News

22 December 2009

• [All] Updated website.
• [Utilities] Removed simpleinit-msb and all files relating to it.
• [Science] Added link to prpvis, a visualization for the probabilistic roadmap planner.
• [Science] There is a new release of Domino on Acid that fixes a bug that prevented advancing beyond level 187.
• [Articles] Removed article "Why SysVinit setups suck". SysVinit is dead.
• [Utilities] Updated tar patch to 1.19

10 January 2004

• [Utilities] Released simpleinit-msb-1.2, which fixes a critical bug that prevents older versions from spawning gettys (effectively preventing logging in at the console.

05 January 2003

• [Science] Finally found a way to make both IE and Mozilla display the Domino On Acid applet.

04 January 2003

• [Science] Released version 1.2 of Domino On Acid. Changes: A Walkthrough has been added (see Help menu) that points out the tips and tricks necessary to play the game. If you've tried a previous version and given up because you found it too difficult, read the walkthrough and try again.
• [Articles] Removed the incorrect statement that natural deduction has no dead ends from the article "Visualization of Natural Deduction as a Game of Dominoes" (HTML version only, PDF remains unchanged)

29 December 2002

• [Utilities] Added link to a GUI for png2ico.

08 December 2002

• [Utilities] Released new version of png2ico that has color reduction and support for 2, 16 and 256 color icons.
• [Articles] In Favicon Howto: added recommendation to create 16-color favicons instead of 256-color ones to reduce download times.

28 September 2002

• [Science][Articles] Added the background article on the natural deduction Dominoes game.
• [News] Added section prefixes to News entries.

03 September 2002

• [Utilities] Released new version of png2ico that produces more compatible icons.
• Regenerated favicons with new png2ico.

26 August 2002

• [Science] Released 1.1 version of Domino On Acid. Changes: Alt key can be used to simulate right button (useful with one-button mice); added missing paragraph explaining the restrictions that apply when using blue blocks.
• Changed contact address to matthias (a) winterdrache.de.
• [Utilities] Added png2ico.
• [Articles] Added "How to create and install a favicon.ico".

02 August 2002

• [Science] Released 1.0 final version of Domino On Acid.
• Changed index.html of Linux Page to a simple redirect to the Freeware site

21 July 2002

• Launched freeware site with new structure. Please report broken links if you find any. Thank you.
• [Utilities] Fixed note on newboot page that incorrectly told people that they have to download simpleinit-1.1 if they already have it.
• Merged Linux site with freeware site
• [Utilities] Added png2ico dummy links. Hopefully the program will follow soon.
• [Science] Added Domino On Acid.

01 June 2002

• Added favicon. Wow, is this page cool now ;-)

26 May 2002

• [Utilities] Released simpleinit-msb-1.1 which fixes a dangerous security hole.

09 May 2002

• Added navbar.
• The whole site is now generated by msbtxt2html.awk.
• Check out the validate link at the very bottom of the pages.

17 October 2001

• [Utilities] Added trivial bugfix for new-boot-0.2.

15 October 2001

• [Utilities] Added bugfix for new-boot-0.2 that fixes boot problems with LILO and mountfs problems with devfs.

10 October 2001

• [Utilities] Added bugfix for new-boot-0.2 that fixes failure of scripts that have the same name as the daemon they start.

26 September 2001

• [Utilities] Added simpleinit-msb-1.0, the successor to new-boot-0.1. It's now a standalone package instead of a patch and it comes with all the sysvinit tools.
• [Utilities] Added discussion of SysVinit drawbacks.

20 August 2001

• [Utilities] Added GNU tar 1.13 bzip2 patch.

15 August 2001

• [Utilities] Added ParseTrace.

09 May 2001

• Birth of this site.
• [Utilities] Added New boot concept.

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