Ferry Boender
Programmer, DevOpper, Open Source enthusiast.

I’ve released a new version of my Minecraft Player/World Editor MCPlayerEdit v0.10. This release is an update for Minecraft Beta v1.3 and features the following modifications and additions: You can now load worlds by name. Added items: Double Stone Slab, Double Sandstone Slab, Double Wooden Slab, Double Cobblestone Slab, Stone Slab, Sandstone Slab, Wooden Slab, […]
(The lastest version of this article is always available in stand-alone HTML format and in PDF format. The original AsciiDoc source is also available. Please link to the HTML version, not this Blog post!) Update 19 Februari 2017: Alexandre Grojsgold has emailed me to say that these instructions are still valid as of 2017 for OpenSuse 11.2 and […]
I’ve just released the latest version of MCPlayerEdit: v0.8. This release fixes a bug in the ‘give’ command. If the user supplied in invalid ID or item name, MCPlayerEdit would crash. (Patch by Stephen Rollyson). The ‘give’ command has also been extended with additional option menus when the user chooses an item by id, but […]
I’ve just released the latest version of MCPlayerEdit: v0.7. This release brings MCPlayerEdit up to date with Minecraft Beta v1.2 and adds the new block types (note blocks, wool, birch, redwood, sandstone, cake) and items (Dyes, bone, sugar, cake, charcoal) presented in Minecraft Beta v1.2. Some blocks and items already present have been renamed to […]
I released version 0.6 of my MCPlayerEdit. MCPlayerEdit is a MineCraft player/inventory editor for GNU/Linux, MacOSX and Windows. This release adds the ability to create your own kits using the kitsave command, improved tab-completing for Windows, a warpto command which allows the player to warp to a specific set of coordinates (patch by Foone) and […]
I’ve been trying to get MacOS X working on VirtualBox for a while now, and it never worked due to some ACPI problems. The latest versions of VirtualBox have added MacOS X Server as a guest possibility, and it also seems to have fixed some problems with running the normal Mac OS X. I got […]
I’ve just released version 0.5 of MCPlayerEdit, a Minecraft player data and inventory editor. Features: Modifying the inventory. Adding kits (collections of items) to the inventory. Showing and moving the player and spawn point coordinates. Setting the in-game time of day. Bookmark locations and warp back to them (works inter-dimensional). Track your inventory in case […]
Boxee is a pretty awesome media player for Linux. Now, I don’t have a remote to control it, but I do have a Logitech DiNovo Wireless keyboard with a detachable numeric pad. Modifying Boxee to support controlling it using the numeric pad is rather easy: Browse to the map that contains the Boxee installation. For […]
For a while now I’ve been trying to record my Ubuntu desktop with various levels of success. I’ve been using recordmydesktop to do my recording. Recordmydesktop is a simple commandline tool that outputs an .ogv (Ogg Video) file which is a container format that uses the Theora video codec and the Vorbis audio codec. Most […]
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