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Shit happens… fireworks campaign

The yearly dutch campaign to prevent fireworks victims among young people has launched today. The campaign has a new site and slogan “Shit Happens”.
A hilarious video is the centerpiece of the web site, but it can be doubted whether this is actually going to be an effective one… it is too funny to be taken [...]

Using the Wiimote as a pointing device

What does a Nintendo wireless controller have to do with Slackware?
Well… you’d be surprised!
On october 4th I am running a presentation about “A history of Slackware development” as part of T-DOSE (fyi: T-DOSE is a free and yearly event held in The Netherlands to promote use and development of Open Source Software). One of the [...]

Calculating PI

The Internet is full of “one-liners” and if you search a bit, you can find many. A one-liner typically means (a chain of) commands that produce useful results quickly.
I came across a nice one-liner just now. The “binary calculator” or bc is a powerful UNIX tool. Calculating the value of PI with an arbitrary number [...]