Entries from October 2005

SouthPark

Comments   1   Date Arrow  October 18, 2005 at 2:51pm   User  by Harry Kalogirou

Found this very entertaining site today : South Park Studio. This is a flash application that allows you make South Park characters! The image is me, South Park style!

You can waste many happy hours trying to create your friends!

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Zagorohoria

Comments   6   Date Arrow  October 12, 2005 at 2:01pm   User  by Harry Kalogirou

Living in Ioannina has many privileges. One of them is that the city is actually build in nature. The city is surrounded by forests and it also has a beautiful lake. A lot of magical locations are also within reach. One of these places is Zagorohoria. Zagorohoria is a network of 46 villages in the north east of […]

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The plague of PBuffer is lifted

Comments   1   Date Arrow  October 6, 2005 at 10:13am   User  by Harry Kalogirou

I finally got the time to remove the PBuffer support from Sylphis! Since I simply hate BPuffer, I’ve been planning this for some time now, but I never got the courage to go through it since I don’t have much time lately.

The PBuffer was replaced by the new shiny extension EXT_framebuffer_object. The extension seems to work perfectly with the 5.9 […]

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GCC vs MSVC the Rematch

Comments   1   Date Arrow  October 3, 2005 at 11:41pm   User  by Harry Kalogirou

If you remember from the GCC vs MSVC post, I had a problem with templates and GCC. I looked further in to the problem and I found this on some GCC release notes :

You must now use the typename and template keywords to disambiguate dependent names, as required by the C++ standard.

So the problem […]

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ELKS : Baby Linux refusing to grow up

Comments   0   Date Arrow  October 1, 2005 at 1:58pm   User  by Harry Kalogirou

Recently there was a spike in the ELKS mailing list. For those that don’t know what ELKS is, let me tell you that is is basically Linux-86; the port of Linux for the 8086 and 80286 processors. An email with subject “HELP WANTED” caused a thread of responses. The mail came from Miguel Bolanos with […]

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