So when trying to understand others' code, and they use large while/for/if blocks, it's hard to see where one if ends, unless it's on the same page so vim highlights it. I remembered already once that there is a char to jump to the start { of such a block from its end } and vica-versa, but I forgot it, so now I had to look it up again. It's '%'. :-)

So my problem was that I already set up PGP, and I use it for sending / receiving signed (and sometimes crypted) messages. Today I received an S/MIME signed message and I had to verify it.

First mutt just bailed out with "Can't verify S/MIME signature", but that was because S/MIME was not configured. Here is what I did:

cd ~/.mutt
cp /usr/share/doc/mutt-ng/samples/smime.rc .
# edit muttrc to source it

I thought that will be enough, but that was too aggressive.

First, it disabled my PGP support. I had to put 'unset smime_is_default' to the top of smime.rc.

Second, it tried to verify the whole damn cert chain, which is simply something I can't really care, as the cert is a self-signed cert anyway. To do this, I had to uncomment the last two lines in smime.rc (set smime_verify_command/smime_verify_opaque_command).

So far it works just like I wanted it! :)

I wasted some hours debugging till I found out how to set the fontpath of a freenx-server if not using XFS.

Basically just need to fine-tune /etc/nxserver/node.conf:

DEFAULT_FONT_PATH=$(echo $(grep -v '^ *#' /etc/X11/xorg.conf | grep FontPath | awk \
'{print $2}' | sed -r "s/^[\"']|[\"']$//g") | sed 's/ /,/g')
AGENT_EXTRA_OPTIONS_X="-fp $DEFAULT_FONT_PATH"

Based on this post.

I just noticed that scootertechno.com has no RSS, so I wrote one. Available here, or in "binary form", here.

So swig uses two spaces instead of tabs, horrible. But I'll get used to it - just I don't want to fuck up my vimrc just because of their idiotic settings.

Here is the trick:

au BufRead */swig*/* set tabstop=8 | set shiftwidth=2 | set softtabstop=2 | set expandtab " SWIG
au BufRead */swig*/Source/* set tabstop=8 | set shiftwidth=2 | set softtabstop=2 | set noexpandtab " SWIG Source
au BufNewFile,BufRead *.i set filetype=swig
au BufNewFile,BufRead *.swg set filetype=swig

The swig syntax file is here.

So upstream recently released hal 0.5.12 and it's maintained by crazy who seem to be a bit busy currently, and I don't really wanted to bump his pkg (actually I tried and I failed), but I bumped our udev pkg yesterday so we no longer has libvolume_id. So I backported the relevant patch from git and it seems to work. ;)

(Actually the header is informative, but fake as I created the patch from scratch, based on the one which was in git.)

Okay, this is a crazy idea, but I love asciidoc. So the pipeline is the following: asciidoc -> docbook -> latex -> pdf -> odp -> ppt.

The fun part is that docbook is XML and then later I convert the stuff back to XML again (odp), but that's necessary as latex adds the nice themes and layout to the text.

Also the method is semi-automated as I generate latex from asciidoc, then copy&paste it to a latex-beamer document with some manual fixup, then I can convert the rest in a more or less automated way. Time to package odfpy and other affected, but not yet packaged components. ;-)

Here. I have no idea if this one will be ignored as well - since two of my reports (here and there) are already ignored.. :/

I hit this issue a few times, but now I took the time to Google it out. So when I download lots of music to my Nokia 3110c phone, I keeps restarting because the Nokia version of OOM killer terminates the music indexer process. Given that it's a vital process (I don't know the proper term for this), the phone is restarted. It does this sequence about 5 times, then it just switches off.

The trick is to delay indexing, if it does so a bit later after the phone boot is already done, it can succeed properly. The hack is to limit the internal memory free space, that will trigger this delay:

Now Keep ur free Phone memory space [Not the memory card's free space] between 470kb - 499kb

The style is horrible, but the info is useful, after setting free space like this, it can really handled large amount of music fine. ;)

They say so. :)

Time to unsubscribe from the git list and append #git to activity_hide_targets. ;/

A list of (AFAIK) all Hungarian students:

Istvan Szakats Kornél Lugosi Balazs Dianiska Geza Kovacs Gabor Kovesdan gabor janos pali Tamás Sallai Gergely Patai Kornél Pál Miklos Erdelyi Peter Somlo Miklos Vajna Viktor Gal.

So now we are 13, it's interesting because AFAIK we were only 6 last year, when more students were accepted in general. ;)

Update:

I missed two of them:

tom ilsinszki gergo erdosi