Omar Abo-Namous » software http://omar.toomuchcookies.net Sun, 08 Jan 2012 22:36:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Random BlenderRender #1 http://omar.toomuchcookies.net/node/2011/05/random-blenderrender-1/ http://omar.toomuchcookies.net/node/2011/05/random-blenderrender-1/#comments Sat, 30 Apr 2011 23:10:10 +0000 admin http://omar.toomuchcookies.net/?p=473 http://omar.toomuchcookies.net/node/2011/05/random-blenderrender-1/feed/ 0 3DMagix: Just Blender renamed http://omar.toomuchcookies.net/node/2009/06/3dmagix-just-blender-renamed/ http://omar.toomuchcookies.net/node/2009/06/3dmagix-just-blender-renamed/#comments Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:09:14 +0000 admin http://omar.toomuchcookies.net/?p=342 Apparently some silly guy is trying to make fast money by selling the open source and free 3D-software package Blender. He's using the name 3DMagix, which is a pretty dumb name. The site doesn't look to reassuring to me, but there are lots of people (some i am ashamed to call 'close relatives') who would gladly fall for this kind of 'best deal' offers. So, be warned: If you want to check out some nice and really(!) free 3d modelling, animation, texturing and video editing software (and yet some), head over to Blender.org and download it for free without having to register or give out your credit card number.. Thanks to Blendernation for the heads-up.

Continue reading →]]> http://omar.toomuchcookies.net/node/2009/06/3dmagix-just-blender-renamed/feed/ 3 Working bridge on startup for Virtualbox http://omar.toomuchcookies.net/node/2009/05/working-bridge-on-startup-for-virtualbox/ http://omar.toomuchcookies.net/node/2009/05/working-bridge-on-startup-for-virtualbox/#comments Sun, 24 May 2009 20:18:32 +0000 admin http://omar.toomuchcookies.net/?p=337 I'm experimenting with a server running under virtualbox on my home computer. Here is the script running as /etc/rc.local that sets my bridge up and starts the virtualbox with the name 'seville':

[bash] ifconfig eth0 down ifconfig eth1 down tunctl -u namous -t tap0 brctl addbr br0 brctl addif br0 eth1 brctl addif br0 tap0 ifconfig tap0 0.0.0.0 promisc ifconfig eth1 0.0.0.0 promisc dhclient br0 vboxheadless -s seville & exit 0 [/bash] Continue reading →]]> http://omar.toomuchcookies.net/node/2009/05/working-bridge-on-startup-for-virtualbox/feed/ 0 Major crisis: some databases not readable http://omar.toomuchcookies.net/node/2008/12/major-crisis-some-databases-not-readable/ http://omar.toomuchcookies.net/node/2008/12/major-crisis-some-databases-not-readable/#comments Wed, 24 Dec 2008 02:20:32 +0000 admin http://omar.toomuchcookies.net/?p=312 Two days ago i was just about to reinstall the whole server (web, db, mail and fileserver). The reason was, that mysql was apparently not able to open most databases. The files were still there (under /var/lib/mysql), but only two databases which belonged to two gregarius-installations were accessible. I had just installed the aggregator at solidworks.toomuchcookies.net and had instructed the installer to create the database needed. I gave him root-access and also told him to access that database after that as root.

Continue reading →]]> http://omar.toomuchcookies.net/node/2008/12/major-crisis-some-databases-not-readable/feed/ 0 Postfix: sender_bcc_maps http://omar.toomuchcookies.net/node/2008/12/postfix-sender_bcc_maps/ http://omar.toomuchcookies.net/node/2008/12/postfix-sender_bcc_maps/#comments Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:14:48 +0000 admin http://omar.toomuchcookies.net/?p=309 For an email account for a group project, we needed the ability to see what was being sent via a specific email account. The reason was, that we're going to handle the account data very liberally and therefor to avoid misuse of the account, we needed an automatic forward of all emails that were sent from this account to some screening account.

Continue reading →]]> http://omar.toomuchcookies.net/node/2008/12/postfix-sender_bcc_maps/feed/ 0 Pingbacks and Trackbacks work again in WordPress http://omar.toomuchcookies.net/node/2008/12/pingbacks-and-trackbacks-work-again-in-wordpress/ http://omar.toomuchcookies.net/node/2008/12/pingbacks-and-trackbacks-work-again-in-wordpress/#comments Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:44:21 +0000 admin http://omar.toomuchcookies.net/?p=306 For quite some time, i had a problem getting pingbacks and trackbacks working. Receiving them wasn't a problem, but i couldn't send any. It seems, i'm not alone and no where were any answers to be found..

Continue reading →]]> http://omar.toomuchcookies.net/node/2008/12/pingbacks-and-trackbacks-work-again-in-wordpress/feed/ 0 My first rig animation test http://omar.toomuchcookies.net/node/2008/12/my-first-rig-animation-test/ http://omar.toomuchcookies.net/node/2008/12/my-first-rig-animation-test/#comments Mon, 15 Dec 2008 22:35:33 +0000 admin http://omar.toomuchcookies.net/?p=298 Yesterday i started with the rig animation for the blender animation challenge. Here is the result so far..


Mancandy with Ball from too much cookies on Vimeo.

I'm planning on having him stretch a little then try and grab the ball. Let's see what happens then..

Continue reading →]]> http://omar.toomuchcookies.net/node/2008/12/my-first-rig-animation-test/feed/ 0 WordPress 2.7 RC1 finished http://omar.toomuchcookies.net/node/2008/12/wordpress-27-rc1-finished/ http://omar.toomuchcookies.net/node/2008/12/wordpress-27-rc1-finished/#comments Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:36:51 +0000 admin http://omar.toomuchcookies.net/?p=279 Ryan just announced, that RC1 can be downloaded. I've been on svn the whole while long and i must say, this is a very smooth release with few glitches (save the "save to draft"-bug at the very beginning..). Thanks guys!

Continue reading →]]> http://omar.toomuchcookies.net/node/2008/12/wordpress-27-rc1-finished/feed/ 0 Lighty Development is not (!) dead http://omar.toomuchcookies.net/node/2008/11/lighty-development-is-not-dead/ http://omar.toomuchcookies.net/node/2008/11/lighty-development-is-not-dead/#comments Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:44:39 +0000 admin http://omar.toomuchcookies.net/?p=275 I thought it was. The forum was long abandoned. Just now i was looking for a problem i'm having with high-load combined with enabled xcache and found out they've changed from trac to redmine (have to try!). Here is the new development site.

On this happy note, i now think i could be changing soon to lighttpd 1.5.0svn. Let's see. Maybe even try an svn-version of xcache?? Any thoughts about such a transition? I know there are quite some sites already running 1.5.0, but as long as i didn't see progress on the site of lighttpd i was too afraid, that i wouldn't get any support if i changed to the unstable version.

Continue reading →]]> http://omar.toomuchcookies.net/node/2008/11/lighty-development-is-not-dead/feed/ 0 WordPress 2.7 beta soon http://omar.toomuchcookies.net/node/2008/10/wordpress-27-beta-soon/ http://omar.toomuchcookies.net/node/2008/10/wordpress-27-beta-soon/#comments Sat, 18 Oct 2008 17:04:12 +0000 admin http://omar.toomuchcookies.net/?p=239 Continue reading →]]> http://omar.toomuchcookies.net/node/2008/10/wordpress-27-beta-soon/feed/ 0