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Running vmware 6.0 on gentoo amd64 |
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Written by Randy Carver
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Friday, 19 October 2007 10:49 |
One of the projects I'm involved in at work is using... windows <gasp>. Actually its a Service Tag implementation for windows to allow datacenters to inventory and manage their assets. So, I've got a windows install on my development box now. But I'm not really happy with multi boot (two flavors of gentoo, occasionally ubuntu, and 3 flavors of windows). So I'm evaluating vmware 6 on my gentoo box. The install went fairly painlessly, except for problems with switching to full screen (I run a triple head box). So here's what I did:
First off, as of this writing it is still unstable, so you'll have to add a couple of things to your package.keywords file.
After that it seemed to work well, but when I tried to switch it to full screen I got the following error:
undefined symbol: ViewAutoDrawer_SetOffset
A quick google search showed that the problem is in the x11-libs/libview package and it was fixed in a 0.6.0 version. only 0.5.6-rc1 was in portage, so I checked overlays.gentoo.org, and sure 'nuff there's 0.6.0. So layman -a vmware. Stop the vmware services (and client), emerge -pv libview to check, and then emerge it for realy and I'm in business. I can add all three screens in full screen vmware mode :)
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Last Updated on Friday, 19 October 2007 16:54 |
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Written by Randy Carver
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Friday, 23 November 2007 06:51 |
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Sansa on GentooI recently picked up a 2G Sansa mp3 player for REAL CHEAP ($30 with shipping). And so I've been working on integrating it into my desktop. Originally I was hoping to use it with my wifes iMac and iTunes, but it looks like that would be more work than I want, and I promised my wife I wouldn't hack her machine (well, not too much anyways ;) ).
I have some mp3's on my desktop, but since I mostly listen to online radio streams while coding, I don't have a lot. So I started ripping my entire collection of CD's with GRIP, which has been INCREDIBLY easy. I just set it to automatically rip on the insert of a new cd, eject when done, and start feeding my box CD's. I really need to double check my tags now, because some of the artists end up in genre's I don't necessarily agree with (e.g. Gipsy Kings end up sometimes in Rock and sometimes in Other - and I think I'd like them in world). So for tag updates I've got EasyTAG. For my music manager/listener I'm using rhythmbox, development seems to be active and there are relatively frequent updates. To convert playlists I modified a gawk script called m3u2pla-awk. I then wrote a script to sync to my sansa using rsync:
#!/bin/bash
echo "mounting /mnt/usb"
mount /mnt/usb
echo "syncing contents to parsing directory"
rsync -rv --delete /home/rcarver/sansa/ /home/rcarver/.sansa_parse/
echo "converting playlists"
find /home/rcarver/.sansa_parse -name "*.m3u" -exec m3u2pla-awk {} \;
echo "removing m3u playlists"
find /home/rcarver/.sansa_parse -name "*.m3u" -delete
echo "syncing parsing directories to sansa"
rsync -rv --ignore-existing --delete /home/rcarver/.sansa_parse/music/ /mnt/usb/music/
rsync -rv --ignore-existing --delete /home/rcarver/.sansa_parse/PLAYLISTS/ /mnt/usb/PLAYLISTS/
echo "unmounting /mnt/usb"
umount /mnt/usb
echo "done"
Viola - its integrated :)
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Joomla xml-rpc metaweblog implementation for ScribeFire |
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Written by Randy Carver
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Saturday, 20 October 2007 12:37 |
I'm posting this with ScribeFire, I've been working on getting ScribeFire working with Joomla 1.5's xmlrpc modules.
While the current (RC3) implementation of joomla xmlrpc services supports the blogger api, ScribeFire's blogger client implementation is specific to google blogger blogs. This is because it relies on a google only authentication scheme. The ScribeFire code is a little hairy, and I know that the metaweblog implementation works (I use it for my work blog). So I started working on the metaweblog api for joomla 1.5.
Right now I've got posting and retrieving working, I've got to get editing and getting single posts working. And then I need to test with a couple of other blogging clients and I'll release it.
I'm not sure if it'll get into the joomla codebase. I suspect the gates are already closed 1.5 features, but its possible that this'll get in. Either that or I'll release it from joomlaforge. Look for more info here in the next week or so.
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Last Updated on Saturday, 20 October 2007 18:55 |
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Written by Randy Carver
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Friday, 23 November 2007 08:26 |
OK, so its not like I've got enough other stuff to do :)... I've been using my sansa mp3 player and I'm pretty happy with it. I installed rockbox, and removed it. Didn't like the UI and the mp3 player is used by everyone in my family, and the UI (ok, maybe its just an I ;) ) exposes things I don't want my sons to use, and my wife doesn't need to see (just show me how I can play the damn songs). Anyways, thats a different post.
I was listening to some songs and thought it'd be really nice to get a group of songs organized by Beats Per Minute (BPM) for skiing and working out. So... away I go. I won't bore you with ALL the links I found (besides, I don't remember where they all are - really should blog them as I'm surfing them) But I've kinda settled on bpmdj.
BPMDJ seems to be updated pretty regularly, and has a fairly active community. On the downside it uses QT (forget the old pre-gpl licensing concerns, its pretty big and I don't need something pretty big on my machine to upgrade regularly). But it appears it will do what I want, generate playlists and id3 tags with BPM information.
I found the ProAudioOverlay gentoo overlay, syned it in with layman, and away we go :). media-sound/bpmdj is hard masked (with the comment -
<pre># World's most fucked up build system [tm]
# If autofoo is too complicated, than what's this? lol!</pre>
Doesn't look great, but muddle on, I added it to package.unmask and package.keywords. And lets start the emerge.
Build failed:
In file included from player.h++:4,
from player.c++:26:
ui-player.h:13:36: error: Qt3Support/Q3ButtonGroup: No such file or directory
In file included from bpm-analyzer.h++:4,
from ui-player.h:36,
from player.h++:4,
from player.c++:26:
ui-bpmcounter.h:13:36: error: Qt3Support/Q3ProgressBar: No such file or directory
In file included from capacity-widget.h++:1,
from ui-player.h:37,
from player.h++:4,
from player.c++:26:
ui-capacity.h:13:42: error: Qt3Support/Q3MimeSourceFactory: No such file or directory
In file included from about.h++:2,
from player.c++:33:
ui-about.h:14:33: error: Qt3Support/Q3TextEdit: No such file or directory
hmm... looks liike a qt3 qt4 problem.
Boys are up, time to eat. This'll have to wait - look for a part to
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Last Updated on Friday, 23 November 2007 15:28 |
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