What do you do when a friend wants to send you some special digital xmas present? Set up an ftp server or use your existing ssh infrastructure to create a secure connection between both? I decided to do the latter one because last time I did it was only an emerge scponly which created everything for me.
Mathematical quiz
@Zoby, this time it is my program you should try to analyse. It isn't that hard but I hope you have some fun with it. As a small hint: it is related to a mathematician who participated in an infamous project.
Testing linking behaviour
While fixing linking problems of libg3d on windows I checked the binutils ld man page again after years and noticed that there are some useful parameters to check for linking misbehaviour on linux. In some rare situations it is a design decision of upstream and not really a "bug" but in most cases someone forgot to link against a library and his current system configuration hides the problem from him. So it isn't a good idea to insist on a bug in upstream or "fixing" it without listening to upstream - unless you liked the infamous openssl random number genererator bug in debian related distributions.
Settler 2 TNG under Wine
After porting some free software to an unfree operating system I've chosen to run some unfree software on a free operating system (ok, just wanted to play some kind of vikings godfather). An interesting target was "The Settlers 2: The Next Generation" or in German "Die Siedler 2: Die nächste Generation" v1.11757 because I found some positive comments inside wine's appdb and Ubisoft is selling it at a cheap price at the moment.