This morning I decided to read the Darcs manual. This seems like a very lightweight and powerfull approach to concurrent versioning systems, which in this case should be changes system since that's what Darcs is all about: changes, or patches, to a set of files and all the algebra that evolves this. It is also very nice to look at a P2P approach to such an important part of a programmer's life.

It's really nice to see a mind at work, for example take a look at how Clearlook is evolving:

The progress bar is getting really pretty, can't wait to test this. And you know what, since it's open source, I can whenever I want to!

Another open source project, let's call it The Crazy Hack of the Month, is Multi Theft Auto which allows you to play GTA: 3 and GTA San Andreas in multiplayer! Sounds like real fun! This is one of the biggest games I know but one feature that it was seriously lacking was multiplayer capabilities. Check out this interview at OSDir.com.

Yesterday my witew sister was bugging me about a game she wanted to play but since it was in CUE/BIN she couldn't mount it. Actually she could, if she knew how to install CDEmu, but since she's a real n00b I didn't even proposed it to her. So I introduced her BinChunker, which is a C program for converting these images into ISO-9660 format. Showing her how to use it I couldn't even do it in the first time, since that program is dumb and doesn't find the bin image in the cue sheet. "Bah" I told her, I'll create make you that program if you want, and so I did. Of course she wanted it fast and therefore I did a first version in text-mode. But the second version was using PyGtk. The cool thing about it was me having the guts to use threads, which is not that daunting, but can be a pain in the bottom when used in Python. cue2iso.py depends on the latest rat.

So I've added a few things on rat, which basically resume to what I talked about in a previous post, check it out!

Oh and my ISP is ridicoulously slow, I mean, sometimes modem-like and the best download rates I get are about 20kb/s. Tomorrow I'm going to phone them to understand what's going on, but since it's happening to alot of clients I don't think my problem is going to be solved easely... *sigh* After alot of problems with my [ horrible] previous ISP I start wondering when I'll have a decent internet connection... </rant>