Older blog entries for asmodai (starting at number 29)

Windows 7 and the Windows Audio Service

Strange thing, after logging in my Windows 7 task tray suddenly showed my volume icon as a red cross and hovering over it said that the “Audio Service is not running”. Looking at the services by means of services.msc shows that my Creative Audio Service and Windows Audio Service are both running. Restarting the Windows Audio Service and Creative Audio Service fixed the display issue. Apparently just changing the volume ought to fix the display of the icon as well.

Syndicated 2009-11-30 06:43:26 from In Nomine - The Lotus Land

Office 2010 Chinese language pack font list

FZShuTi
FZYaoTi
LiSu
Microsoft YaHei
Microsoft YaHei Bold
STCaiyun
STFangsong
STHupo
STKaiti
STLiti
STSong
STXihei
STXingkai
STXinwei
STZhongsong
YouYuan

It looks like the Chinese Office 2010 font list is the following (Changzhou SinoType, Founder, Microsoft, Stone):

  • FZShuTi
  • FZYaoTi
  • LiSu
  • Microsoft YaHei
  • Microsoft YaHei Bold
  • STCaiyun
  • STFangsong
  • STHupo
  • STKaiti
  • STLiti
  • STSong
  • STXihei
  • STXingkai
  • STXinwei
  • STZhongsong
  • YouYuan

Syndicated 2009-11-29 18:01:40 from In Nomine - The Lotus Land

Office 2010 Japanese language pack font list

It looks like the Japanese Office 2010 font list is the following (all by RICOH):

HGGothicE
HGGothicM Medium
HGGyoshotai Medium
HGKyokashotai Medium
HGMaruGothicMPRO
HGMinchoB Bold
HGMinchoE
HGPGothicE
HGPGothicM Medium
HGPGyoshotai Medium
HGPKyokashotai Medium
HGPMinchoB Bold
HGPMinchoE
HGPSoeiKakugothicUB
HGPSoeiKakupoptai
HGPSoeiPresence EB Extra-Bold
HGSeikaishotaiPRO
HGSGothicE
HGSGothicM Medium
HGSGyoshotai Medium
HGSKyokashotai Medium
HGSMinchoB Bold
HGSMinchoE
HGSoeiKakugothicUB
HGSoeiKakupoptai
HGSoeiPresenceE Extra-Bold
HGSSoeiKakugothicUB
HGSSoeiKakupoptai
HGSSoeiPresence EB Extra-Bold
  • HGGothicE
  • HGGothicM Medium
  • HGGyoshotai Medium
  • HGKyokashotai Medium
  • HGMaruGothicMPRO
  • HGMinchoB Bold
  • HGMinchoE
  • HGPGothicE
  • HGPGothicM Medium
  • HGPGyoshotai Medium
  • HGPKyokashotai Medium
  • HGPMinchoB Bold
  • HGPMinchoE
  • HGPSoeiKakugothicUB
  • HGPSoeiKakupoptai
  • HGPSoeiPresence EB Extra-Bold
  • HGSeikaishotaiPRO
  • HGSGothicE
  • HGSGothicM Medium
  • HGSGyoshotai Medium
  • HGSKyokashotai Medium
  • HGSMinchoB Bold
  • HGSMinchoE
  • HGSoeiKakugothicUB
  • HGSoeiKakupoptai
  • HGSoeiPresenceE Extra-Bold
  • HGSSoeiKakugothicUB
  • HGSSoeiKakupoptai
  • HGSSoeiPresence EB Extra-Bold

Syndicated 2009-11-29 14:55:55 from In Nomine - The Lotus Land

Office 2010 font list

It seems the Office 2010 font list is the following (English installation):

