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iwiw.net vs firefox

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So iwiw.net has some flash + js interface to upload photos, but it seems firefox just segfaults here when I want to upload ones. Good idea, I should not bother with doing so.

I've wrote a small script to merge all the lilypond PDFs I have to a single one. Far from perfect, but it's a start.

I've just found album. It's an HTML index + thumbnail generator, it's a bit bloated, but it's not hard to tell it you don't want any extra features. Just downloading the script to $HOME/bin is enough and it can live without downloading any bloated themes.

Ah and the thread on fw-dev about the intel driver vs kms just sucks. I don't have time to build 2.6.32rc1 right now...


launchpad brute-force maintenance

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Funny, when there is a maintenance on launchpad, they just filter the ssh port on the server, so you get:

ssh: connect to host bazaar.launchpad.net port 22: Connection timed out

Snip. I spent my time earlier today to make package moves in FST easier. Finally I modified the checkout plugin of our git hook framework so that if a FrugalBuild is moved from one dir to another, then the other files from the old dir are moved to the new dir as well.


Interactive revert in git

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It's a long time since 'dg rev' could be replaced by 'git checkout -p', but that feature was missing from git.git. In the near past it got implemented and you can even avoid hitting enter after every y/n by saying:

git config interactive.singlekey true

One less feature which is unique to dg! (In the long run it would be nice if I could stop recommending its usage to users.)


a2beamer and scalable graphics

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I spent some time with figuring out how to include piecharts and graphs in presentations.

The nice fact is that both metapost and graphviz output eps, so the result is totally scalable. ;)


a2beamer

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I just wrote a little script to allow generating beamer slides from asciidoc source.

Snip. Vim tip of the day: you can do a word count on the current selected range if you press 'g' then ^G. (source)


KMS

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I gave kernel-mode setting a try today with xorg-server 1.6.1, xf86-video-intel 2.8.1 and kernel 2.6.31.

From the NEWS file:

The driver certainly will work best with an i915 module from a recent kernel (2.6.31) and with kernel-modesetting (KMS, specified by loading i915 with the option "modeset=1").

Here is the result I got.

Given that the Fedora people enabled KMS in 2.6.28, and now the kernel guys say that it's really fine in 2.6.31, I should probably give it a try next time around 2.6.34. ;)


d2x, darcs-fast-import and the asciidoc repo

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https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/NcAERI7ce8wxCIZ8XhvTZguymMVdpDTlpS1FjU-3AoGji204BO5Ig5I624XpRXZEWRmhpnEx77nJtFvjqqY_1XKVL5cjHjIgfZGwEOVHbomN_UiWwS57M1KC2qkW0GH3GsHqyq-DKA=w640

I proposed a new merge for bzr-fastimport with the following hilights:

  • darcs-fast-import can now import the asciidoc hg repo

  • d2x -f hg (which converts a darcs repo to a hg one) now works with hg 1.3, and without my hg fastimport fork. The later is something I’m really happy about, because I hated recommending my hg fastimport patches, not being a hg person. :)


darcs-fast-import bug with the trytond repo

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I got this bugreport today, luckily the fix was simple enough that I could provide it within 24 hours, yay. :)


b2evo 3

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I had an "upgrade to latest b2evo 2.x stable" on my TODO for a long time and then I realized that I would have to upgrade to 3.x. That’s a nightmare, when I switched from 1.x to 2.x it took a few days till I ported my patchset to the new major version. Now that these days I don’t care about details so much, I just decided to drop my hacks and return to the vanilla b2evo. This way the upgrade took only about 5 mins and as a side effect my hacking posts are included on the main page as well.


algr on ppc in gtk apps

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I just had to notice that recently the altgr key (right apple button) on my iBook does not work in GTK apps. But it does in QT ones. Of course. ;-)

Though this time it was not a GTK bug but an xorg one.

Now that these days we have git bisect, it was trivial to find the bad commit, though to make bug-hunting still fun, there were numerous xorg modules to poke before I finally figured out this will be an xkeyboard-config bug.

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