Advogato blog for firefly

26 Jul 2006

Wed, 26 Jul 2006 19:55:49 GMT

Here is a PHP stylesheet for a2ps.

Why isn't it included in the standard a2ps distribution, I don't know.

Just download the php.ssh file and copy it into /usr/share/a2ps/sheets/.

20 Jul 2006

Thu, 20 Jul 2006 19:49:45 GMT

The GSmartMix blog is at http://gsmartmix.blogspot.com/, of course.

20 Jul 2006

Thu, 20 Jul 2006 19:38:58 GMT

GSmartMix

Benjamin Otte told me on #freedesktop that there's this SoC project called GSmartMix that might end up doing what I want. Stefan Kost (the mentor for the project) told me a short bit later that the first basic demo is done and that they want feedback.

Links:

GSmartMix blog

GSmartMix on live.gnome.org

19 Jul 2006

Wed, 19 Jul 2006 22:37:16 GMT

Does anybody know of a list of D-Bus events it would be useful to subscribe to? I am thinking of events that say "network is down/up", "sound has been muted", ...

There probably isn't a D-Bus event for "sound has been muted", but I think there should be. Audio/video players and (some) games should pause themselves when they receive that event. I don't think they should unpause themselves automatically when the sound gets unmuted, though.

30 Mar 2006

Thu, 30 Mar 2006 11:48:53 GMT

Coroutines/continuations

Mike: man setcontext.

29 Mar 2006

Wed, 29 Mar 2006 16:34:45 GMT

Breezy AMD64 qemage

The AMD64 Breezy qemu image I prepared is ready for download at free.oszoo.org.

28 Mar 2006

Tue, 28 Mar 2006 17:03:39 GMT

Madness[1]

firefly@charybdis:~ $ man perltoc | wc
Reformatting perltoc(1), please wait...
  12228   37991  385536

 firefly@charybdis:~ $ man gcc | wc
Reformatting gcc(1), please wait...
  10475   60878  494066

 firefly@charybdis:~ $ man perlfunc | wc
Reformatting perlfunc(1), please wait...
   6655   42081  345448

 firefly@charybdis:~ $ man mplayer | wc
Reformatting mplayer(1), please wait...
   6498   32376  297288

 firefly@charybdis:~ $ man smb.conf | wc
Reformatting smb.conf(5), please wait...
   6252   39674  290421

 firefly@charybdis:~ $ man ex | wc
Reformatting ex(1posix), please wait...
   5098   33570  235212

 firefly@charybdis:~ $ man bash | wc
Reformatting bash(1), please wait...
   4818   36418  275736

 firefly@charybdis:~ $ man perldiag | wc
Reformatting perldiag(1), please wait...
   4041   27130  192905

 firefly@charybdis:~ $ man lsof | wc
Reformatting lsof(8), please wait...
   2531   17406  132807

 firefly@charybdis:~ $ man 5 terminfo | wc
Reformatting terminfo(5), please wait...
   2090   13421  129703
firefly@charybdis:~ $

 firefly@charybdis:~ $ man gpg | wc
Reformatting gpg(1), please wait...
   2035   11708  102345

 firefly@charybdis:~ $ man sh | wc
Reformatting sh(1posix), please wait...
   1172    8335   60875

 firefly@charybdis:~ $ man cat | wc
Reformatting cat(1), please wait...
     74     218    1838

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[1] Rob Pike and Brian W. Kernighan, "Program Design in the UNIX Environment"
(Derived from the talk by Rob Pike, ``Cat -v considered harmful''), Bell Labs Tech. J., 1984.

16 Mar 2006

Thu, 16 Mar 2006 21:00:32 GMT

Clarification

Yes, I know that the only really new thing here are the symlinks instead of the union mount. Just wanted to make that clear.

16 Mar 2006

Thu, 16 Mar 2006 12:59:42 GMT

David Zeuthen stole my idea yesterday...

...and I only got it ten minutes ago. Damn, that man is fast!

16 Mar 2006

Thu, 16 Mar 2006 12:54:57 GMT

Intelligent Directories

Basically, what I've just described is "just" a variant of "intelligent directories". Why should directories just be passive containers? Why not allow extra work to take place behind the scenes when certain magic directories get updated?

I hate configuration files and I hate programs that I manually have to run to catch updates.

I want intelligent directories that automatically email/rsync/backup when I copy/move files to them. I want intelligent directories I can drop fonts or video codecs into.

And I want intelligent directories I can drop applications in.