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ACTA / SOPA / PIPA

LeonB — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:13:30 +0000

Iedereen die het nog niet gedaan heeft: onderteken de ACTA petitie nu!

vim on github!

LeonB — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 22:09:27 +0000

Vim is now on a github repository. Check: https://github.com/LeonB/vim

Problems with Zend Studio on 64 bit Linux

LeonB — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 07:52:55 +0000

When removing Wine, lib32nss-mdns got uninstalled and Zend Studio refused to connect with any FTP server. After reinstalling the package everything worked again!

Upgrading wordpreess

LeonB — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 07:59:09 +0000

I had some small troubles with updating this wordpress blog. It kept wanting to upgrade via ftp/sftp. But I found this great post which has a solution.

Using sqlite in Netbeans 6.7

LeonB — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:28:24 +0000

I’ve tried to use sqlite some time ago in Netbeans but I couldn’t get it working. Bot I stumbled upon a blogpost which works perfectly!

Installing non-free plugins in Jaunty (9.04)

LeonB — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 10:29:20 +0000

Make sure you have the medibuntu repository enabled.

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aptitude install non-free-codecs

Now I can play mms:// streams.

Images & why you need com_resize

LeonB — Sat, 24 May 2008 21:37:18 +0000

I the release post of com_resized there was asked the question why one should use com_resize. There are three reasons to use it:

The generated images aren the size you want them to be. So they're smaller of size than the original images.
You won't get any ugly resized images (see the example below).
It works with remote images. So you can link to an image one someone else's blog and they get resized to the size you want + cached. So that way they get loaded from your own server: so faster.

No more ugly resized images:

The one on the left is without com_resize. The one on the right is _with_ com_resize. If you don't see any difference. Your browser is probably doing some fancy stuff with the image. In that case you don't need com_resize. But maybe the readers of your blog do!

For the people who don't see any difference (leave a comment with your OS + browser, please!) I have attached a screenshot. Made in IE6, so the font is ugly too

bt45′s and tire pressure

LeonB — Mon, 19 May 2008 13:22:57 +0000

I always forget what tire pressure my Bridgestone battlax BT45's have. So now to never forget:

2.5 & 2.8

(front & rear)

pushing all git remote repositories

LeonB — Mon, 19 May 2008 13:13:20 +0000

I'm now working on a project that is hosted on github AND rubyforge. And lazy as I am, I don't want to do:

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git push origin
git push rubyforge

That's why I create a handy shortcut for it and placed it in my ~/.bashrc:

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function git-push-all() {
for remote in `git remote`; do
git push $remote
done
}

What it does: it lists all remote repositories linked to that git project and pushes them all. Usage:

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git-push-all

Don't get confused with "git-push --all"! That's something completely different!

Aaahhh

LeonB — Fri, 02 May 2008 14:44:20 +0000

30 April was queens day (?) and 1 may was labourday / Ascension Day. So I didn't have to go to work. But when I came home (I live 100km from my work or so) I noticed I forgot to pack the adapter of my notebook. I had 1,5 hours of power left. So I checked my mail and hibernated it. *Sigh* two days without hacking any software... And to make things worse. I now have my adapter back, but I was stupid enough to rip the coax to pieces. After work, first stop: hardware store! I must have Internet tonight!

com_resize on wordpress plugins

LeonB — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:24:56 +0000

Because I expect a huge, huge demand of my com_resize plugin, I have put it on the wordpress site

Now I hope it gets approved.

Some Wine and Hardy

LeonB — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:57:22 +0000

Wine still segfaults on me with Hardy Heron! I'm gonna look if this still works:

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Does not work (segfaulting):
mkdir ~/src
cd ~/src
sudo -i
apt-get build-dep wine && apt-get source --build wine
This does work:
mkdir ~/src
cd ~/src
sudo -i
apt-get source wine
cd wine-0.9.55
./configure
make depend && make
sudo make install
(for me)

Where am I going to host my project?

LeonB — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:59:50 +0000

In my previous blog item I asked the question: where am I going to host my (git) project? John Nunemaker mentioned github for hosting git projects. Maybe I'm gonna look at that when I'm done with my house.