While I was away, I totally forgot about a patch they recently applied.

I also reworked my git ls-files parseopt patch today, based on Dscho's comments.

So today I wanted to try out how to do a mass-upload of pictures to Picasa.

This message links the script itself, and after installing the gdata.py package, it works almost fine. It assumes that your google account ends with @gmail.com, which is really false in my case, but the code itself is quite simple, so you can work around this bug.

It would be nice if it would be possible to upload the picture subtitles as well this way (from a notes.txt or so), but for now I just hand-added them, it's not that difficult.

$ date +%s 1234567890

and ideally it would be even a 13 and Friday combo, but here in Hungary in GMT+2 it was actually Saturday. ;-)

OTOH, I just discovered that the W3C HTML validator has a nice soap interface, so it won't be necessary to parse it's HTML output, yay! (The CSS validator has a console version, parsing that is not a problem.)

So here is the patch that allows you to do it.

Basically it is useful when the blog has no comment functionality, as in this case you can just specify an address in config.py, like:

OVERRIDE_FROM = {
                'http://landley.net/rss.xml': '''"Rob Landley's blog thing." <rob@landley.net>'''
                }

Without the patch you can just overwrite the name, not the address as well.

So first I had to patch our grub, then adding ext4 support to the installer was more or less trivial.

The default is still ext3, though.

Tthe i686 java plugin is at /usr/lib/java/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so. Guess where is the x86_64 one.. /usr/lib/java/jre/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so.

Logical - dear Sun -, eh?

So I went offline for skiing for about 11 days (Jan 30 06:24:13-Feb 10 00:48:09 to be exact), and I forgot that suspend to RAM works only for a few days. My normal notebook of course switched off. But interesting enough, the iBook still did not switch off, it said the battery even had 5%! :)

Yeah, I still love this HW.

This is useful if you really want to record the audio of a clip, which is not on youtube (you can use youtube-dl there).

The howto explains pretty much everything.

Here are the amixer parameters I needed:

amixer cset numid=24,iface=MIXER,name='Capture Source' 5

~/.asoundrc:

pcm.copy { type plug slave { pcm hw } route_policy copy }

record commandline:

arecord -f cd -t wav -D copy foo.wav

Not that I'm a web2.0 maniac, but I registered on twitter.

I think the only purpose I will use it - for now - is to microblog when I'm offline for multiple days, since blogging in that case is expenseve. We'll see.

So it seems OOo 3.0.1 triggers a bug in boost 1.37, hopefully this commit will fix the issue. At least the OOo build did not stop so far..

But my "law" is still true: every openoffice upgrade shows at least one problem in some other package. ;)