Algerian
Arial Unicode MS
Baskerville Old Face
Bauhaus 93
Bell MT
Berlin Sans FB
Bernard MT Condensed
Bodoni MT Poster Compressed Light
Book Antiqua
Bookman Old Style
Bookshelf Symbol 7
Britannic Bold
Broadway
Brush Script MT Italic
Californian FB
Centaur
Century Gothic
Century
Chiller
Colonna MT
Cooper Black
Footlight MT Light
Freestyle Script
Garamond
Haettenschweiler
Harlow Solid Semi Expanded Italic
Harrington
High Tower Text
Informal Roman
Jokerman
Juice ITC
Kristen ITC
Kunstler Script
Latin Wide
Lucide Bright
Lucida Calligraphy Italic
Lucida Fax
Lucida Handwriting Italic
Magneto Bold
Matura MT Script Capitals
Mistral
Modern No. 20
Modern
Monotype Corsiva Italic
MS Outlook
MS Reference Sans Serif
MS Reference Specialty
MS Sans Serif
MS Serif
MT Extra
Niagara Engraved
Niagara Solid
OCRB Regular
Old English Text MT
Onyx
Parchment
Playbill
Poor Richard
Ravie
Roman
Showcard Gothic
Snap ITC
Stencil
Tempus Sans ITC
Viner Hand ITC
Vivaldi Italic
Vladimir Script
Wingdings 2
Wingdings 3
  • Algerian
  • Arial Unicode MS
  • Baskerville Old Face
  • Bauhaus 93
  • Bell MT
  • Berlin Sans FB
  • Bernard MT Condensed
  • Bodoni MT Poster Compressed Light
  • Book Antiqua
  • Bookman Old Style
  • Bookshelf Symbol 7
  • Britannic Bold
  • Broadway
  • Brush Script MT Italic
  • Californian FB
  • Centaur
  • Century Gothic
  • Century
  • Chiller
  • Colonna MT
  • Cooper Black
  • Footlight MT Light
  • Freestyle Script
  • Garamond
  • Haettenschweiler
  • Harlow Solid Semi Expanded Italic
  • Harrington
  • High Tower Text
  • Informal Roman
  • Jokerman
  • Juice ITC
  • Kristen ITC
  • Kunstler Script
  • Latin Wide
  • Lucide Bright
  • Lucida Calligraphy Italic
  • Lucida Fax
  • Lucida Handwriting Italic
  • Magneto Bold
  • Matura MT Script Capitals
  • Mistral
  • Modern No. 20
  • Modern
  • Monotype Corsiva Italic
  • MS Outlook
  • MS Reference Sans Serif
  • MS Reference Specialty
  • MS Sans Serif
  • MS Serif
  • MT Extra
  • Niagara Engraved
  • Niagara Solid
  • OCRB Regular
  • Old English Text MT
  • Onyx
  • Parchment
  • Playbill
  • Poor Richard
  • Ravie
  • Roman
  • Showcard Gothic
  • Snap ITC
  • Stencil
  • Tempus Sans ITC
  • Viner Hand ITC
  • Vivaldi Italic
  • Vladimir Script
  • Wingdings 2
  • Wingdings 3

Syndicated 2009-11-29 14:54:25 from In Nomine - The Lotus Land

Microsoft Office 2010, typography, and proofing tools

Microsoft has released Office 2010 as a beta that you can use up to and including October 2010 (scheduled to be released in June 2010). You can download it as either 32 or 64 bit, although it seems the 64 bit download is a bit hidden since many buttons for downloading seem to lead to the default 32 bit download. If you follow the link at the Professional Plus site to ‘Get It Now’ you should be presented with links to both versions. At the moment Microsoft supports Chinese (Simplified), English, French, German, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish. If you are like me you just use the application in English, but then miss some of the proofing tools for, say, Japanese.

You can download language packs from the Microsoft Download Center. If you change the language to, say, Japanese you are presented with two download links at the bottom for the Japanese language pack. This language pack includes user interface changes for Japanese as well as proofing tools, OCR support, and fonts.

Once the pack is downloaded just run it and you can customize want you want to install. Since I am not interested in the UI aspects of the pack, I selected the top part and toggled selection for all to not install. Then for the entries 国際フォント (international fonts) and 文章校正ツール (proofing tools) I made sure to install everything. 文章校正ツール includes both 日本語用校正ツール and 英語用校正ツール and I guess you can most likely skip 英語用校正ツール since it is already installed. 国際フォント includes 標準フォント (standards font), which I am guessing is related to JIS X standards for font encodings.

Basic Windows 7 has 134 fonts installed. A basic English Office 2010 install increases this to 198 fonts installed. Installing the Japanese language pack proofing tools with fonts brings this to 228 fonts installed.

If you press the expansion arrow at the bottom-right of the Home part of the ribbon (or press CTRL-D) you will get the Font dialog. If you select the Advanced tab you can turn on features such as OpenType ligatures. This will mean that with text such as ‘fl’ or ‘ffi’ certain parts of the letters will connect instead of showing white space between the letters. This is the same technique used in printed media such as books.

Syndicated 2009-11-29 14:51:54 from In Nomine - The Lotus Land

FreeBSD 7 to FreeBSD 8 update quite painless

So last night I updated my machine to the latest FreeBSD 7-STABLE and from there updated to FreeBSD 8-STABLE (although it’s named PRERELEASE still in the repository). Aside from some minor kernel configuration file revamping the entire effort was just like a regular update.

Syndicated 2009-11-26 09:26:31 from In Nomine - The Lotus Land

James Cameron and his drive

A friend of mine pointed me to this article about James Cameron and his latest film “Avatar”. I am personally much inspired by such things and I hope I share at least some minor part of this kind of zeal in delivering perfectionist accomplishments. I love how he hired experts from different areas of expertise to work on the language, flora, or other parts of his fantasy world, all in all to make the world more consistent. This is the bread and butter of making an experience fully immersive. Sure, it might be wasted on the audience who just goes to watch the movie, but people like myself appreciate this. I am not sure how many experience this, but whenever I play a game where I notice that some design has been reused, watch or read something where I notice the consistency is off I feel kind of let down. I guess it is hard for me to understand why other people would not go the extra mile to avoid such problems.

