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Personal vim tip of the day

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

(Gnu-)Tar option of the day

–exclude-vcs

XBox 360 support of rygel

Short update on the XBox360 support of rygel:
What works

Streaming of transcoded audio and video to the XBox
Browsing through your music collection by album or artist works at least for the media-export plugin. General audio playback should work for every plugin (Using Music library -> Songs)

What doesn’t work:

Seeking in transcoded media. This includes stopping and resuming. [...]

any to WMV

While trying to vamp up XBox 360 support for rygel, I also need a transcoder suitable for the XBox. While H.264 would work it is CPU consuming and hard to get right for the XBox, because it is quite picky. So I decided to go for WMV1/WMA2. Prototype gst-launch commandline:

gst-launch filesrc location=input_file ! decodebin2 name=decoder [...]

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 powershell skripts.

Rygel 0.4.6 released

Rygel 0.4.6 has been released. This is a big step forward to the XBox 360 support as it finally implements search! See the original announcement at Zeenix’ Blog

How to examine binary registry dumps in Linux

Say you have a binary registry export or dump from Windows and need to have a look at its contents. What do you do? The solution I came up with is:

WINEPREFIX=/tmp/dump regedit *.reg

Which gives you nice plain-text ini-style registries to examine in /tmp/dump. That obviously needs Wine installed.

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

Rygel 0.4 release

Rygel 0.4 (Fascinating!) has been released yesterday, so grab it while it’s hot.

Cellphone sync and linux

I once had a cellphone that played very nicely with Linux, the good old Siemens S55. Unfortunately, my SE P1i doesn’t. I tried various combinations of Multisync or OpenSync, nothing helped. Today I bit the bullet and installed funambol with syncevolution. What shall I say, apart from having to run a ~250Meg Java Application server [...]