Name: John Levon
Member since: 2000-04-14 14:10:55
Last Login: 2010-02-09 18:47:56
Homepage: http://www.movementarian.org/
Notes:
See the project descriptions below, and my homepage,
for a description of what open source stuff I'm involved
in.
movement @ irc.freenode.net, irc.oftc.net
leader@movementarian.org.
Changing liferea keyboard shortcuts
Liferea has no keyboard shortcut editor itself, but "Toggle unread status" demands the wrist-breaking chord action of Control-U. It expects you to be able to edit the shortcuts via the editable menu feature of GTK+.
Unfortunately that's disabled on all modern GNOME installs, and there's no UI for re-enabling it. As usual, gconf-editor to the rescue. The key you need to change is /desktop/gnome/interface/can_change_accels. After re-starting Liferea, you can then edit via hovering over the menu item and pressing the combination. Of course, this in itself is buggy: if it clashes with a menu accelerator (as 'r' is), it will perform that action instead.
It's simpler to directly edit the accels file in your Liferea dot dir.
Syndicated 2010-01-31 17:26:00 (Updated 2010-01-31 17:30:24) from John Levon
Epson all-in-ones: avoid like the plague
Browsing the net, you might get the impression that Epson Stylus All-in-ones are well supported under Linux. Unfortunately this is not the case. The pipslite driver you have to install is extremely flaky, and Fedora SELinux doesn't work properly with it. There's no "draft" mode for some bizarre reason; printing is extremely slow and often randomly cancels half-printed jobs due to USB resetsSyndicated 2010-01-26 23:36:00 (Updated 2010-01-26 23:51:30) from John Levon
Setting up JACK on Fedora 12
Audacity is somewhat of a broken joke these days, so I needed to use Ardour to record. And that meant setting up JACK. Since JACK insists on exclusivity, I also needed to route pulseaudio through JACK so I could use other apps at the same time. Unfortunately, this is a bit of a pig to figure out. I hacked it as follows:
First edit /etc/pulse/default.pa, you need to add two lines:
load-module module-jack-sink
load-module module-jack-source
amixer -c 0 sset 'Input Source' 'Line'
nohup jackd -d alsa &
sleep 5
/usr/bin/pulseaudio --start "$@"
Syndicated 2010-01-26 17:28:00 (Updated 2010-01-26 17:46:23) from John Levon
Liferea strict feed validation tip
New versions of Liferea refuse to parse any feed that fails to validate, even for relatively "minor" problems (the libxml2 recovery facility is no longer used; besides, it abandons the rest of the feed when it hits such problems). I don't want to use Google Reader, since I don't like the interface.
Typically bad feeds have things like high-bit chars or bare ampersands. Thankfully, there's a "conversion filter" feature that you can use to work around the bad feeds. On the two bad feeds, I run this filter:
[moz@pent ~]$ cat bin/fix-ampersands
#!/bin/bash
sed 's/\o226/&/g' | sed 's/& /\&/g' | sed 's/\o243/GBP/g'
Syndicated 2010-01-17 16:33:00 (Updated 2010-01-17 17:08:35) from John Levon
The main indicators of egotism as I intend it here are are loud self-display, insecurity, constant approval-seeking, overinflating one’s accomplishments, touchiness about slights, and territorial twitchiness about one’s expertise. My claim is that egotism is a disease of the incapable, and vanishes or nearly vanishes among the super-capable.
I’m the crippled kid who became a black-belt martial artist and teacher of martial artists. I’ve made the New York Times bestseller list as a writer. You can hardly use a browser, a cellphone, or a game console without relying on my code. I’ve been a session musician on two records. I’ve blown up the software industry once, reinvented the hacker culture twice, and am without doubt one of the dozen most famous geeks alive.
No prizes for guessing who this was.
Syndicated 2009-11-10 16:27:00 (Updated 2009-11-10 16:30:05) from John Levon
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