Syndicated 2009-11-24 12:58:15 from In Nomine - The Lotus Land

Google Groups and Sender header

Since a few days Google Groups mailing lists stopped having a Sender header. Aside from being a violation of RFC 5322 in that this is a SHOULD requirement for mailing lists it also breaks labels in Google Mail as well as procmail filtering. Add to that that moderation messages have strange subjects all of a sudden and I wonder which idiot has been messing around with the mail backend at Google without considering the broader implications.

Syndicated 2009-11-24 08:53:24 from In Nomine - The Lotus Land

Dead on arrival

So I bought a Western Digital My Passport Essential 500 GB external hard disk yesterday. Got home and plugged in on my Windows XP 64 box, USB triggers to find a new device, Windows churns, installs the appropriate support. According the documentation some virtual CD should start installing the appropriate software to use the advanced features (not that I will use them). But nothing happens. So I check disk management and see that it is there, as disk 8, with 2047 GB as size. Wait a second, it’s only a 500 GB version (Hint #1). Next I try updating the firmware from .30 to .32 and the application says it tried too often and failed (Hint #2). Then the downloaded software to manage the drive sees the drive, but cannot do anything with it (Hint #3). Trying from Windows disk management to initialize the drive in order to just format it gives the message that the drive is write protected (Hint #4). Listening to the hard drive yields the typical distinct sound of ‘ticking’ which is a clear indicator that the hard disk is most likely dead.

Time to return it to the shop and get a replacement.

Syndicated 2009-11-20 12:36:25 from In Nomine - The Lotus Land

Trac and Mylyn integration

At work we use Jira for some projects, but the projects I work on use Trac. For many projects an environment like Trac is sufficient. Recently I started to use Eclipse with Pydev for the Python development. Eclipse features a plugin called Mylyn, which allows you to configure a task repository and directly access the tasks in that repository. This is extremely useful, since the repository can also be an instance of Jira or Trac. To connect Mylyn to these repositories you will need a so-called connector. For Jira there’s the Atlassian Connector for Eclipse and for Trac the standard Eclipse repository already has a Mylyn Connector: Trac available. Make sure this is installed.

Next, we need to install some plugins for Trac. On my setup we use AccountManager for authentication and managing of the password files. To make Mylyn talk with Trac we need to add the XML-RPC as well as the HTTPAuth plugin. The XML-RPC plugin is the one that provides XML-RPC methods for Mylyn to talk with Trac. The HTTPAuth plugin is needed if your Trac’s login has been replaced by AccountManager (as is the typical way to use it). HTTPAuth forces certain URL paths (/xmlrpc, /login/xmlrpc) to use standard authentication.

A typical trac.ini will look like this after enabling the appropriate plugins:

[account-manager]
password_file = /usr/local/projects/project1/svn-auth
password_store = HtPasswdStore
 
[components]
acct_mgr.admin.accountmanageradminpage = enabled
acct_mgr.api.accountmanager = enabled
acct_mgr.htfile.htpasswdstore = enabled
acct_mgr.web_ui.accountmodule = enabled
acct_mgr.web_ui.loginmodule = enabled
acct_mgr.web_ui.registrationmodule = disabled
httpauth.* = enabled
trac.web.auth.loginmodule = disabled
tracrpc.* = enabled
 
[httpauth]
paths = /xmlrpc, /login/xmlrpc

After restarting Apache (with mod_wsgi, of course), if you go to http://trac.example.com/project1/xmlrpc it should present you with a user/password prompt. But most likely this will keep repeating without authorising you. After a bit of head scratching and looking around I found out that that is because mod_wsgi requires to pass authorization through to the WSGI application by means of WSGIPassAuthorization On in the appropriate Apache configuration file.

After all this works, you can configure a new Mylyn repository within Eclipse (Windows > Show View > Other > Tasks > Task Repositories). If you then click the icon that stands for create new repository it will present you with a configuration window for adding new repositories. Select the Trac option, followed by Next. In the Server field you can just add http://trac.example.com/project1, followed by a, for you, descriptive Label for this repository. The User ID and Password are those you use to log into the Trac instance. Under Additional Settings is an option for selecting the Access Type, make sure you select XML-RPC here. Ensure that Task Editor Settings has TracWiki selected. Now, by selecting Validate Settings, you ought to see a message stating “Authentication credentials are valid” at the top of the window.

That’s it. You can now follow the Mylyn User Guide.

Syndicated 2009-09-25 13:08:36 from In Nomine - The Lotus Land

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