www.linusakesson.net

My name is Linus Åkesson, though some of you may know me as lft. I live in Lund, Sweden.

This combined homepage, blog and file archive is bilingual. If you don't understand Swedish, you may wish to trim the site down a bit by un-checking the corresponding box near the top of the page.

Latest pages:

The TTY demystified

The TTY subsystem is central to the design of Linux, and UNIX in general. Unfortunately, its importance is often overlooked, and it is difficult to find good introductory articles about it. I believe that a basic understanding of TTYs in Linux is essential for the developer and the advanced user. Read more.

Posted Friday 25-Jul-2008 17:46, 0 comments.

Autosokoban

I created an algorithm to automatically generate sokoban problems of increasing difficulty. Check it out! The first levels are trivial, but somewhere around level 10, perhaps 15, you will find that the puzzles are becoming quite challenging. Read more.

Posted Tuesday 24-Jun-2008 16:03, 2 comments.

Where's the man's hat?

I found this intriguing little story while looking through some old boxes from the attic. Apparently, I wrote this at the age of five. Read more.

Posted Saturday 14-Jun-2008 10:37, 0 comments.

Reverberations

It struck me that, at least in theory, organ pipes should generate quite primitive sound waves. If so, how come a church organ doesn't sound like a chip tune, which is also built up from simple waveforms? Well, actually it will, if you remove the church. And if you connect a Commodore 64 home computer to a loudspeaker in a large hall, it will sound like an organ. Read more.

Posted Saturday 10-May-2008 07:27, 5 comments.