Here’s a nice tip that I found today in Gentoo’s forum, just in case someone is having the same problem I had: no sound in flash movies inside Firefox - ALSA modules from kernel 2.6.29-gentoo-r5 and adobe-flash-10.0.22.87.
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-5831435.html#5831435
see ya!
Hey, how’s it going? :P
My 6210 just arrived, and the first thing I did was install Garmin Mobile XT, as it is a navigation tool way better than Nokia Maps (blah blah blah :P)
Follow the steps found here http://nimrag.forumbrasil.net/tutoriais-f3/instalando-e-desbloqueando-o-garmin-mobile-xt-no-n95-t83.htm (sorry folks, portuguese only… but straightforward enough to do without understanding a word in portuguese :D)
A big thanks to Marcio Freitas, the guy who wrote the tutorial. Nice job.
Wow, how long, how long!
After one month in US (Austin-TX), I’m back to Brazil with so many good stuff to tell :). I’ve been there to help writing the IBM BladeCenter JS23 and JS43 Implementation Guide, which you can get the draft here http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpieces/abstracts/sg247740.html?Open. Comments on the book contents are very welcome.
That was an amazing experience, as I had the opportunity to work with many high skilled people and learned a lot about Storage and Virtualization on IBM BladeCenters.
Other than that, I had time to visit my friend Thiago in College Station, where I met many Brazilian students and had a very pleasant time. Now I know how Brazilian bbq is famous in US :D
You can see some pictures from Austin here: http://gallery.trustlix.org/v/austin_april_09/
Sorry for the long time without posting, but it was for a good reason!!
I was kind of “afraid” of moving from my KDE3.5 to KDE4. You know, this KDE3.5 is the one I’ve been running for the last 3 years, and was working like a charm. Everything in its right place, with my themes, my icons, chinese input, accesskeys, OOohh God, 3 years with the same installation aren’t 3 days :D
But the time comes to everything, and it knocked KDE’s door as well. I was willing to have those fancy widgets in my desktop and also have a taste of the so called semantic-desktop (nice catch indeed). I tried KDE4 beta/rc and kde4.1, and I was very confused on “why have they released something so _unfinished_?”.. and then just got back to my old 3.5.
Today, I finally had the time to put KDE4.2 running in my notebook, and I’m really impressed with KDE’s evolution. It’s getting mature and very usable… works out of the “emerge”, I’d say (Yeah, I use Gentoo), and I feel the time came to me to move on and start using 4.2 :)
Till now everything is fine. Had some troubles with Akonadi server, but got them resolved quickly. I’m afraid I’ll have some hard time to bring all my kdepim configurations back, but this is another story, another post.
So far so good!
Kudos for the KDE team!
Yeah, I like music soooo much ;) Here’s a nice article on how to convert an .ape (Monkey’s Audio file) to either MP3 or Ogg formats.
http://gimpel.gi.funpic.de/wiki/index.php?title=Howto:convert_ape_to_wav/mp3/ogg_on_Linux
I used the cueape.sh script, and to be honest, it does the work pretty well!
Just found out this nice post http://liquidat.wordpress.com/2007/12/03/short-tip-convert-ogg-file-to-mp3/ showing how to convert ogg files to mp3. Had to apply some changes to the command line, so here it is (just in case you need it like I did):
The only flaw is that music tags (artist, album, etc) get lost in the process. There must be a way to maintain them in the mp3 file, but I haven’t had the time to play with it yet …
If you’re looking for color schemes for Vim, then you’ll enjoy the following link:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~maverick/VimColorSchemeTest/
Some of the schemes will work only in the Vim’s graphical interface (GVim), but there are others with color configs for Vim (running on a terminal, like xterm).
If you want a scheme that will work on vim in the terminal, make sure it has cterm, ctermbg and ctermfg configs. It’s also a good idea to run vim on a 256 color terminal. Take a look on these pointers for more on this:
I’ve been trying to find a nice way for printing chm files in book style - no lucky!
Both Xchm and Kchmviewer are very good programs for viewing chm files in the computer, but they lack the ability to print whole documents at once (if some one knows how to do that with these apps, please drop a comment/email/whatever :D)
Then I came to know this great project - chm2pd. Just get it, install it with its dependencies (very easy, just follow the steps in the README that comes with the source code) and you’re ready to go! Convert your chm files to pdf and print them as you please.
More on this great script cand be found on: http://www.karakas-online.de/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10275
I had a problem today and I’d like to share the solution :P
Imagine you have some ISO files exported on a NFS server, and then you mount the directory with this ISO files in the local computer. Something like:
Ok, this way you’ll have all your ISO files at /mnt/isos. Now, imagine you want to mount one of these ISOs in loopback:
OOppss.. Permission denied??? Hmmm.. I got stuck with this problem for almost 30 minutes. Tried changing permissions and exporting parameters, Google, but no answer at all… then… fortunately…. I found it: -o loop,ro!
YEAH! It cost me 30 minutes :P
Yes, I’m a Gkrellm fan!…
…And I thought about writing a Gkrellm plugin to ge stock quotes from Bovespa (using Yahoo! API), but, before start doing that, I found gkrellstock (http://gkrellstock.sourceforge.net/).
This is a very simple frontend to the Finance-Quote Perl’s module (http://search.cpan.org/~hampton/), and saved me some time ;D
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