.2.1-sol10-x86-local libgcc-3.4.6-sol10-x86-local libiconv-1.11-sol10-x86-local libintl-3.4.0-sol10-x86-local libnet-1.1.2.1-sol10-x86-local libsigsegv-2.6-sol10-x86-local libtool-2.2.6b-sol10-x86-local m4-1.4.12-sol10-x86-local make-3.81-sol10-x86-local pkgconfig-0.23-sol10-x86-local Create file /usr/local/bin/gnome-config: #!/bin/sh echo "-I/usr/local/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/local/lib/glib-2.0/include -L/usr/local/lib -lglib-2.0" chmod +x /usr/local/bin/gnome-config Fix gcc headers: cd /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/i386-pc-solaris2.10/3.3.2/install-tools/ ./mkheaders Fix hardcoded paths: ln -s /bin/perl /usr/local/bin/perl ln -s /usr/local/bin/true /usr/local/bin/python Patch lib/clplumbing/cl_reboot. Read on

OssimPlanet is an open source project for accurate, high performance, 3D Geo-spatial visualization. Our package for Ubuntu is now available at UbuntuGis! Read on

PostRails is a PostgreSQL database browser and application server. The project was started in the Breakpoint coding session in the beginning of July 2009. The source was published in August on Github. And now, a Screencast should finally explain what PostRails does! Read on

There’s an extension for Firefox called Twinklefox. However it doesn’t run under FF 3.5. I’ve bumped the version in install.rdf, but twinkle won’t get called correctly none the less. I browsed FF’s settings and … made a little wrapper script to call twinkle: $ cat /usr/local/bin/twinkle_callto #!/bin/sh # # firefox will call twinkle_callto like this: # # twinkle_callto callto:+41812528006 number=`echo "$1" | sed 's/callto://'` exec /usr/bin/twinkle --call "$number" There you go. Read on