Things I do...

One of my main interests are computers, and Free Software in particular. I have several others, but this site is probably mostly going to be about that interest.

Debian GNU/Linux

The universal operating system

I'm a contributor to the Debian GNU/Linux operating system.

My motivation...

My vision...

I'm currently in the NM-queue, which means I'm on my way to becoming an official DD. My progress is available at nm.debian.org.

AHMissile

Dream cheeky usb missile launcher for Linux

I've written a GTK+ program to control a DreamCheeky USB Missile Launcher. It's written in C and uses libusb to communicate with the USB bus, so hopefully it should be portable to other unix-clones.

There are two popular models, this program is for the green cannon-like launcher with yellow arrows. There are other programs to control the "Mark and Spencer" model which is grey with while and red arrows.

This program is based on my own reverse engineering of the Windows control program shipped with the device. See the README file shipped with ahmissile for more information about this.

The current status of this program is "works well enough". Several people have reported successfully using the program, but I know that there are several thing that can be improved still. Unfortunately the program works good enough, that my motivation to spend the time on improving it even more isn't that high. If you want to hack on it, feel free to contact me for some insight!

You can download ahmissile at http://fatal.se/fulhack/ahmissile/.

Frisor-Sharp

Hair Dressers deserves free software too!

Frisor-Sharp was my first real attempt at writing a program in C# using Mono and GTK# with a MySQL backend. The motivation was that my mother still used an old MS-Dos program to manage her customer,product,booking database and whatnot. Her old crappy computer died, and since parts of the program had died of during the years and another resque/revival attempt didn't feel like an option I started writing this.

This program wasn't ever really finished and isn't developed any more. The basic functionality exists, but the small finishing part (thus 80% of the work, right? ;-P) still remains and the code could use some cleanups and updating to the latest MD standard. It has not been released, but the code is available on request if anyone wishes to continue this project.

The program was developed using MonoDevelop IDE and the source was the first project I handled with the git version control system. Progress can thus be viewed using my gitweb interface.