Windows version of djvudigital

Long time no write.. didn't meant I'm not around. This post is yet another prove that I'm a faithful Windows user :-). Admittedly I have using Windows 8.1 for months now, and damn what a buggy explorer!

You probably heard about djvu format about 5 years ago. But it kinda failed to gain momentum against the venerable PDF. Despite its rather simple (or rather "sufficient") feature, it meant to be less malice format than PDF.

Djvudigital has been around with no cmd batch port... its Ghostscript driver also a bit controversial (for linux zealot). But in this windows world anything is good as long as it apparently works. duh

This batch of djvudigital is converted into exe for convenience and will act just like batch file (aka it *need* cmd) see "BAT to EXE" page for info. It not complete port of bash version but parameters is the same as linux one, note:  it doesn't do sanity check of the Ghostscript executable whether it support djvu or not.

Requirements:
- Ghostscript with djvusep device
- Csepdjvu (part of djvulibre)
- and off course working CMD
- optionally gzip or 7za/7z

Installation:
Put all executables above in the same directory as djvudigital, you may put it in your PATH environment so you can called it anywhere. Type djvudigital --help for manual

Download:
djvudigital.exe 83 Kb

I've been using/abusing online-convert.com for a while for on-the-fly 'downversion' stuff from the internet, but no djvu there.

Morris 0.2 Win32

Been stumbled on this site http://www.ihsan.biz which offer hundreds of free logic games. Most made in VB and somehow have awkward error handling, however the games are very consistent and excellent for learning.

I can't find few traditional game such as morris there or maybe I missed it (so many games). The only one freeware I found is an old free morris (along its variants) game here: http://www.nine-mens-morris.net/downloads.html. AI is good and made with GTK. I want to share version 0.2 here in addition to the official 0.1 installer. This version has one more morris variant called Sunmill otherwise it looks the same as 0.1.

morris.exe (1.21 Mb)

Javascript, GTK and Windows

GJS (Spidermonkey) and Seed (JSCore) are two Javascript binding for GTK (and other Gnome libraries) via GObject Introspection. The former commonly used by gnome shell, while the latter is a bit dated by now.

There are good demos at https://developer.gnome.org/gnome-devel-demos/stable/js.html.en and https://git.gnome.org/browse/seed-examples/

The build also bundled in PyGObject AIO but certainly shouldn't be there. So I might remove it one day and put it elsewhere.

At the moment only GTK bundled (you could make gui, image viewer etc) though it can use others gnome libraries, but I need to think about the packaging first.

Download:
GJS-1.42_Seed-3.8.1.7z

Attack Surface Analyzer for XP

This utility released by Microsoft long time ago when XP still supported but ironically decidedly for Vista or newer only. I thought it kind of regshot (registry and filesystem snapshot) or similar but turn out a security risks snapshot. I patch it to work with XP (only) because when debug the half native half dotnet apps it actually or at least initially designed for a minimum XP SP2. The patch just change the required NT version from 6 to 5 and it works but hey I'm no security expert kay?

Dedicated to XP diehards:
http://d-h.st/Tk6 (32bit only)

Original source:
www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=24487

How to enable GCC i686-w64-mingw32 multilib

I always opt i686-w64-mingw32 multilib when building GCC. That mean 32bit by default and 64bit via -m64. in GCC 4.9 (or since GCC 4.8 SEH introduction) this configuration seems to be broken / unsupported. By common sense if x86_64 multilib is supported then the inverse should be possible too.

Here is the patch:

--- D:/Tarball/gcc49s/libgcc/config.host.bak Thu Mar 27 22:40:31 2014
+++ D:/Tarball/gcc49s/libgcc/config.host Sun Sep 28 14:24:20 2014
@@ -646,8 +646,20 @@
  if test x$enable_sjlj_exceptions = xyes; then
   tmake_eh_file="i386/t-sjlj-eh"
  else
-  tmake_eh_file="i386/t-dw2-eh"
-  md_unwind_header=i386/w32-unwind.h
+  case ${host} in
+    i[34567]86-w64-mingw*)
+      if [ "${enable_multilib}" = yes ]; then
+        tmake_eh_file="i386/t-seh-eh"
+      else
+        tmake_eh_file="i386/t-dw2-eh"
+        md_unwind_header=i386/w32-unwind.h
+      fi
+      ;;
+    i[34567]86-pc-mingw*)
+      tmake_eh_file="i386/t-dw2-eh"
+      md_unwind_header=i386/w32-unwind.h
+      ;;
+  esac
  fi
  # Shared libgcc DLL install dir depends on cross/native build.
  if test x${build} = x${host} ; then

Might be a bit ugly but still make sense and works! Overall that's just a naming/convention mess. With the patch we should have SJLJ in 32bit and SEH exception in 64bit mode by default (a.k.a no exception handling specified at configure).

Retro Pacman Game

First post since very a long time hiatus :)

Looking for a real remade for classic pacman but for Windows? there is plenty but I can say funman which is part of funpack.net for windows http://www.classicdosgames.com/game/Funpack.Net_for_Windows.html is the closest one however while it said to be freeware the installer is the original shareware :confused:.

funman with the "entertainment pack" esque

Alternatively, with a quite improved gameplay is njam https://sourceforge.net/projects/njam/files/ which continued as commercial version here http://www.guacosoft.com/njam/About.php. No windows build for the open source version, so I made one. I made a little change of the default setting so it will started in windowed mode (patch included in download)

njam

As a bonus I'd like to share newer win32 version of lbreakout http:/lgames.sourceforge.net/ which solve the mute of winamp (or possibly any other DirectSound playback) when the game started.

lbreakout2

links:
njam 1.25
lbreakout2 2.6.3

Windows XP eXtended Patches

As expected MS are committed to support NT 5.1/5.2 OSes that are not at EOL period such POSReady 2009 (XP based) and most of Server 2003 lines. And our hero at RyanVM/MSFN has convert (ongoing) Post XP EOL updates so it can be installed into normal XP system.

