Rebuilt Cairo, Fontconfig and Firefox for nicer subpixel hinting/smoothing with fonts. Really worth the effort :3
Love it how sky2 and forcedeth…
Love it how sky2 and forcedeth both fail me… sky2 keeps oopsing and forcedeth won’t let me change the MTU. Time for a new Intel NIC. >_>;
TCP Defense Mode keeps hitting…
TCP Defense Mode keeps hitting me in snv_132, gotta wait for 133 to upgrade… constant lockups of my NFS exports are somewhat bad…
Another way to solve problems …
Another way to solve problems with shared printers not being shared: Pulling them into a VM and sharing them through Windows. Ugly but works
Wowzers, @Wuala sent a CooKey …
Wowzers, @Wuala sent a CooKey //bit.ly/arpTnG – really slick device and even fits my overcrowded keychain. Thanks a lot, people :3
Can’t put it in words…
After months of using Archlinux on my system I just want to say three words: Thank you, Debian!
I can’t put it in words but using Debian is just such a gratifying experience; the vast amount of packages and the great tools make this my absolute favorite GNU/Linux distribution. What makes Debian so attractive is the fact that a lot of non-free software (like Adobe Air, NoMachine’s NX etc.) has packages for it.
And yeah, I’m a fanboy.
CoreAVC 2.0 is out! Can’t wait…
CoreAVC 2.0 is out! Can’t wait to try it out (still waiting for upgrade mail…).See //bit.ly/7wzoKd for changelog…
Fixing Mplayer’s wobbly legs on Arch
Courtesy of this forum post I had to rebuild Mplayer to prevent crashes when jumping through files. As I am quite devoted to vdpau I didn’t test whether this is a general issue or not…
Fixing it is rather easy:
CFLAGS="-O2 -fomit-frame-pointer" ./configure ...
FLV Embed Modification
I love Yaosan Yeo’s FLV Embed WordPress plugin. In fact, while here on TnH I use a variety of plugins, on my new site it’s exclusively FLV Embed.
Now, the plugin ships with an old version of JWPlayer that doesn’t support subtitles. This is bad because that’s just the feature I needed. So, I updated the player version shipped with the plugin and also added a few more tricks to the otherwise great plugin:
- You can now specify a default size in the options. If you don’t give a size in the flv tag, it’ll automatically use the ones specified as default.
- There’s a few more parameter combinations, most notably you can now add subtitles to the parameter list (filename, sub, poster, width, height).
What does this mean? You now have the following possible combinations:
- (filename) Plays just the filename with the default size, no subs or poster
- (filename, subs) Plays the filename with the specified subtitles with the default size
- (filename, subs, poster) Same as above, just with the additional poster
- (filename, subs, width, height) Same as above but without poster and with custom sizes
- (filename, subs, poster, width, height) Same as above but with poster.
Yeah, I don’t really need the poster. If you’re interested you can grab the file here. Be advised that you need to download and unpack the player.swf and yt.swf from the new JWplayer to make this work. Also, you need the original plugin.
Great Firefox theme for Window…
Great Firefox theme for Windows 7: //digs.by/ceB
Installing Windows 7 Ultimate….
Installing Windows 7 Ultimate… first thing to do: Installing updates…
What a joke, how can a man who…
What a joke, how can a man who tolerates and doesn’t close down Guantanamo Bay prison immediatly receive the Nobel price for peace?
Running OpenSolaris snv_124 – …
Running OpenSolaris snv_124 – no apparent bugs, as of yet, sir!
Testing new twitter clients ag…
Testing new twitter clients again…
Woot!!
You know, by now I’m a little reluctant to upgrade my OpenSolaris installation. b116 didn’t boot, b117 crashed all the time… really not a good omen, so I was stuck with b111 which has it’s own share of problems. But 122 seems to work rock-solid and for the 2 weeks I have it up and running from the dev repositories it didn’t give me any tears, crashes or drama of any sort.
All bugs that plagued me before have been fixed: The CIFS server is running fine, multiple VirtualBox machines do not bring down the system anymore, the NICs stay up and there’s no more boot issue. I’ll probably wait a few more weeks before upgrading my pools, though. You know, I trust you, SUN… but I have learned from past mistakes 🙂 .
On a exactly as bright note: Haiku has it’s first Alpha out in the wild. While the system apparently doesn’t like to be booted from a USB thumbdrive + GRUB2 right out of the ISO, it works great when actually burning the ISO to CD-ROM. The USB stack works great, networking is a joy; the Alpha recognized nearly all devices of my Vostro 1500 laptop, only the touchpad didn’t want to work (USB mouse solved that), the webcam was identified but when trying to connect it through Cortex the output module went a little haywire. Sound, graphics adapter (+ resolution), NIC – all in working order.
This is just great, awesome work! I’m still waiting for the day when BeOS makes it’s comeback onto my desktop 🙂 .