I finally got my webcam to work on skype (sort of). I have a Logitech QuickCam Messenger (046d:08da), which is a v4l2 (video4linux v2) device. Skype only (still) works with v4l version 1. Thus “Houston, we’ve got a problem”!
We all love to listen to music, right? I've been searching for a good music player for windows for a while now. I already found it in Amarok, but that one only runs natively on Linux.
How often does it happen that, when downloading a movie, it's all separated into chunks? You don't want to open file by file when watching that movie. You want to combine all those chunks into a single avi, wmv or mpeg. Mencoder is your solution.
I recently had a Vista installation which gave me an error on every update I tried, namely 80071a91. Googleing 'round brought me to http://blog.stevex.net/index.php/2007/05/21/80071a91/. I tried the suggested solution, finding that the delete statements didn't work: The files were in use by another process. That was quickly solved with a tool from http://www.creativelement.com/ and a reboot. Now I was able to continue the solution method and regain access to Windows updates on this Vista machine.
I had a problem with Windows Vista not accepting an IP address, being offered from a Linux DHCP server. Apart from changing the already known registry entry (DhcpConnEnableBcastFlagToggle), I had to add the following line to my dhcpd.conf
It's out there. We've been waiting for this a long time now, but finally the new name for Postnuke is known: Zikula. Congratulations, guys! The announcement tells us the new is derived from the Zulu language. Read more in theofficial press release.
Linux is better than window$, there, I've said it. On some rare occassions, you still need to run windows and I've tried several options in the past: vmware, qemu, virtualbox... All of them had their backdraws. Most of them just being slow. The latest I've tested is andLinux, and I must say, this one has impressed me the most. You're able to run almost any linux application, directly in windows. You're still running a linux distro (ubuntu) in the background as a windows service and although you need to share your files between the host and the guest, you're actually running the linux application within the windows desktop. All the others I've tested ran those application on the guest desktop. Here is a screenshot, illustrating my point:
Havin' an iso image of the latest movie on dvd is all pretty well, but you still would like to see it. You could mount the image and let xine play the vob files or take advantage of the dvd:// capability of xine like this:
Even handier would be to have that command in your context popup (by right-click'ing the file). To have that in KDE, open up the directory "~/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus/" and make a xine_iso.desktop file with the following content.
Now right-click an iso image file and look under "Actions"
When reading the newsgroups I follow in Thunderbird, I always like the most recent messages to be displayed on top. However Thunderbird adds them on the bottom by default. No problem there, however when resorting the column, it unthreads the messages, so you need to group them together again. Why? because a setting in thunderbird tells it to. So, in the Options on the General tab, select the config editor and change the the value of mailnews.thread_pane_column_unthreads to false. Now, when resorting the messages by hitting the column title, it keeps all of them grouped by thread.
It took me a while to figure out what happed but the MediaWiki installation I have running on my intranet suddenly started spitting out errors pages like : Method Not Implemented POST to /mediawiki/index.php not supported. I had recently upgraded mediawiki, so I thought that was the problem, just another bug. However that was not the case. Later on I stumbled upon the next message:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki/22001, which provided me with the knowledge that mod_security was blocking the POST request. Disabling it, made mediawiki work correctly again.
In regard to the previous entry on tiOPF and MySQL, a course on OOP programming in Delphi might be useful reviewing. Combine this with tiOPF's TtiDataset, separate the user interfaces from the business logic using OOP and you can start creating killer applications with virtually any database in the backend.
tiOPF is an Open Source Object Persistance Framework for Delphi. However there was no support for MySQL. Zeos was already experimentaly included, but only for firebird. Although it's very preliminary code with almost no testing done, the basics of a persistance layer for MySQL in tiOPF has now been created by yours truly. Have a look in the binary newsgroup of tiOPF. I still have to verify the different fieldtypes returned by Zeoslib. The tiOPF demo's seems work at first glance... Feel to test it out.
Documentation is so very important when writing software. But some never learn: They write their documentation in Word! You can't make a worse choice. Luckily these documents are easily converted to the DocBook format. Infinite-loop made a java application called upCast to do the job. It converts Word documents to DocBook , by saving them to rtf first. Once you have a DocBook version of your documentation, you can start publishing it in whatever format you want using xslt stylesheets. A nifty little program, called DocMan, can process DocBook into html, xhtml, pdf, chm. In other words, you have one source of your documentation and different output formats.
This blog was due to a bit of change. As you notice I've altered the theme to match the main sitehttp://www.bravecobra.com. I've also included a star rating system and added syntax highlighting, which will become very useful in the future. Furthermore I've added plugins to add to add YouTube and Google video's.B2Evolution plugins:
