This is a re-occuring problem for me, mostly it is suddenly gone, or (because of frustration) I switch distro. Now after updating to jaunty the problem is back. Sometimes I loose the ability to change focus from the active windows. I cannot give focus on any other windows, generating popups via alt-f2/alt-f1 do not work. read more
Monthly Archives: April 2009
Is this a real leak or not?
April 20, 2009 – 4:10 pm
==29453== 338,848 (139,776 direct, 199,072 indirect) bytes in 182 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 13,698 of 13,705 ==29453== at 0x4C266E1: realloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:429) ==29453== by 0x8A5E05B: (within /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1.3.0) ==29453== by 0x8A4EE6C: (within /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1.3.0) ==29453== by 0x8A501F9: FcConfigSubstituteWithPat (in /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1.3.0) ==29453== by 0x8A5B3F4: FcFontRenderPrepare (in /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1.3.0) ==29453== by 0x52682EB: (within /usr/lib/libpangoft2-1.0.so.0.2202.0) ==29453== by 0x80D2D1D: (within read more
Remembered why I disliked apple
April 16, 2009 – 4:39 pm
In less then 2 weeks, the ipod touch n ow refuses to sync with itunes.. it hangs on “synchronizing contact information” Fun.
Great Gtodo review
April 13, 2009 – 9:08 pm
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-excellent-todo-list-apps-for-linux-that-you-might-not-have-heard-of/ given I haven’t worked on it in years.
Lyric editing in gmpc
April 13, 2009 – 8:13 pm
I just added this new feature: 1. The lyric The lyric is not available, lets enter one 2. Click the edit button You can now edit the text above the buttons 3. Enter the lyric If you are done editing the text click save You can undo it at any time by pressing “cancel” 4. read more
GMPC Review
April 10, 2009 – 12:00 pm
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1431400/a_review_of_gmpc_for_mpd_music_player.html?cat=15
IPod touch as agenda
April 9, 2009 – 10:18 pm
It was not my prefered choice, but I got a iPod touch as agenda. The integration with my mac is good,very pleasent to work with. That said it has a lot of failed oppertunities some that will be fixed in version 3, others not. One of the thing I realy miss is lack of the read more
Grind My Gears: Brasero idiocity
April 2, 2009 – 3:22 pm
This, today, totally pissed me off. I wanted to burn a file on a cd, so in nautilus I typed burn:// added the files, pressed burned. This nicely stopped with the message: BraseroGenisoimage stopping Session error : The file is not stored locally (brasero_burn_record burn.c:2650) Well I got a few things to say about that. read more