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1.21 Gigawatts

The beast is alive… Well. Sort of. Plugins still missing…

$ ./rygel.exe -g 5
** (rygel.exe:8080): WARNING **: Failed to load user configuration: Es wurde keine g³ltige Schl³sselwertedatei in den Suchordnern gefunden
** (rygel.exe:8080): DEBUG: new network context {C457B4A8-2516-46B9-837A-F5167D574A2E} (192.168.200.64) available.

** (rygel.exe:8080): WARNING **: Failed to create context for host/IP ‘{C57C8A03-20D6-4A0F-8C5D-946804401865}’: Der Vorgang wurde erfolgreich beendet.

** (rygel.exe:8080): WARNING **: [...]

A plea agains tofu

No, not the stuff made from soy beans. Tofu is the the german term for a behaviour most likely found in corporate email. It means “Quote full, add your text on the top”. That’s sort of reversed “AOL” behaviour.

When I started email, I came from a FIDO background (anyone remembers this? BBS and stuff?). Connection time [...]

Rygel repository moved

Friday I moved my rygel repository from github to gitorious. The gssdp/gupnp etc. stuff will [...]

Personal vim tip of the day

au BufRead,BufNewFile *.vala \
let g:netrw_sort_sequence = [...]

(Gnu-)Tar option of the day

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pmp 0.1 released

I just uploaded pmp 0.1 – Poor man’s prism desktop web application creator to github: http://github.com/phako/pmp

A release tarball can be found here: pmp-0.1.tar.gz

What is pmp?

pmp shares some similarities to Mozilla’s Prism. It creates a “standalone” app from a web application. Pmp uses Webkit as its rendering backend.

How do I use it?

To create an edge (that is [...]

Making putty look nice on Windows

I don’t like the default look of putty on windows, so I usually do two things:

Download the DejaVu fonts
Get this PowerShell skript to tangoify the putty palette
Note: On Windows 7 you might need to enable yourself to be able to execute [...]

Rygel 0.4.1 is out

Due to some last-minute bugs rygel 0.4.1 has been released.

It is also available in debian unstable now [...]

Non-functional ALT key and VMWare

If you’re using VMWare on Linux host, you sometimes might experience that after switching from VM to Host your ALT key (or some other “special” key) stopps working. Found the workaround to correct this: setxkbmap

(Workaround found [...]

Mono vs. COM

Please. I have nothing against C# in general or Mono. But please, please do not encourage the use of something as broken as COM, even if it’s to ease the bridging between C# and C++.

Thank you for [...]