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Modeling a Forged Part

Witold Jaworski

There are dozens forged or cast parts, like the one below, in an aircraft. Forming their shapes with polygon meshes and Bevel modifiers is difficult, because of their complex, rounded edges. Usually it takes many hours, in the worst cases – it is impossible. (For example: in 2018 I could not model...

I had to fix the Slackware 15.0 git repository

alienbob

Recently, and unexpectedly, I noticed a lot of errors in the output of the script which populates the git repository for Slackware. Specifically, when it updated the “15.0” branch which tracks the updates in Slackware 15.0. I did an evening of troubleshooting and fixing. Somehow, the root user had...