Get it here

See Harkaz's ongoing Unofficial SP4 project here

Cool!

PyGI AIO 3.12.x for Win32

With the new GObject-Introspection 1.40, gir generation now works with MinGW-W64 CRT and most docstrings issues seems been squashed too. GTK is not on Windows side though, version 3.12.1 looks buggier where an app (in this case gtk3-demo) will lose toplevel window (the one that is native and directed by OS), wish I have screenshot to show (I will). All 3.10  bugs also persist in 3.12, so despite of lots of new features it's really no good at the moment.

GTK 3.12.1 has lots of fixes in the Win32 theme (FYI, it's controlled by compiled-in css files namely gtk-win32*.css) which I tried to backport to 3.8.9 and 3.10.8 with some success, I also made correction on Windows XP specific part. But realized that perfect "theming emulation" is not possible yet with current css feature and event handling.

Overall there are new lots of libraries joined the AIO packages, with over 100 introspected libraries. The 64 bit port is not convincing... In some of my tests GI fail to resolve to existed exported functions of a dll, possibly getting skipped/mangled in the process. At C level, the libraries/apps behave just as good as 32 bit ones, so the problem is pygobject specific here.

Download for Python 32bit at:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pygobjectwin32/files/

PyGObject homepage:
https://wiki.gnome.org/PyGObject

Ternyata errornya Indosat kebablasan

Masalah routing "tersesat" Indosat ternyata belum selesai juga (sudah beberapa minggu). Masalah ini membuat pengguna yang hendak browsing jadi seperti diajak main togel. Soalnya rasio tidak tersesatnya 1:10 percobaan. Tapi buat pengguna yang suka download seperti saya ini bukan masalah besar. Lagipula untuk koneksi 128kbps mana bisa buat youtube/fesbuk mau buka buka google+ aja tidak selesai2 doh.

Tapi sebenarnya tinggal pakai Tor saja masalah hampir tuntas. Ya, hampir, karena mbah google agak paranoid sama proxy yang satu ini  (sering di blok) jadi harus pake bing atau lainnya buat pencarian. Dan tidak harus pakai Tor Browser, kamu bisa pakai privoxy sebagai jembatan antara Tor dengan apapun browser pilihanmu (saya masih pakai Opera 12) tinggal arahkan saja proxy addressnya ke localhost:8118 (ini port default-nya)

Kembali ke topik, lalu apanya yang kebablasan? Saya adalah pelanggan Starone unlimited, tepat sebulan lalu saya coba registrasi. Tapi setelah saya kirim INTERNET BLN ke 7825, balasan yang saya dapati adalah "Maaf ada kendala teknis, Silahkan ulangi beberapa saat lagi" lalu saya coba koneksi untuk sekedar cek email ternyata tersambung. Tapi saat saya cek pulsa ternyata belum terpotong biaya bulanan tapi juga tidak terpotong tarif premium  (yang seharusnya terjadi jika tidak berlangganan) justru saya dapat tambahan 23 yups tepat 23. Saya pikir ya sudahlah yang penting bisa ngenet lagi. :-)

Hari ini adalah hari untuk registrasi untuk 1 bulan ke depan, ternyata saya kembali mendapati hal yang sama. :-D

Bentuk kompensasikah? ha ha

O iya mumpung sedang nulis laman lokal, Saya ucapkan selamat untuk Pak Jokowi atas kemenangan PDIP, semoga jadi Presiden RI! JKW4P!

What a handful Calculator !

I got lot of bitter experience with Windows 8.1 but still quite noob with it. Often I click the wrong shortcut for calculator from the start page where I launch App version instead of desktop version which on the next right list.

Just want to show that Software maker will race to make bloatware that parallel with current hardware level. MS said 8/8.1 has lower RAM requirement than 7 (well for some Windows 7 feature cut off that's already make sense). But probably they're after to compromise something else...

The inherently RAM sucker WindowsApp. After took several seconds to launch an eightened/flattened version of MS Calculator Plus (2005), I decide to look how much RAM it took.

A WindowsApp Calculator took 20MB (more than Virtual Box manager need)
A Vista/7 Calc need 3.5MB
And for the record XP Calc is about 750KB

That's roughly 5x increase for each generation to do the same task: crunching numbers. You could apply this comparison to other WindowsApp too. Also imagine if everything ported to WindowsApp...

Maybe when 32GB RAM  is common for consumer PC the next-gen calc will need 100MB to do "1+1" calculation... complete animated full 3d button with raytraced soft shadow and fully reflective OSD. Wait... at the moment it's backward evolution remember? we're heading to low tech mobile device where you can only view, read, write and play. Wake me up when Ipad can construct the next gen Game.

At the background of the screenshot, you can see the container of an App.. uhh ohh remind me of OSX's App bundle eh? Indeed while you could see numbers.exe there, it won't run by just double click on it (not in desktop mode at least). The container (the main folder) is a hierarchy of executable, settings and resources. This I think is how in the future apps will be standardized for Windows hmm I wonder. I need to have a look more at this stuff considering MS unlikely change their mind to retire desktop app in the future.

Windows 8.1 64bit was run as Guest under VirtualBox 4 under Windows XP 32bit