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1.21 Gigawatts

Jens — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 10:38:44 +0000

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 gÂ³ltige SchlÂ³sselwertedatei 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 **: Failed to create context for host/IP '{8946F41B-6765-4205-8238-82786C175392}': Der Vorgang wurde erfolgreich beendet.

** (rygel.exe:8080): WARNING **: Failed to create context for host/IP '{846EE342-7039-11DE-9D20-806E6F6E6963}': Der Vorgang wurde erfolgreich beendet.

A plea agains tofu

Jens — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 10:44:47 +0000

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 was precious and expensive. Quoting rules existed like don’t quote too many levels, answer inline etc. When moving on to the internet, I mostly kept this.

I dropped writing emails like this like five years ago, when I entered the magical world of business emails. Noone understood inline replys and most people were complaining that the communication history was missing. So I adapted, at least at work. And Outlook 2007 even has support for navigating in mails like those. I also understand why a certain kind of people like it. When you print the mail, you only need to print one mail and have the whole conversation at hand.

But honestly. I’m doing a lot of mail on my mobile phone currently. Fetching mails is not too fast on there. I don’t want to download 200k for a simple “Me too”. I don’t want to scroll through all of the shit. I don’t event want to download the same shit again and again. I already have the communication history available.

Rygel repository moved

Jens — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:56:34 +0000

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

Personal vim tip of the day

Jens — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:46:20 +0000

au BufRead,BufNewFile *.vala \
let g:netrw_sort_sequence = '[\/]$,\%(\.\d\+\)\=,\.[a-np-z]$,\.vala,\.h$,\.c$,\.cpp$,*,\.o$,\.obj$,\.info$,\.swp$,\.bak$,\~$'

(Gnu-)Tar option of the day

Jens — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 10:54:09 +0000

--exclude-vcs

pmp 0.1 released

Jens — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 13:25:49 +0000

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 pmp’s terminus for a captured app), run
pmp-create --url= --name=
You can also create a desktop icon by passing it the --desktop parameter. If you want to use the site’s favicon, use --icon=:favicon

To run the edge, call pmp-run --name=

Known limitations:
It does not work properly with Google’s apps. Google does some weird URL redirects. I’m working on that. Apps known to work are WordPress and TT RSS.

Making putty look nice on Windows

Jens — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:24:52 +0000

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 powershell skripts.

Rygel 0.4.1 is out

Jens — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:22:10 +0000

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

Jens — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 10:08:13 +0000

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 in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/195982)

Mono vs. COM

Jens — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 10:05:41 +0000

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 your attention.