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Sunday, May 4. 2008
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Wednesday, April 30. 2008
OK, the update to Hardy Heron went fine.
There is just one glitch: I can't rip CDs with abcde anymore.
[texjoachim@gurgi: ~/mp3/Heavy/extorian/unveiled] abcde /dev/hda
[ERROR] abcde: syntax error while processing track numbers
[ERROR] abcde: CDROM device cannot be found.
I was told that all things ATA are now SCSI, but this doesn't seem to help:
[texjoachim@gurgi: ~/mp3/Heavy/extorian/unveiled] abcde /dev/scd0
[ERROR] abcde: syntax error while processing track numbers
[ERROR] abcde: CDROM device cannot be found.
Now, what do I do?
Using something else to rip CDs is possible, but I've finetuned my abcde and I really don't want to adapt to something else.
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Monday, April 14. 2008
| What American accent do you have? Your Result: The Northeast Judging by how you talk you are probably from north Jersey, New York City, Connecticut or Rhode Island. Chances are, if you are from New York City (and not those other places) people would probably be able to tell if they actually heard you speak. | | Philadelphia | | | The Inland North | | | The Midland | | | The South | | | Boston | | | The West | | | North Central | | What American accent do you have?
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Posted by Joe in
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Thursday, February 21. 2008
I need to keep three folders synced on notebook and desktop. All of them are exported via Samba.
Because GRsync cannot work with smb, I mount the shares on my notebook. (I'm lazy, so I use pyneighborhood for this.) Now GRsync should work, but all the German umlauts are broken and therefore syncing results in a mess.
I've tried various combinations of mounting options and codepages in smb.conf on the desktop. All to no avail.
So, I'm down to using rsync directly via ssh. This should not give me umlaut trouble, right? Now all I need is to enable ssh on Gutsy and find a suitable script to sync.
Any ideas for this?
Posted by Joe in
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Tuesday, February 19. 2008
Just a quick note that Ubuntu 7.10 works fine on a Dell Inspiron 1525. Setting up wifi was a piece of cake!
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Sunday, December 30. 2007
The artist at work:
The artist explaining her work:
What? You didn't get it?
Posted by Joe in
OpenSource, Software, Usual Madness
Tuesday, December 25. 2007
Enjoy!
Posted by Joe in
OpenSource, Software, Ubuntu
Sunday, December 23. 2007
Now that Philip showed off his Ubuntu desktop, I thought I'd share mine, too.
Nice and clean:
Doing some work:
Details
Applications: Gilouche by sgarrity, available from GNOME Art.
Window Borders: Clearlooks, available from Ubuntu repositories.
Icons: Tango, available from Ubuntu repositories. Don't forget to install the corresponding OpenOffice.org theme, too. Your OO.org will look rather strange if you forget it.
Wallpaper:One of my winter photos. Get it here:
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Thursday, December 20. 2007
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Thursday, December 13. 2007
In this post I complained about a font problem.
Looks like an update to Cairo caused it.
After this update, the fonts in question wouldn't crash the applications anymore, but they still couldn't be displayed:
Today, after this one, I can finally enjoy the fonts again:
Posted by Joe in
OpenSource, Software, Ubuntu
Friday, December 7. 2007
I have a strange font problem with Ubuntu. The fonts in question are:
- Albany
- Cumberland
- Andale Sans UI
- Andale Sans
- Thorndale
All of these come with the StarOffice versions from at least 6 to 8. There wouldn't be a problem if I didn't like two of the fonts so much that I use them as my default fonts in Gnome: Albany and Thorndale.
They worked in Warty, Edgy, Dapper, Feisty and also work in a fresh install of Gutsy, too.
But once I update Gutsy to include the latest fixes, every Gnome app (and even the Gnome panels!) will crash with a segfault when these fonts are used.
Here is the error message:
[texjoachim@gurgi: ~] gnome-appearance-properties
Floating point exception (core dumped)
Here is a strace version:
[...]
gettimeofday({1197105492, 523685}, NULL) = 0
open("/home/texjoachim/.fonts/albanyc.ttf", O_RDONLY) = 47
fcntl64(47, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0
fstat64(47, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0664, st_size=307008, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 307008, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 47, 0) = 0xb3c35000
close(47) = 0
write(3, "\22\0\7\0\32\1`\4\373\0\0\0\6\0\0\0 \4\5\0\1\0\0\0+2\f"..., 552) = 552
ioctl(3, FIONREAD, [32]) = 0
read(3, "\5\1=\36k2\f\271\245\1\0\0003\1`\4\0\0\0\0\334\1\315\1"..., 32) = 32
gettimeofday({1197105492, 624529}, NULL) = 0
poll([{fd=6, events=POLLIN}, {fd=3, events=POLLIN}, {fd=11, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=13, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=14, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=15, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=17, events=POLLIN}, {fd=8, events=POLLIN}, {fd=16, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}], 9, 0) = 0
ioctl(3, FIONREAD, [0]) = 0
gettimeofday({1197105492, 624740}, NULL) = 0
poll([{fd=6, events=POLLIN}, {fd=3, events=POLLIN}, {fd=11, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=13, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=14, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=15, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=17, events=POLLIN}, {fd=8, events=POLLIN}, {fd=16, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}], 9, 0) = 0
ioctl(3, FIONREAD, [0]) = 0
gettimeofday({1197105492, 625291}, NULL) = 0
poll([{fd=6, events=POLLIN}, {fd=3, events=POLLIN}, {fd=11, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=13, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=14, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=15, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=17, events=POLLIN}, {fd=8, events=POLLIN}, {fd=16, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}], 9, 0) = 0
write(3, "5\30\4\0b\3`\4B\1`\4\254\1,\0\235\4\5\0c\3`\4b\3`\4R\1"..., 6736) = 6736
read(3, 0xbfcddddc, 32) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN, revents=POLLIN}], 1, -1) = 1
read(3, "\1\30j\36\344E\0\0\0\0\0\0\360\222]\10H5\245\277
readv(3, [{"\327\337\345\272\327\340\345\267\341\347\353*\342\351\355"..., 71568}, {"", 0}], 2) = 71568
writev(3, [{"8\30\4\0e\0`\4\0\0\10\0\0\0\0\0;\2\5\0e\0`\4\0\0\0\0\0"..., 60}, {"\327\337\345\272\263\275\304\315}\211\222\323cpz\377cp"..., 71568}], 2) = 71628
--- SIGFPE (Floating point exception) @ 0 (0) ---
+++ killed by SIGFPE (core dumped) +++
Process 11993 detached
This doesn't tell me anything, but I hope that someone out there might be able to make use of this.
BTW: All of the fonts in question display fine in Gnome's font viewer and can be used in OpenOffice.org and StarOffice without any problem.
I'm currently trying to find other fonts on my system which exhibit the same behaviour. Here is a first list:
- Arial Black
- Arial Narrow
- Garamond
- Imprint MT Shadow
- Kidprint
- Palace Script
- Palace Script MT
What is wrong with those fonts? Or, why doesn't Gnome like them?
Posted by Joe in
OpenSource, Software, Ubuntu
Wednesday, October 24. 2007
How do you use the screen corners in Compiz?
Here is my setup:
Top Left: Expo
Top Right: Shift Switcher
Bottom Right: Scale
Bottom Left: Nothing. Any idea what to put there?
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