I prefer to use git over CVS. Unfortunately the main repository where all Fedora packages are located uses CVS.
Takis blog contains a very useful guide for working with git on projects located on a CVS-server.
Thanks Takis!
Making Adobe Flash work on a 64-bit Fedora 11
On the Fedora Wiki there is an excellent article which made my Fedora 11 (x86_64) run Flash 10.
This is a copy-paste from the article:
This is a copy-paste from the article:
Adobe also has a pre-release version of a 64-bit plugin. Until this is supported via yum, you will need to do the following:
1. Download the .tar.gz version from Adobe here.
2. Use "gtar -xzvf" to extract libflashplayer.so and put it in either in /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/ or ~/.mozilla/plugins/.
3. Restart Firefox.
Splitting videos with mencoder
YouTube does not allow videos to be longer than 10 minutes. I really have the need to split videos... Googling for this issue brought me to MisterHowTo.com.
Splitting a video looks like this (first 6 minutes and 5 seconds):
And the second part with offset 6 minutes 5 seconds:
After uploading these videos they will be available in their own playlist.
Splitting a video looks like this (first 6 minutes and 5 seconds):
$ mencoder -endpos 00:06:05 -ovc copy -oac copy leeuw-tuominen_0-2.AVI -o leeuw-tuominen_0-2_a.avi
MEncoder 1.0rc1-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T5500 @ 1.66GHz (Family: 6, Model: 15, Stepping: 2)
CPUflags: Type: 6 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx SSE SSE2
success: format: 0 data: 0x0 - 0x2e8da65c
AVI file format detected.
VIDEO: [MJPG] 640x480 24bpp 30.000 fps 9219.7 kbps (1125.4 kbyte/s)
[V] filefmt:3 fourcc:0x47504A4D size:640x480 fps:30.00 ftime:=0.0333
videocodec: framecopy (640x480 24bpp fourcc=47504a4d)
audiocodec: framecopy (format=1 chans=1 rate=16000 bits=8 B/s=16000 sample-1)
Writing header...
ODML: Aspect information not (yet?) available or unspecified, not writing vprp header.
Writing header...
ODML: Aspect information not (yet?) available or unspecified, not writing vprp header.
Writing index...51f (54%) 3343.82fps Trem: 0min 744mb A-V:0.033 [9219:128]
Writing header...
ODML: Aspect information not (yet?) available or unspecified, not writing vprp header.
Video stream: 9219.507 kbit/s (1152438 B/s) size: 420678432 bytes 365.033 secs 10951 frames
Audio stream: 128.000 kbit/s (16000 B/s) size: 5840000 bytes 365.000 secs
And the second part with offset 6 minutes 5 seconds:
$ mencoder -ss 00:06:05 -ovc copy -oac copy leeuw-tuominen_0-2.AVI -o leeuw-tuominen_0-2_b.avi
MEncoder 1.0rc1-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T5500 @ 1.66GHz (Family: 6, Model: 15, Stepping: 2)
CPUflags: Type: 6 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx SSE SSE2
success: format: 0 data: 0x0 - 0x2e8da65c
AVI file format detected.
VIDEO: [MJPG] 640x480 24bpp 30.000 fps 9219.7 kbps (1125.4 kbyte/s)
[V] filefmt:3 fourcc:0x47504A4D size:640x480 fps:30.00 ftime:=0.0333
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [pcm] Uncompressed PCM audio decoder
AUDIO: 16000 Hz, 1 ch, u8, 128.0 kbit/100.00% (ratio: 16000->16000)
Selected audio codec: [pcm] afm: pcm (Uncompressed PCM)
==========================================================================
videocodec: framecopy (640x480 24bpp fourcc=47504a4d)
audiocodec: framecopy (format=1 chans=1 rate=16000 bits=8 B/s=16000 sample-1)
Writing header...
ODML: Aspect information not (yet?) available or unspecified, not writing vprp header.
Writing header...
ODML: Aspect information not (yet?) available or unspecified, not writing vprp header.
Writing index...90f (100%) 377.05fps Trem: 0min 337mb A-V:0.033 [9219:128]
Writing header...
ODML: Aspect information not (yet?) available or unspecified, not writing vprp header.
Video stream: 9219.688 kbit/s (1152460 B/s) size: 349195660 bytes 303.000 secs 9090 frames
Audio stream: 128.000 kbit/s (16000 B/s) size: 4848059 bytes 303.004 secs
After uploading these videos they will be available in their own playlist.
Squash for 2016
It would be great if squash becomes an Olympic sport in 2016!
More promotion at http://squash2016.info.
Cloning xorg/freedesktop git projects over http
The network policy at my work makes me use a proxy-server. Unfortunately it looks like x.org or freedesktop.org does not support git usage over http. Just browsing to http://anongit.freedesktop.org does show an error which lets me guess that this server supports cloning over http. Indeed, afer some wrong URLs I've found a working one!
A complete list of projects is available from http://cgit.freedesktop.org.
export http_proxy=http://proxy:81
git clone http://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/xserver.git xorg-xserver
A complete list of projects is available from http://cgit.freedesktop.org.
Sync Google Contacts with Thunderbird
Google Contacts is an Add-On for Thunderbird which creates an additional address book with your Google contacts.
Great tool!
Great tool!
CentOS-5 and file sharing over bluetooth
Dag Wieers wrote a very nice and simple blogpost called "OBEX for dummies. This post helped me getting bluetooth file-sharing work in less than five minutes. Thanks Dag! Tried to post a comment on the blog, however that failed for some reason...)
Switching from Linux to OpenBSD?
That grumpy BSD guy: Into a new year, slowly pounding the gates makes me think again about switching my Linux server (with lots of hacking attempts) to a more peaceful OpenBSD...
Support special functions keys on laptops with Linux
It's very uncool that some of the keys on my HP/Compaq nc6400 are not working by default. I get following messages in
Jiri Koshina pointed me to HAL Keymap Quirks which is written by a Red Hat engineer.
For these (and a lot more) keys I (and you) need at least hal-0.5.10 as said in the link above from Jiri. The keys supported by hal are available in the
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/hal-info/tree/fdi/information/10freedesktop
dmesg:atkbd.c: Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0xd9 on isa0060/serio0).
atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e059 ' to make it known.
atkbd.c: Unknown key released (translated set 2, code 0xd9 on isa0060/serio0).
atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e059 ' to make it known.
Jiri Koshina pointed me to HAL Keymap Quirks which is written by a Red Hat engineer.
My Results
For these (and a lot more) keys I (and you) need at least hal-0.5.10 as said in the link above from Jiri. The keys supported by hal are available in the
30-keymap-*.fdi files from the hal-info git:http://cgit.freedesktop.org/hal-info/tree/fdi/information/10freedesktop
Takis blog: CVS to GIT and back
Takis blog: CVS to GIT and back contains very nice info for using a CVS-server and a git-client.
Thanks Takis!
Thanks Takis!
